After losing out to (actually being robbed of) cricket broadcasting rights by CSN due to political influences, SLRC's Channel Eye & NTV have resumed broadcasting cricketing content. We are unable to confirm whether this is just a one time move or whether Channel Eye will continue broadcasting "LIVE" cricket after this tour comes to a close.CSN which won the rights ...
The recent revamp of Star Movies Action India means that big Hollywood blockbusters will premiere on a monthly basis on the channel exclusively. This is in addition to the weekly premieres of movies on Star Movies India. These movies which have all been allocated to Fox International Channels for this region have been moved to Star Movies Action. These movies ...
With the announcement that pay television channel Sony Six has acquired the rights to major sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup events until 2018 which covers two World Cup events & Eurocup events has left subscribers of local pay television providers in the lurch since none of them provide Sony Six on their network.Recently the Sri Lanka - ...
As the New Year dawned on Jan 1st TNL Networks launched websites & strengthened their social media presence. Even though the English channels (TNL Radio & Lite FM) operated by TNL have a strong web & social media presence, the same cannot be said about the TNL TV & their Sinhala Language channel.However establishing a strong web presence isn't sufficient ...
We take this opportunity to wish our fellow bloggers, the Management & staff of all media institutions in Sri Lanka"A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2014"Thank You for your wonderful support during the past year and we look forward to a greater partnership this year.
Looking back at 2013, there have been many changes in the broadcasting industry when it comes to the many FTA channels we get in Sri Lanka. 2013 has seen many channels rebranding such as Your Radio giving way to Red FM, Legends replacing Kirula Radio, not to mention the latest radio station being Fox FM 91.4 which launched early December.Not ...
Sri Lanka's newest radio channel Fox 91.4 FM launched officially. This is the newest English Radio channel managed by Asset Radio Broadcasting which also operates Neth FM. The channel has managed to secure prominent radio personality Jimmy Deen.The on-line webcast of this channel is available at http://www.fox914.com/We wish the management of Asset Radio Broadcasting the very best in their endeavors ...
Sri Lanka's newest radio station "You FM" which is actually a relaunch of Max Radio will officially launch on 5th December according to it's website http://www.youfm.lk/ . The station will be bilingual and broadcast a mix of English & Sinhala language programming/music and catering for those who enjoy music from both languages. The station has relocated its broadcast base to ...
English Language channel Max TV under went a soft relaunch as "You TV". The relaunch took place over the CHOGM weekend. The channel that carried "Al Jazeera" for the a major part of the day is now carrying "France 24", a 24X7 English news channel that as the name suggests has its roots in France.Ever since its relaunch the channel ...
The English language television channel known as "NTV" which commenced operations a few years ago has been relaunched just prior to the CHOGM last weekend. The channel now know as well "ntv", has had a refreshed logo which frankly looks hideous when compared to the previous one.This channel orginally started off as an English one and then was reduced to ...
It's become a habit on local television & radio media to announce the winners address if one wins some sort of promo. This is happening for quite some time with no regard for individuals privacy. Hiru TV has been the latest culprit where they visit peoples houses and give then cash for watching their programmes and require those poor unsuspecting ...
With effect from midnight ESPN bit adieu to the subcontinent and has left the entire asian region and will be in exile for a period of at least 5 years or more. The channel owned by Disney had formed a JV with Star Sports and operated as ESPN Star Sports for more than a decade or so. According to the ...
Subcontinent feeds of sports channels ESPN Star Sports which are now managed by Star TV in India, are to undergo major changes from 6th Nov 2013. ESPN exited the joint venture last year resulting in the subsequent rebranding of ESPN as "Fox Sports" in Asia. After months of deliberations it has been decided that ESPN will be rebranded under the ...
After having years and years of only general entertainment channels, Sri Lanka finally got two sports (well almost) centric channels in the guise of CSN & then MTV Sports. Well not quite, these two even though they call themselves "sports" channels, telecast mainly general entertainment content. Sports will account to a small percentage compared to the rest of the content.However ...
Tamil FM Sri Lanka's latest Tamil language Radio Station which commenced broadcasting in the Northern peninsula on FM 99.5 Kokavil & FM 99.7 Jaffna will cover the entire island on FM 107.8 in the near future. The channel is termed as the first ever "Infotainment Tamil Radio in Sri Lanka", which should mean it should carry informative-educational programming in addition ...
According to unconfirmed reports that reached us, Max TV will relaunch as U TV & Max Radio will relaunch as U FM. We are not sure whether the television station will be a mainly English channel as before or will revert to a multilingual broadcast, telecasting Sinhala & English programming.As to whether the station is to be leased to another ...
Over the last several days, ETV has dropped all regular programming and is concentrating on Channel News Asia plus some music and a teaser that ends with the words "The Sky is the limit". This indicates a possible relaunch or revamping of the channel under same name or another.ETV which was owned by the EAP Group was under the management ...
Surprisingly Siyatha TV returned to the airwaves after entering a testing phase for about a month or so. A new channel was expected either in the form of "Real TV" or "Neth TV" from the beginning of October but the same channel returned.The reason behind the testing phase is not clear and the return of "Siyatha TV" is either due ...
Tomorrow Yes FM Sri Lanka is going where no station has gone before, yes outdoor events are fairly common for radio stations specially during the festive season where each station is parked at some mall someplace in the city.Having multiple broadcasts from different locations in the island within a span of 24hours from cities located in various parts of the ...
Over the last weekend Siyatha TV wrapped up transmissions and put the channel on test mode once again. It is rumored that Neth FM will start their a sister TV station or Real Radio will launch Real TV. But it's interesting to note that Siyatha is still carrying out their activities such as news broadcasting over the channel.Either a rebranded ...
