malayalambhakthiradio

malayalambhakthiradio is at 292 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.

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.

malayalambhakthiradio streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where India's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

The audio comes from stream.zeno.fm, and 108 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.