Desi World Radio

Desi World Radio is at 251 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. Desi World Radio 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on India's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from stream.zenolive.com, an address three other entries in India use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.