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Rank 528 of 565 in India. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

Broadcasting in Malayalam from India, alongside 55 other stations there doing the same. Hindi is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

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.

Twice the local median and then some: 320 kbps where India's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: India's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

Its audio comes straight from 443-1.autopo.st, an address unique to this entry in India's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.