Kaathoram Live

This is one of the quieter entries in India's listing, at 475 of 565. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Kaathoram Live 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.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 56 entries in India broadcast in Malayalam, against a listing whose commonest language is Hindi.

The Malayalam shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Malayalam entries are concentrated in Bahrain. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Its audio comes straight from c30.radioboss.fm, 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.