KJ Yesudas Malayalam radio

In India's ordering this is number 183 of 565, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

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.

128 kbps matches India's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.zeno.fm, which is where 108 other stations in India are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Of everything the directory lists in India, the entry this page reads closest to is Radio Malayalam 98.6 FM, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. On recorded opens this entry sits higher in the country list than the other one does.