asal-fm

asal-fm sits in the tail of India's 565 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against asal-fm is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 161 stations broadcasting in Tamil behind it. asal-fm is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

Tamil radio in this directory sits largely in Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka, with 169 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

109 of India's entries are served from stream.zeno.fm, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.