Jakaranda FM

Jakaranda FM is at 29 in a listing of 100. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Jakaranda FM transmits from South Africa, where English leads the listing, and broadcasts in Afrikaans, which 12 of the country's stations use.

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.

Jakaranda FM is the only station in South Africa whose first tag is 80s, out of 100 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in South Africa does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only 80s station.

28 of South Africa's entries are served from edge.iono.fm, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.