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Radio broadcasting in Sri Lanka dates to 1923. Radio broadcasting, like other forms of media in Sri Lanka , is generally divided along linguistic lines with state and private media operators providing services in Sinhala , Tamil , and English language.
This radio station was launched in June 2009 to fulfill the media requirements of the Tamil speaking community within Sri Lanka. Furthermore, ITN Ltd commenced transmission of a second television channel, Vasantham TV on 25 June 2009.
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), formerly Radio Ceylon, is the oldest radio station in Asia, and was founded as Colombo Radio in 1925. Edward Harper who was then the Chief Engineer at the Telegraph Department in 1921, was the first person who initiated experimental broadcasts in Ceylon. The first-ever broadcast on an experimental ...
Mass media in Sri Lanka. Mass media of Sri Lanka consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. State and private media operators provide services in the main languages Sinhala, Tamil and English. The government owns two major TV stations, radio networks operated by the Sri ...
Gold FM, Sun FM, Sooriyan FM, Shaa FM. History. First air date. July 1, 1998. Links. Website. www .hirufm .lk. Hiru FM is a Sinhala radio station in Sri Lanka owned by ABC Radio Networks. It covers the whole island.
FM Derana is Free-to-air Sinhala radio channel in Sri Lanka. Established in March 2009, FM Derana broadcasts 24 hours a day and it covers over 95% of the Island. Designed to appeal to a broad cross-section of listeners, FM Derana is leveraged on the strength and success of TV Derana, a strategic consolidation that will revolutionize the media landscape with its simple yet highly entertaining ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists allege ...
SLRC broadcasts its channels in both VHF and UHF frequencies in Sri Lanka. Currently, all of the network's services are only available by analog transmission. But there are plans to upgrade to digital broadcasting. From 2011 Kokavil began to broadcast in DVB-T2 for the North area in Sri Lanka. There were plans to transmit DVB-T2 digital ...