42 stations · 14 countries · original notes from 369.FM
Asia on 369.FM is not one sound. India alone could be a site: AIR’s public layer, Bollywood FM brands, and Tamil/Malayalam stations. Japan and Korea show international public services next to city pop FM. Singapore formats English radio with engineer-like clarity. Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand are commercial-pop cultures with language splits. China is represented by an English international service, which we say out loud so nobody thinks it is a Beijing traffic station. The honest way to listen is to pick a country page and stay there for an evening, not to mash “Asia” as if it were a genre.