All India Radio AIR Punjabi

All India Radio AIR Punjabi sits at 165 of 565 in India's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. All India Radio AIR Punjabi transmits from India, where Hindi leads the listing, and broadcasts in Punjabi, which 14 of the country's stations use.

Punjabi is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The audio comes from air.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com, and 30 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.