By Indika Sri Aravinda Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) is to take MTV to Court over the broadcasting rights of the London Olympic Games. This is after MTV publicly announced last week that the private channel will be telecasting the 2012 Games which begins in July. SLRC Chairman Mohan Samaranayake insisted that only the state ...

The bulk of the independent media was prevented from covering the arrival of the six Sri Lankan fishermen who arrived at the Bandaranayake International Airport (BIA) earlier today, 10 days after they were rescued by Spanish marines from the captivity of Somali pirates. The free media was informed by a fisheries ministry official at the BIA that there were orders to prevent them from the coverage...

  Report by The Sunday Leader seals decision By Indika Sri Aravinda The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has decided not to transfer the telecast rights of the upcoming Olympic Games in London to the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), SLRC Chairman Mohan Samaranayake said. He said that the decision was arrived at in light of ...

By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands to lose financially if it gives the rights to another ...

The Colombo Magistrate’s court has granted permission to the Police to secure video footage concerning the Magazine Prison ordeal. They have also been permitted to interrogate prisoners.The Police are conducting comprehensive investigations with regard to the recent clash at the Magazine Prison. The Police told the Courts that they need to secure video footage on ...

Last week Mervyn Silva was on the run. The foul-mouthed thug switched off his phones having purportedly declared that he would not speak to the media. No small wonder there. Given that Silva was under fire from men not only within his own constituency but from those very persons he had handpicked to perform local ...

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has ordered the authorities of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) to establish an independent panel to investigate charges against sacked media workers.

Broadcasting units of the state owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and Independent Television Network (ITN) have discreetly been taken over by the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) owned by President’s son, Naval Officer Yoshitha Rajapaksa and his girl friend, it is learnt.

The occasion was the annual Budget Speech in Parliament. Unlike in the Westminster- system days, and in terms of age-old traditions of parliamentary practices, the Finance Minister, in this instance His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka (as he could not trust to give this vital portfolio away to any other member of his sixty one-strong ...

Colombo (Sri Lanka Mirror) - Sri Lankan cricket lovers are unable to watch the ongoing Test series with Pakistan in Abu Dhabi due to Carlton Television Network (CTN) failing to reach minimum network coverage, reports say. However, CTN’s chief executive Nishantha Ranatunga said he has received no such complaint over the failure to telecast the matches. There is still no confirmation o...

The Media Ministry has started a massive project of introducing digital technology to the transmission of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini channels. All television channels in Sri Lanka currently operate on analogue technology. Many Asian countries have commenced projects to introduce digital technology to television broadcasting.

OCTOBER 17, 2011: Status: Not Free Legal Environment: 23 Political Environment: 30 Economic Environment: 18 Total Score: 71 Despite the end of the government’s long-running war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group in May 2009, media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka, with journalists subject to myriad forms of legal harassment and physical intimidation. Altho...

I do not mourn for Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra: I mourn for this country that is ours Frederica Jansz Can anybody tell me why Duminda Silva is not shackled to his bed? After all, here we have a man who by numerous eyewitness and published accounts first slapped and then shot Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. Even if ...

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka's state run Rupavahini Corporation won a battle with the newly formed Carlton Sports Network to win the rights to telecast the upcoming Sri Lanka - Australia cricket series.

Highet ever bid received by SL Cicekt for Local TV B'cast rightsThe Local TV Broadcasting rights for the Australian Tour of Sri Lanka has been awarded to Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation  for a record figure of Rs. 22 Million. (Rupees Twenty two Million), states Sri Lanka Cricket issuing a media release. This is the highest bid ever for Local TV broadcasting rights received by Sri Lanka Cricket.

By Ranjit Jayasundera Sensational evidence has come to light that demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that in Sri Lanka fortune favours not necessarily the bold but certainly the favoured. Carlton Sports Network (CSN) a company incorporated on 10th February 2011 has won the rights to broadcast the Australian Cricket tour of Sri Lanka next ...

President Rajapakse has said that that the Kokavil transmission tower is a symbol of mutual relations between communities.   The nation had the right to be aware of what was happening in the world as well as the country. Such a Tower has been installed mainly for communication. It will expand the friendly and mutual ...

May 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka government is to appoint senior journalist Mohan Samaranayake as the Chairman of the state -run television, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

May 29, Colombo: The grand finale of Sri Lanka war heroes' reality television show will be held today at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, Sri Lanka's state television Rupavahini announced.

Exhibition Of Contemporary Woven Art By Tilak Samarawickrema – April 1 – 17 Tilak Samarawickrema embodies in his work the contemporary spirit of his country, Sri Lanka. His prodigious output is rooted firmly in the local artisan tradition and spans the gamut from wall-hangings to carpets, passing through an entire spectrum of weavings. His motifs ...

It is illegal to issue unofficial results - Dayananda DishanayakeThe Elections Commissioner has announced that official results can only be telecast by ITN, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Swarnavahini and Derana TV Channels as only these TV Channels have secured the rights to telecast the official results.  In addition Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Mobitel, Etisalat, Hutch, Wijaya newspap...

The Elections Commissioner has announced that only four television channels including ITN have the authority to announce the results. The results certified by the Elections Chief will be released through the Computer Centre established at the Elections Secretariat. The official results can only be telecast by ITN, the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Swarnawahini and Derana ...

Feb 11, Colombo: The Government of Japan has provided a grant of about 54 million rupees (41.7 million Japanese Yen) to improve the TV production equipment at the state-run television broadcaster Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC).

by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka "A social group dominates antagonistic groups, which it tends to ‘liquidate’ or to subjugate perhaps even by armed force; it leads kindred and allied groups.” - Gramsci The massive WikiLeaks detonation took place in the wake of a significant conjunction of events for Sri Lanka. That was the celebration of Mahaveera day by the Diaspora Tamils and the visit to Jaff...

The Ministry of Defence has initiated the first ever 'Ranaviru Real Star' reality TV programme, exclusively for the members of tri-forces, with the cooperation of Dialog Axiata PLC and the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

The Ministry of Defence has initiated the first ever 'Ranaviru Real Star' reality TV programme, exclusively for the members of tri-forces, with the cooperation of Dialog Axiata PLC and the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

By Rohini Hensman Sri Lanka’s claim to be a democracy has been tenuous for years, but the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution by parliament on 8 September 2010 dealt it a fatal blow. It changed Sri Lanka...

By Sumanasiri Liyanage Why do we need laws? If all of us are law-abiding citizens, laws may become redundant. Someone has remarked that laws are needed to restrict and limit the actions of the heartless people....

By Dayan Jayatilleka What is the ‘main contradiction’ in Sri Lanka today? It is that between the very broad national base of support and sacrifice for the war and the resultant peace on the one hand, and the increasingly narrow character of the beneficiaries of the dividends of that popular peace, on the other. The war was national but the peace dividend and its distribution appe...

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has ordered the authorities of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) to establish an independent panel to investigate charges against sacked media workers. Authorities were also ordered to include a retired judge into the panel.