Radio Rosestad 100.6 FM

Radio Rosestad 100.6 FM sits in the tail of South Africa's 100 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

South Africa carries 12 Afrikaans stations in the directory against a English majority. Radio Rosestad 100.6 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.

Among 100 stations in South Africa here, this is the only one that puts afrikaans first. The afrikaans rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream address on this entry points at edge.iono.fm, which is where 27 other stations in South Africa are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.