TMS Radio

TMS Radio sits in the tail of India's 565 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 161 entries in India broadcast in Tamil, against a listing whose commonest language is Hindi.

The shelf for the language holds 169 stations, led by Canada. A station like this one broadcasting from India is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Only three entries in India put south india first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where India's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

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.