Radio Panjabi

Radio Panjabi is deep in New Zealand's listing, at 53 of 67. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With one recorded open, Radio Panjabi sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in New Zealand's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The folk corner of New Zealand's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where New Zealand'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 straight from s20.reliastream.com, an address unique to this entry in New Zealand's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.