S Janaki

In India's ordering this is number 308 of 565, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Broadcasting in Tamil from India, alongside 160 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.

Tamil radio in this directory sits largely in Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka, with 169 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Nothing else in India's listing leads with janaki. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 64 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.

Its audio comes from psrlive2.listenon.in. Three other stations in India stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.