Vivid Bharti

Near the top of India's list, at 3 of 565. Positions this high tend to be stable between snapshots, which is more than can be said for the middle of a long national listing.

Vivid Bharti carries 259 recorded opens in the public directory, which puts it among the small group of streams that directory clients open constantly. Counts at this level are rare: the great majority of the 14,425 stations with pages here are in single or double figures.

At 93 kbps, this sits below most of India's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream address on this entry points at air.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com, which is where 30 other stations in India are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.