vividhbharathitamil

Rank 549 of 565 in India. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

vividhbharathitamil broadcasts in Tamil from India. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Hindi leads, but not a small one: 161 stations in India in the directory carry Tamil, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

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.

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 audio comes from air.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com, and 30 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.