Recently information has surfaced about a brand new television & radio network due to launch in Sri Lanka in the near future. The network called Sky Television & Radio Network has it's website www.sky.lk already hosted with the words "Coming Soon" on the home page.No other details are available about this network, therefore we request our fellow bloggers to keep ...
ABC Network is set to launch Hiru TV in october this year. The channel is set to broadcast on a 24 hour basis according to initial reports. The programming contents have not been divulged at the moment and no indication of whether the channel will conduct digital or analog transmissions.ABC which recently relaunched Sun FM after it being shutdown for ...
According to information being received the frequency reallocation taking place on Nov 1st 2012 will stop disturbances occurring between radio stations. Stations that have more than five frequencies may get two frequencies & those that have less than five may get one frequency which will have islandwide coverage.The gap between radio stations will be increase to 0.3 from the present ...
We are getting reports that Rangiri TV is now visible on UHF 60 in the Gampaha & Ganemulla areas. The signal is said to be weak. Please keep us updated on the latest about Rangiri TV as the days progress.
With over half the Olympics completed, it's very clear that this time the Olympic coverage in Sri Lanka has been excellent compared to the past. Mainly due to the pay television coverage & coverage by two Sri Lankan media giants.The television viewers are feasting their eyes to coverage by pay television channels ESPN, ESPN HD & Star Sports including FTA ...
With ESPN & Star Sports splitting their almost 16 year joint venture. Star is in the process of purchasing the shares owned by Disney who operate ESPN. This would mean that Disney-ESPN would exit the sports broadcasting business in Asia for a few years due to the existing no-compete clause in the present agreement joint venture.Once the Disney-ESPN shares are ...
In a move that will be hailed by the sports loving public in Sri Lanka the Supreme Court has over ruled an order by the Colombo High Court preventing MTV/MBC from broadcasting the Olympic Games. This ruling means that both MTV/MBC & SLRC can telecast the Olympics thereby ensuring better coverage of the games.The inability of one broadcaster to telecast ...
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 ...
As reported over the media Hiru TV the latest offering by ABC Networks will be taking to the airwaves on May 23rd from 6am onwards. The channel which boasts of superior technology has had a degradation of picture quality on the local pay television platforms ever since they launched FTA test transmissions.The channel also has ruffled some feathers by making ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The two channels from the Neo Sports stable have relaunched taking on a new look and feel. The Neo Cricket channel was relaunched as "Neo Prime" and Neo Sports has adopted several new changes. This comes against the back drop of both channels loosing the coveted BCCI rights to Star India and the expiration of the Bangladesh Cricket rights. However ...
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 ...
According to reports being received, Carlton Sports Network (CSN) is to shutdown from 1st March. Accordingly employees have been sent on leave & many are being compensated for the loss. Claiming to be a sports dedicated channel this channel however devoted much of its time to non sports related programming as well.The channel has a redistribution agreement with Setanta Sports ...
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 ...
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 ...
The battle between the Maharaja Television MTV/MBC & Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation has heated up so much that ultimately it may result in Sri Lankans who watch FTA channels being deprived of the Olympic games broadcasts due to legal wrangling. It is time that exclusive rights declaration of the Olympic Games for local FTA broadcasters in Sri Lanka be stopped ...
Sri Lanka's latest television channel Hiru TV launched a few hours ago. The channel which broadcasts on stereo can be received over FTA as well as on sri lankan pay television networks. After several months of testing on FTA and on the pay television networks the channel finally commenced transmissions today.At the moment not much information is available about the ...
