Warna 942

Out of 25 entries in Singapore, this one ranks 5. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The interesting fact about this entry is the pairing. Malay is not what Singapore's dial mostly speaks, and the directory has two Malay stations registered in the country against a majority of English.

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.

Melisten is one of Singapore's headline genres in this directory, and Warna 942 is one of 12 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 15 other stations in Singapore 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 Singapore's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.