RIA 897

At position 24 of 25, this is one of the stations in Singapore that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Malay from Singapore, one of only two such entries the directory holds for the country. The national listing leads with English, which is what makes this worth pointing at.

Malay 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.

RIA 897 leads with melisten, a tag 12 other stations in Singapore use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 15 other stations in Singapore 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.