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Launched under a year ago, CSN offers high quality sports entertainment as a fixed option for the deserving television (TV) viewer. Following are excerpts of an interview held with CSN Director Marketing & Promotions Prasanna Jayasundera. By Ashwin Hemmathagama Question (Q): Sri Lanka is a small nation with comparatively limited number of TV viewers. So, ...
- CSN joins hands with “Prime TV (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC secretary’s company wins SLC’s TV rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Carlton to exclusively show SL vs Pakistan Cricket (Category: Business)
- CSN completes one year of successful operations (Category: Business)
Sources from the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) say that teledramas that have been rejected by the selection board to be telecast on the national television channel are being forced on the Corporation through political pressure.
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.” -H.G. WELLS, A Modern Utopia Politicians arrested It was reported that the police had arrested 40 politicians and instituted legal action against them during the past 12 months. According to Police Spokesman SP Ajith Rohana, ...
- Sri Lanka’s democratic institutions have metastasized into something dangerous (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is The “System Change” We Anticipate? How Can It Be Achieved? (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics of power has destroyed the power of politics (Category: Breaking News)
- “The Law And Order Situation Is Not Good” – Vasu (Category: Breaking News)
On Friday July 22, lawyers and judges stayed away from courts around the country protesting against the alleged threat to the Magistrate of Mannar over the telephone by Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Also connected to this allegation is the attack on the Mannar courts complex by a mob said to be in ...
- LST condemns attack on Mannar Court house (Category: Business)
- BASL wants Minister arrested; Courts come to a halt as lawyers protest (Category: Business)
- Senior lawyers file petition in CA against Cabinet Minister for contempt (Category: Business)
- If Sarath Fonseka can be trated this way then what could be the plight of ordinary Tamil or Sinh... (Category: Breaking News)
The interim injunction order issued by the Commercial high Court preventing the MTV/MBC media network from broadcasting the Olympics was set aside by the Supreme Court yesterday. The ruling was given when an appeal filed by MTV/MBC Network was taken up before a three-Judge bench of the Supreme Court consisting the of the Chief Justice ...
- A spike against COVID-19 (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- A spike against COVID-19 (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- A spike against COVID-19 (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- A spike against COVID-19 (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
The Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information Dr. Chritha Herath assumed duties yesterday amidst invoking blessings by the Maha Sangha and the leaders of other religious faiths. Addressing the staff of the Media Ministry Dr. Herath said that the Media Ministry has a great task to perform in assisting the development activities ...
- Media freedom upheld, no restrictions – Media Ministry Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Website owners must now pay (Category: Breaking News)
- Code of ethics for newscasting websites in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ganegala appointed Acting Chairman ITN (Category: Breaking News)
, said Dr. Mohan Samaranyaka, Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, addressing the media at a ...
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
- Results of 2012 SAARC Film Awards (Category: Business)
- ‘Infotel 2011’ in December (Category: Business)
- Fitch Affirms Standard Chartered Sri Lanka Branch at ‘AAA(lka)’ (Category: Business)
The grand finale of the highly anticipated Ranaviru Real Star Mission Two, one of the most watched reality shows in Sri Lanka which highlights the hidden talents of our armed forces personal to hit the airways live on Sri Lanka Rupavahini on 6 July. Ranaviru Real Star was developed on a concept
- Ranaviru Real Star Grand Finale Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranaviru Real Star Mission 2 commences (Category: Business)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
Ranil Wickremasinghe and his UNPers preparing for elections are like medieval knights going to war without body armour, swords, lances and even horses. Elections in the 21st century are fought with the media – press, radio, TV and now on Internet – but Ranil’s faction of the UNP which is the main body of the ...
- Ranil’s Mythical Access To Global Finance & Political Longevity Is Media Creation (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP must renew itself as a party and take on the dictatorial Rajapakse regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil – A Man With A Soul So Dead (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan elections: A new dimension (Category: Business)
As Sri Lanka-Japan bilateral discourse completes 60 memorable events, Japan has become our seventh largest international trade partner. “The total bilateral trade turnover between the two nations has grown to $ 1,250 m in 2011. Japan, our seventh largest trade partner in 2011, has always been a key trading nation as well as a generous ...
- Looking East (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka, Japan talk of FTA (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to consider Special Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka: Japanese minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to consider possible FTA with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Japan continues to be a top partner of Sri Lanka as our bilateral trade with the Land of the Rising Sun topped $ 1.2 b in 2011 and knowledge transfer of Japanese manufacturing practices to Sri Lanka has helped improve quality of manufacturing here. “Japan has always been a key trading partner as well as ...
- JASTECA program on ‘Japanese Way to Delight Customers’ (Category: Business)
- Top seminar on Japanese style of management by JASTECA (Category: Business)
- “Land of the Rising Sun now our seventh trade partner”: Rishad to Japan Times (Category: Business)
A Governance Analysis of Frequency Allocation & TV Rights in Present Sri Lanka Frequency Allocation- A Grand Corruption? Understanding the state capture by Kleptocrats does not require a dedicated study; it is easily recognizable. For the benefit of keen students of governance, let me begin this article with the definition of Kleptocracy: “A form of political and government ...
- Video: 221214 MTV NFL HAKEEM EVENT (Category: Video)
- Watch “20-20” On CSN (Category: Breaking News)
- “Maximizing NFL Betting Success: Your Strategic Game Plan for Crushing the Vegas NFL Odds” (Category: Breaking News)
- With die-hard Dodgers fans like this, who needs the NFL? (Category: USA, California)
The Colombo Commercial High Court today issued an enjoining order preventing rights to any local Television station except Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) to telecast the London Olympics.
The Colombo Commercial High Court today issued a stay order, valid until May 31, against Asia Pacific Broadcasting (APC) preventing it from handing over the telecast rights of the upcoming Olympic games to a private television station. The HC order came after the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
- Strong Message (Category: Business)
- Women's rights to be discuss at UNHRC session (Category: Breaking News)
- Of human rights fig leaves (Category: Breaking News)
- Winning the global battle (Category: Breaking News)
The Commercial High Court issued an enjoining order today preventing issuing of the London Olympic TV rights to any Television station in Sri Lanka except Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.
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
- SC sets aside order preventing MTV/MBC from broadcasting Olympics (Category: Business)
- MTV and MBS counter sue SLRC for Rs. 500 m damages (Category: Business)
- SC says MTV/MBC can telecast Olympic games (Category: Breaking News)
- Restraining order against MTV/MBC preventing telecast of London Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Conrad Black hints at return to media ownership (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
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
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
- Stay order on Olympic games telecast rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic broadcast rights 'will not be transferred' (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
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
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic rights ‘will not be transferred’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Stay order on Olympic games telecast rights (Category: Breaking News)
By D.C. Ranatunga “We bear a very heavy responsibility to build up this service with great care, vigilance and intellectual integrity so that the people of this country belonging to different ethnic groups, believing in four different faiths, of diverse economic groups, living in varying environments, urban and rural, with different levels of literacy and ...
- London Olympics biggest in US TV history, despite gripes (Category: Business)
- ABC sport cover feels pinch (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- ABC’s Hiru TV to launch on 23 May (Category: Business)
- ABC’s Hiru TV gears to shake up the television industry (Category: Business)
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 ...
- LTTE suspects reordered video footages of prison compound (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil detained on Channel4 video (Category: Breaking News)
- Video shows arrested man throwing first punch (Category: USA, Washington)
- Jones: 'I was assaulted. We have video evidence of it' (Category: USA, Washington)
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 ...
- Mervyn`s problems: President won`t intervene (Category: Breaking News)
- No one can touch me as long as Rajapaksas are in power (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervyn stripped of Deputy Minister post, SLFP membership cancelled (Category: Breaking News)
- One and a half cheers for MR (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s most popular children’s television programme ‘Muthuhara’ broadcasted by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) selected Cinnamon Grand’s Nuga Gama (the Village in the City) for its first live broadcast on 1 January. This is the first time
- Cinnamon Grand first ever hotel to launch first day cover (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand indulges children to mark World Tourism Day (Category: Business)
- A grand Vesak at Cinnamon Grand (Category: Business)
- Lights off and Earth on at Cinnamon Grand (Category: Business)
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
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 ...
- Is Hirunika Premachandra, Sri Lanka’s Cindy Sheehan? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Govt has violated Int’l agreements by filing action against Fonseka – Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Bharatha Lakshman’s murder – only a symptom, the disease is much more acute and dangerous… (Category: Breaking News)
- Premadasa Exceptionalism and challenges it currently faces… (Category: Breaking News)
State broadcaster Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has contracted Harris Broadcast Communications to provide it with DVB-T2 transmission equipment as the South Asian nation migrates from analogue to digital terrestrial television. The contract involves a number of Harris Maxiva ULX UHF
- DVB-T2 digital technology to be introduced (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil gets contract to convert Rupavahini systems to digital (Category: Breaking News)
- Shop brews up arcade storm (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Court orders probe on State TV (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
Mission 1 was a record-breaker, mission two promises more; Ranaviru Real Star, one of the most watched reality shows in Sri Lanka highlighting the hidden talents of our armed forces personnel, commenced operations with the highly-anticipated Mission 2. Ranaviru Real Star was developed on a concept given by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and is organised ...
- Ranaviru Real Star Grand Finale Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranaviru Real Star Season Two grand finale today (Category: Business)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
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
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