Mirchi FM

This is one of the quieter entries in South Africa's listing, at 61 of 100. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Mirchi FM is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Its audio comes from vm65162.streamerr.co. Five other stations in South Africa stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Mirchi FM publishes at app.megazone.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.