Pew Hits Desi

Out of 565 entries in India, this one ranks 62. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Pew Hits Desi has 28 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

English does not make India's list of commonest broadcast languages, which the hub caps at six. A station like this one is invisible on its own country page's language chart and perfectly visible on the English shelf, which is the argument for having both.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from India is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

The stream is served from pewhits.duckdns.org, an address one other entry in India uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.