KS Chitra

Position 234 of 565 puts this station in the middle of India's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 161 stations broadcasting in Tamil behind it. KS Chitra 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.

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

Nothing else in India's listing leads with chitra. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Where India's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.