World Gospel Radio

World Gospel Radio 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.

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

There is no Afrikaans shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

The christian corner of South Africa's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of South Africa's listing without being one of its outliers.

Its audio comes straight from dn-radio.co.za, 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.