Harties FM

Position 57 of 100 puts this station in the middle of South Africa'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.

South Africa carries 12 Afrikaans stations in the directory against a English majority. Harties FM is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Afrikaans 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.

2000's is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in South Africa uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Twice the local median and then some: 320 kbps where South Africa's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

Its audio comes straight from s5.radio.co, an address unique to this entry in South Africa'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.