Vanavilfm - Radio Maestro

Vanavilfm - Radio Maestro 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.

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.

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.

Retro is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in India uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

192 kbps, which puts Vanavilfm - Radio Maestro above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in India runs at.

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.