Lekker FM

In South Africa's ordering this is number 32 of 100, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

South Africa carries 12 Afrikaans stations in the directory against a English majority. Lekker 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.

Local 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.

Across every country, Lekker FM is 7 of the 27 stations leading with local, by the same open count the country list uses.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on South Africa's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.