Radio Mirchi Bay Area

Radio Mirchi Bay Area broadcasts in Hindi from the United States, and Hindi 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 Hindi stations are too few to reach the hub's own breakdown, which is the sharpest kind of minority entry this directory can record.

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

Nothing else in the United States' listing leads with bollywood. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 53 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.