Akashvani Kothagudem

Akashvani Kothagudem is at 277 in a listing of 565. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Akashvani Kothagudem transmits from India, where Hindi leads the listing, and broadcasts in Telugu, which 19 of the country's stations use.

There is no Telugu shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

Akashvani Kothagudem publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The audio comes from radio.wavespb.com, and 14 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.