Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation

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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Radio broadcaster (Corporation ( public service ))
reception analog terrestrial , web radio
Reception area Sri Lanka
Start of transmission December 16, 1925
List of radio stations
Website

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation , SLBC for short ( Sinhala : ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාව , Śrī Laṅkā Guvan Viduli Saṃsthāva ; Tamil : இலங்கை ஒலிபரப்புக் கூட்டுத்தாபனம் , Ilaṅkai Oliparappuk Kūṭṭuttāpaṉam ) is the public radio broadcaster of Sri Lanka .

history

The SLBC's radio service is the oldest in South Asia. It started as Colombo Radio on December 16, 1925 , allegedly with a transmitter salvaged from a German submarine. During the Second World War, Lord Mountbatten had the British soldiers station Radio SEAC (South-East Asian Command) relocate from New Delhi first to Kandy and then to Colombo . Its transmission systems were handed over to Radio Ceylon in 1949 . Under the Colombo Plan , Radio Ceylon received support from Australia and for the next 30 years it was one of the most popular in the region. In 1967 Radio Ceylon was given the legal form of a corporation and with the creation of the Republic in 1972 the name Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation .

Programs

At the national level, six programs are being distributed - 3 in Sinhala, 2 in Tamil and one in English:

  • Sinhala National Service ( ස්වදේශිය / Svadēśiya)
  • Sinhala Commercial Service ( වෙළඳ / Veḷan̆da)
  • City FM
  • Tamil National Service
  • Tamil Commercial Service ( தென்றல் / Teṉṟal)
  • Radio Sri Lanka

In addition, there are 4 regional and 5 municipal programs as well as a foreign service (mainly for South India).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VS Sambandan: For that old magic: Radio Ceylon turns 80 . In: Frontline . 2006 ( online ).
  2. ^ Lord Louis Mountbatten and Wartime Radio in Ceylon . 2013 ( online ).
  3. ^ Radio SEAC Ceylon . 2008 ( online ).
  4. ^ Ivan Corea: Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka . 2005 ( online ).
  5. ^ Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation Act (No. 37 of 1966)