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[HCDX] SLBC Stopped the MW Tx
SLBC Stopped the MW Tx
>From 01-06-2008, Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation
(SLBC) stopped the MW Service on 873 KHz to Indian
Listeners. This frequency mainly used for Tamil
Service. This particular service started on 1925. At
present the only MW Tamil service from SLBC is on 855
KHz for the Sri Lankan Tamil listeners.
Few years back they stopped the evening service on 873
KHz. From January 2008 they reduced the morning
service. According to the SLBC officials, they didn't
get advertisement for that service. They spend three
lahks Rupees per day for transmitt the programme to
South India. Here in Tamil Nadu so many private FM?s
acquired the SLBC clients for the advertisement. This
is also the one of the reason to stopped the well
known historical service.
History of the Organization in Brief
The history of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
dates back to year 1925, when its first pre-cursor,
?Colombo Radio?, was launched on 16th December 1925
using a Medium Wave radio transmitter of one kilowatt
of output power from Welikada, Colombo. Commenced just
03 years after the launch of BBC, Colombo radio was
the first ever radio station in Asia.
This new medium of mass communication not only became
increasingly popular in the years that followed, but
also quickly evolved into a medium of national
character, which led to the ?Radio Service? being
organized as a separate department of the government
of Ceylon (as country was then called) by the ?call
sign? ?Radio Ceylon? in 1949. Subsequently in 1967,
the Department of Broadcasting was transformed into
its present statutory form of a state corporation by
the Ceylon broadcasting corporation Act. No 37 of 1966
of the parliament of Ceylon, thereby assuring
increased autonomy and flexibility in the operations
of the new organization.
The organization acquired its present name, Sri Lanka
Broadcasting Corporation, with the transition of the
state into the status of ?Republic of Sri Lanka? on
22nd May 1972. SLBC has since continued in the same
legal status as a state corporation, and is currently
listed under the scope of the ministry of Information
and Media of the Government of Sri Lanka.
Transition of Domestic Broadcasting from Medium Wave
to FM
As was the case with many national radio stations with
the same standing several decades ago, SLBC was
relying on medium wave as the primary mode of domestic
broadcasting until the dawn of ?90s. Some sporadic FM
broadcasts had nevertheless been already introduced at
several transmitting stations more as a means of
?relaying? the broadcasts to medium wave transmitting
stations. However, by late ?80s SLBC was acting in
recognition of the strategic importance of switching
from MW to FM as the primary mode of domestic
broadcasting. Accordingly, in 1993, ?the FM Stereo
Broadcasting Facility at Colombo? was commissioned
with the technical assistance of the government of
Japan.
This was followed by the ?Islandwide FM Development
Project? that was launched in year 1995. The
objectives of the project were to develop an
Islandwide multi-channel FM stereo broadcast
transmission network and to divest the costly domestic
medium wave transmitting stations, which were
typically broadcasting only one or two programme
channels per transmitting station. By 1999, more than
95% country?s total population was being covered by
SLBC?s FM transmissions with nearly 90% of them
receiving all six nationwide channels.
Programme Channels (Radio Services) currently
maintained by SLBC
SLBC has, throughout its history, been committed to
its mandated task of maintaining the public service
broadcasting in Sri Lanka, by way of providing the
public with the information and entertainment, and
fostering the social, cultural and economic
development of the country, and has maintained this
commitment as the core guiding principle of its
programming policy. Despite the introduction of a
certain amount of commercial programming into its
operations, in order to partially finance its
predominantly public service broadcasting operations,
the respective station genres and the programming
content are carefully designed to be within its
programming policy guidelines.
At present, SLBC?s Islandwide (domestic) FM network
broadcasts six regular programme channels on a
nationwide basis, and those six ?national? channels
account for the major proportion of its domestic
broadcasting. The six channels are,
1. Sinhala Swadeshiya Sevaya? (Sinhala National
Service)
2. Tamil National Service
3. English Service
4. City FM (Sinhala)
5. Velenda Sevaya? (Sinhala Commercial Service), and
6. Thendral (Tamil Commercial Service)
While the first 03 channels are dedicated for public
service broadcasting in the three languages Sinhala,
Tamil and English, the fourth one (City FM) is
maintained as a channel dedicated for the youth. The
last two channels, whilst representing ?an adult
contemporary? genre, accommodates a certain amount of
commercial content. Besides the above six channels
operated on a regular basis, SLBC also operates on
nationwide basis a seventh channel, namely the ?Sports
Service?, which is a channel dedicated for sports, but
only during the times of major sports events such as
international cricket matches.
The other component of domestic broadcasting comprises
of 04 Regional Services, each of which are originating
from respective regional studio centers, and 05
community radio services, operated in five specific
areas with substantial socio economic homogeneity. All
of these regional and community radio services
maintained by the SLBC largely represent a public
service broadcasting format with regional community
focus.
In addition to the above domestic services, SLBC is
also operating a host of overseas services,
transmitting in shortwave to the South & South-West
Asia and the Middle East, in Sinhala, English, Hindi
and several Indian sub-continental languages. Also,
there is a medium wave transmitting facility for
broadcasting mainly to the Southern regions of India.
Contact details:
Reception Desk/Telephone operator
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2697491 ? 5 (5 lines)
Facsimile : ++ 94 11 2691568 (Reception Desk)
Office of the Chairman
Anusha Palpita - Chairman
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2696439
Fax : ++ 94 11 2695488
E-mail : chmnslbc@xxxxxxxxx , chairman@xxxxxxx
Office of the Director General
Samantha Weliweriya - Director General
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2695248
Fax : ++ 94 11 2697150
email : dg@xxxxxxx
Office of the Deputy Director General of Engineering
Sanath Panawennage - Deputy Director General of
Engineering
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2696131
Fax : ++ 94 11 2696131
E-mail : slbcddge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx , ddge@xxxxxxx
For matters pertaining to this website
Engineer-in-charge
L.H.W.Wijethilake
Tel : ++ 94 11 2697491-5, Ext: 268
E-mail : wijethilaka@xxxxxxxxx
News Room
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2696128/ 2691972
Fax : ++ 94 11 2698576
E-mail : slbcnews@xxxxxxxxx
Marketing Division
Palitha Dissanayake
Director (Marketing)
Telephone : ++ 94 11 2696602
Fax : ++ 94 11 2691977
E-mail : palkume@xxxxxxxxxxxx , marketing@xxxxxxx
Source: SLBC Website (http://www.slbc.lk), WRTH 2008,
PWBR 2007, Wikipedia, Dxers Guide Jan-Mar 2006,
Sarvadesa Vaanoli, Feb 2004.
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