Radio Gambaru

Radio Gambaru sits in the tail of the United States' 1,481 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.

Radio Gambaru broadcasts in Japanese from the United States, and Japanese is not among the six languages the country's listing counts. That does not mean it is the only one: it means the country's Japanese stations are too few to reach the hub's own breakdown, which is the sharpest kind of minority entry this directory can record.

The Japanese shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Japanese entries are concentrated in Japan, Canada and France. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

The audio comes from stream.zeno.fm, and 23 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.