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Postal Service: Sri Lanka Post. Radio broadcast stations: AM 15, FM 54, SW 5 Television broadcast stations: 19 (2009) Satellite Earth Stations located: Padukka and Colombo. Internet Service Providers: 9 Country code / Top-level domain: +94/LK
Along with their sister channel, Vettri TV, [2] the Voice of Asia Network (Pvt) began broadcasting Siyatha TV on September 17, 2009 on E32 UHF. [3] [4]Siyatha TV is the first Sri Lankan terrestrial channel to go simultaneously on satellite through their own DTH platform.
In 2007, Sri Lanka's first uninterrupted 24-hour Sinhala movie channel, 'City Hitz was established. [6] In 2008, Dialog TV launched ‘Channel C’, the first-ever 24-hour local music channel. [7] A software upgrade was tested on 8 June, although it only updated to the June 1, 2006 software, which is included on all decoders sold from January 2007.
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.
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation – Live Streaming; Sinhala Radio Live Streaming – Test. Archived 18 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine. SLBC-creating new waves of history (archived) Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka (archived) Lata Mangeshkar and Radio Ceylon, in the Marathi language.Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
Sri Lanka's second state-owned TV station - Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) - was established by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Act No. 6 of 1982. [3] SLRC started broadcasting on 15 February 1982. [2] The Act required the SLRC to maintain taste and decency and not to incite crime and disorder or cause religious or public offence.
FM Derana is a free-to-air Sinhala radio channel in Sri Lanka.Established in March 2009, FM Derana broadcasts 24 hours a day and covers over 95% of the island. Designed to appeal to a broad cross-section of listeners, FM Derana leverages the strength and success of TV Derana.
Star TV Lanka, Satnet was a pay TV satellite provider based in Sri Lanka. A fully owned subsidiary of DishTV India , Dish TV Sri Lanka was launched in 2015. [ 1 ] However, the company ceased its operations in Sri Lanka due to heavy losses in 2019.