Radio TMK

Radio TMK sits in the tail of Kazakhstan's 24 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.

Radio TMK broadcasts in Tatar from Kazakhstan, where the directory records only one station doing so. Kazakhstan's listing is otherwise led by Kazakh, so this is a genuinely unusual entry on its own national dial rather than one of a set.

Tatar is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Among 24 stations in Kazakhstan here, this is the only one that puts etno first. The etno rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Kazakhstan's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.