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Hiru FM; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Broadcast area: Sri Lanka: Frequency: 96.1 MHz; 96.3 MHz; ... Hiru FM is a Sinhala radio station in Sri Lanka owned by ABC Radio Networks ...
[2] 95% of the country received FM transmissions by 1999. [2] The government maintained a monopoly on radio broadcasting until the early 1990s when private radio stations were allowed to broadcast. Today there are numerous private radio stations but the state-owned stations continue to dominate the market.
The programming of the radio station includes talk shows, and Sinhala and Hindi top hits. [3] Sirasa FM is the first private media organisation to be allowed to broadcast news in Sri Lanka. [ 4 ] However, Sirasa FM was banned broadcasting news after the station broadcast a false report of a nonexistent countrywide curfew. [ 5 ]
Shaa FM (Sinhala: ෂා එෆ්එම්) is a Sinhala radio channel station in Sri Lanka owned by ABC Radio Networks. [1] It covers the whole island. [2] This radio channel is the first-ever radio channel made for Sri Lankan youth society. Shaa Fm was started in 2002, Sri Lanka. [3] [4] [5]
Sooriyan FM is a privately owned Tamil radio station in Sri Lanka run by ABC Radio Networks started in 1998. It covers the whole island. It covers the whole island. The network runs sister stations Hiru FM and Shaa FM in Sinhala and Gold FM and Sun FM in English.
Press freedom is a major concern in Sri Lanka. Both sides in the war make efforts to silence inconvenient reporters. Around 15 reporters received death threats from one faction or the other in 2004 [2] The assassinated reporter Aiyathurai Nadesan, correspondent in Batticaloa for several Tamil media stated just prior to his assassination in 2005:
Source: Associated Press. By Christopher Awai, Bill Dorn, Raphael Eidus, Sam Ellner, Jesse Kipp, Kevin Mangubat, Matt Midboe, Andy Read, Sara Rubin, Han Su and Qing Wu
Hiru TV (Sinhala: හිරු ටීවී) is the most watched television channel in Sri Lanka, founded by Rayynor Silva (Chairman) and owned by Asia Broadcasting Corporation. [3] Hiru TV is Sri Lanka's first and only digital television channel which has the DVB-T2 pictures and stereo sounds. [4] [5] [3] It currently holds all island coverage ...