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A few ago we witnessed the birth of a brand new channel called NTV. The channel had pathetic coverage and even more pathetic was it's content. Mainly consisting of repeats of popular TV shows, this channel was doomed from the start. Apart from a few shows the only watchable content was some classical songs that they played from time to ...
Channel Eye Sri Lanka's premier Sports broadcaster has begun broadcasting the Rugby World Cup 2011 via Neo Sports on a link obtained from PEO TV according to reports. Usually local channels telecast the Rugby World Cup from the knockout stages and this is the first time that the matches played in the round robin stage are also being telecast by ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's sad to note the plight of the two so-called sports channels in Sri Lanka, namely CSN (Carlton Sports Network) & MTV Sports. So far non of them have confirmed the "LIVE" broadcast of the RBS Six Nations Rugby, MTV Sports states on their facebook page that they will have highlights of the matches throughout the tournament, but it doesn't ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Local FTA television channels Sirasa TV, MTV Sports then known as Channel One MTV & Shakthi TV owned by the Capital Maharaja group that proudly proclaimed over the newspapers barring any pay television company from carrying any of their three channels & also in an interview scoffed at the idea of pay television in Sri Lanka and claiming that the ...
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 ...
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 ...
CSN will be telecasting the upcoming SLPL which is expected to take place in August 2012 over FTA. SET SIX is expected to be announced as the television partner for this entire region, a channel not yet available on any locally operated pay television platform. There will definitely be a scramble to add the channel onto the local pay television ...
In the wake of the launch of ADA Derana 24x7, MTV Sports / New 1st is facing an identity crisis. The channel which has a News 1st logo and MTV Sports logo displayed and telecasts everything ranging from sports, entertainment, etc doesn't seem capable of deciding what content to telecast. Initially MTV Sports biggest crisis was that they telecast many ...
A BIG "THANK YOU" for the "100".... we have now passed "100" likes on Facebook - . We thank all our facebook fans and bloggers for enabling us to make this a massive success, we couldn't have done it without you. Please continue to introduce us to your friends & family... we are now looking forward to the 150th LIKE!!!Please ...
Well a couple of days ago, MTV Sports suddenly reverted back to the original MTV logo that they used in days gone by. The Sports part was dropped, on-screen graphics were changed to reflect this change. The channel which touted itself as a sports channel after CSN launched a few year ago, was more of a GEC than a sports ...
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 ...
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 ...
