BritAsia Radio Punjabi

At position 370 of 565, this is one of the stations in India that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

The open count against BritAsia Radio Punjabi is four, 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.

This is a Punjabi station in a country whose directory presence is led by Hindi. 14 entries in India broadcast in Punjabi, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

There is no Punjabi 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.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for India. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

Its audio comes straight from s4.radio.co, an address unique to this entry in India's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.