Jothi FM

This is one of the quieter entries in Sri Lanka's listing, at 30 of 39. 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.

This is a English station in a country whose directory presence is led by Sinhala. Four entries in Sri Lanka broadcast in English, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Its audio comes from radio-station.hadawatha.lk. One other station in Sri Lanka streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's site is at jothi.appj.uk, which sits under the .uk country domain rather than Sri Lanka's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.