RED FM Toronto 88.9 FM

This is one of the quieter entries in India's listing, at 393 of 565. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

India carries 14 Punjabi stations in the directory against a Hindi majority. RED FM Toronto 88.9 FM is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

There is no Punjabi shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on India's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

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.

RED FM Toronto 88.9 FM streams from ice9.securenetsystems.net. No other station in India is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears 11 times in total.