FM 101 Larkana

Position 12 of 41 puts this station in the middle of Pakistan's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

FM 101 Larkana has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Pakistan on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Pakistan's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

Its audio comes straight from whmsonic.radio.gov.pk:8050, an address unique to this entry in Pakistan'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.

Their site is radio.gov.pk, a domain registered in Pakistan. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.

The nearest thing to this entry in Pakistan is FM 93 Mianwali. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: one hundred and one here and ninety-three there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Sindh, that one under Punjab. The two streams are served from different addresses, whmsonic.radio.gov.pk:8050 for this one and whmsonic.radio.gov.pk:8028 for the other. On the dial they are recorded at one hundred and one FM and ninety-three FM.