Radio Punjabi Virsa

Position 305 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 carries 14 Punjabi stations in the directory against a Hindi majority. Radio Punjabi Virsa is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Punjabi is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Radio Punjabi Virsa streams at 96 kbps, under India's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Radio Punjabi Virsa streams from node-15.zeno.fm. No other station in India is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears two times in total.