Those of you who are sick of the advertisements carried on the Indian feeds of International channels over all the pay television operators in Sri Lanka can rejoice at a recent ruling that has placed an ad cap on channels commencing next month.As per the new regulations, advertisements on Indian feeds of channels will not 20 min per hour for ...
Sri Lanka's latest radio station Legends 96.6FM launched a couple of days ago. The station that is operated by MBC Radio functions as a sister channel to Yes 101FM. The channel focuses on 70's, 80's & 90's music.After the failure of their oldies radio station Classic Radio a few years ago, this is Maharaja's second attempt at operating a second ...
Those of you who are fans with us on facebook would already know that FM 96.6 Kirula Radio went off air a week or so ago and was replaced with the latest channel by MBC Radio being Legends FM. Following the same format as the now defunct Classic Radio which was also operated by MBC Radio, this channel is now ...
Kirula 96.6 FM which is operated by the Maharaja's ceased their broadcasts as of last night and has been replaced by the test transmissions of a English Language channel. The still unnamed channel is presently testing on FM 96.6 and is broadcasting manly retro music indicating that it could possibly be a retro station that plays mainly 70's and 80's ...
As many of you would know, a brand new English Radio station called Red FM launched a few weeks ago, this was a replacement to "Your Radio" which was in operation previously. Although frequencies were allocated last year along with the re-organisation of radio frequencies in Sri Lanka, the station did take a long time to commence transmissions.The radio station ...
Contrary to previous beliefs that Star Sports 2 is actually "ESPN India" rebranded. It has been confirmed that Star Sports 2 is actually a brand new channel launched by ESPN Star Sports. The launch will take place on March 11th 2013 and international football will be it's driver content. It will also showcase other sporting content.It's very likely that football ...
According to advertisements running on Star Sports / Star Cricket, Star Sports 2 will be launching soon in the subcontinent. It's highly unlikely to a new rather, rather ESPN India will rebrand as Star Sports 2. In the rest of Asia "ESPN" rebranded as Fox Sports Asia due to ESPN parent company exiting the 50/50 Joint venture and Newscorp operators ...
We are getting unconfirmed reports that Sirasa TV is now broadcasting 24 hours a days. However it looks like a hurriedly organised 24 hour transmission since complains are being received that there is no proper schedule available for late night broadcasts.At the beginning when the private TV stations were commencing broadcasts most of them went 24 hours but with the ...
After several months of being off air, it seems that Everlasting Radio is struggling in securing a frequency to resume transmissions. Ever since that fateful date on which the frequencies were changed, this radio station has been off air. Everlasting Radio still claims that they will return to the airwaves soon like it has been doing so for the past ...
We are happy to inform you that Dialog Axiata have sorted out problems with their network that prevented Dialog customers from accessing this blog and all other blogs that were on "blogspot.com". We hope that the problem has been permanently resolved and does not occur again.We apologise to all our fellow bloggers who were unable to access any of our ...
Please note that Dialog users are unable to access our blogs and all other blogspot.com blogs. Those who wish to access our blogs should do so using non-Dialog connections. Please get the word out to your friends & all fellow bloggers. Please call Dialog and inform them of this issue that had affected a wide range of blogs. We hope ...
We take this opportunity to wish all our fellow bloggers the management and staff of all media institutions in Sri Lanka,"A Happy, Prosperous & Blessed New Year 2013"
2012 has been quite an eventful year in the Sri Lankan television & radio industry. With the launch of Hiru TV, the first HD ready television station after several months in testing. Not to mention the biggest happening can be termed as the reallocation of frequencies assigned to the private radio stations. Everlasting Radio going off air after the reallocation ...
We take this opportunity to wish our fellow bloggers, the management & staff of all media institutions in Sri Lanka & overseas...."A Very Merry & Blessed Christmas 2012"
Everlasting which switched frequencies several hours after the frequency reallocation took place, suddenly went off air a few days later leaving there fan's wondering on what exactly has happened. Despite assurances by their social media team from the early part of last month that the station will return soon, nothing seems to be happening. Everlasting still continues to broadcast online ...
A few weeks ago it was reported that BBC Entertainment & it's sister channel CBeebies BBC will exit the subcontinent today 30th Nov 2012. Therefore today will be last day these channels will be broadcasting in this region. This decision was taken by largely considering the Indian pay television market. No consideration was given by BBC to the other countries ...
English Radio station Everlasting Radio which was allocated FM 101.50MHz has ceased broadcasting over the airwaves & is presently available only online for the past several days. Everlasting Radio are calling it "routine maintenance", but it seems to be more than that. Normally Radio Stations don't cease broadcasting to carry out maintenance. It seems that they have some problem with ...
The TRC which carried out the reorganization of frequencies to the local FM radio stations in order to prevent frequencies from interfering with each other have right royally messed up with the allocation of the "Everlasting Radio" frequency. The frequency allocated to "Everlasting Radio" is the same allocated to the "The Buddhist" & is therefore causing interference between the two ...
The ABC Radio network operated Sha FM has returned to the airwaves on FM 90.9Mhz & 91.1MHz after a lapse of several years according to information being received. The launch coincided with the reorganization of frequencies of all the FM radio stations in the island. At the moment Sha will operate as a 24X7 non-stop music channel.In other news, several ...
The new FM frequency allocations which will take effect on November 1st 2012 are as followsEnglish Language StationsE FM 88.3 MHzGold FM 93.0 MHz, 93.2 MHzKiss FM 96.9 MHzLite FM 87.6 MHz, 87.8 MHzReal Radio 97.1 MHzSun Fm 98.7 MHz, 98.9 MHzTNL Rocks 99.2 MHzYes FM 100.8 MHz, 101.0 MHzRadio Sri Lanka 97.4 MHz, 97.6 MHzSinhala Language StationsFM Derana 92.2 ...