Neo Sports, the Indian Sports broadcaster seems to be having more than it can handle on it's plate and have a dog in the manger attitude when it comes to the broadcast of the Rugby World Cup in the subcontinent. Neo Sports which were granted exclusive rights for the subcontinent are only taking into consideration the Indian public when it ...
A major reallocation of FM frequencies is to take place at the end of the month. The reallocation is expected to affect all the existing radio channels and will take effect from Nov 1st 2012. Some radio channels are already begun advertising their new frequencies whilst the some are yet to do so.Please keep us updated on the list of ...
According to sources Maharaja channels Sirasa TV, Shakthi TV & Channel One MTV are now on PEO TV. The channels are said to have been added from yesterday. To read more on this please visit the link given below PEO TV : New channels on PEO TV but they are local FTA Maharaja Ones ...
As we have now come to the close of London 2012, we decided to take a look at how our local broadcasters fared in their broadcast of the games. In the run up to the games the legal battle between the Maharaja Organisation & Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation threatened to dampen the games experience in Sri Lanka with one trying ...
Channel One MTV is to be rebranded as "MTV Sports" with effect from today. Although not a dedicated sports channel it will focus mainly on sports plus a mixture of entertainment, lifestyle & business programming plus News 1st updates during it's 18hr broadcast.In addition they have secured the rights to launch the local version of "Who wants to be a ...
Unconfirmed reports coming to us are indicating that Videocon & Dish TV will be launching in Sri Lanka in the very near future. The operators are said to be looking at the possibility of setting up an earth station and uplinking from Sri Lankan soil.We are unable to confirm these reports, however there were indications back in 2012 of Dish ...
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 ...
According to reports reaching us, Dish TV Sri Lanka has added many of the FTA local channels to it's platform. The channels are reportedly on NSS6 and SES8 at 95.0E 12170, H, 40700.At present it's said that Buddhist TV, Sirasa TV, Hiru TV, Derana, CSN, Vasantham, Swarnavahini are testing. However other reports suggest that Rupavahini, Siyatha TV, TNL TV have ...
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 guys who brought you "Kangaroo Courts" back in 2006, who were were instrumental in shutting CBNsat (now known as Dialog TV) & LBN claiming that they are the only licensed operator for pay television services in Sri Lanka seem to be carrying out an illegal operation of their pay television DVT-T service.According to information reaching us, they have not ...
ABC Radio Network has begun the testing of Shaa FM on FM 92.4 according to sources. This comes hot on the heels of the hyped up launch of Hiru TV a few weeks ago. This is the last of the ABC Radio channels to be resurrected which were controversially shutdown a couple of years ago by the present government. At ...
Hiru TV created a lot of hype surrounding its launch for several months, now a few weeks after its launch we want to know your views on this channel. Please click on the link below & answer the question on our facebook poll.Facebook: Hiru TV Opinion Poll
ESS which operates ESPN, Star Sports & Star Cricket has secured multi year broadcasting rights for the Sri Lanka Premier League which debuts on August 11th. The rights have been acquired for the Indian subcontinent and covering Hong Kong and Thailand too.ESS continues to acquire broadcasting rights for the major sporting events in this region despite an outright purchase by ...
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"
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 all our fellow bloggers the management and staff of all media institutions in Sri Lanka,"A Happy, Prosperous & Blessed New Year 2013"
Three years after the entire fiasco regarding the awarding of Cricket rights was played out, SLRC has been thrust forward as the official broadcaster of all things cricket involving Sri Lanka. CSN which was unceremoniously stripped of the rights over non payment of dues to ESPN Star Sports and has now been relegated to a sports channel that only has ...
In order to improve your experience with us and for us to be able to interact better with our fellow bloggers who we are certain have got facebook accounts. We decided to launch this blog and its sisters blogs under the TV & Radio Sri Lanka banner.So please like us on http://www.facebook.com/tvradiosrilanka
Local television rights for locally played international crickets matches have gone to CSN (Carlton Sports Network), while Rupavahini the state broadcaster who held a monopoly over the local television rights since Sri Lanka gained test status have refrained from bidding.The Carlton Sports Network was formed last february and is headed by CEO Nishantha Ranathunga who is also the SLC Secretary.After ...