Radio Ceylon (Sinhala: ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සේවයLanka Guwan Viduli Sevaya, Tamil: இலங்கை வானொலி, ilankai vanoli) is a radio station based in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and the first radio station in Asia. Broadcasting was started on an experimental basis by the colonial Telegraph Department in 1923, just four years after the inauguration of broadcasting in Europe. (The first European broadcasting radio station started on November 6, 1919 in The Hague, The Netherlands. It was operated by the Dutch Hans Henricus Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda.)
RadioCeylon (Sinhala: ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සේවය Lanka Guwan Viduli Sevaya, Tamil: இலங்கை வானொலி, ilankai vanoli) is a radio station based in Sri Lanka (formerly...
existence on 5 January 1967 when RadioCeylon became a public corporation. Dudley Senanayake who was the Prime Minister of Ceylon in 1967 ceremonially opened...
Indic text in this article correctly. Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island...
English language. The first radio broadcast in Ceylon was in 1923 when recorded music was broadcast using parts of radio equipment from a captured German...
Ceylon Manohar (Tamil: சிலோன் மனோகர்) (c. 1944 – 22 January 2018), popular name of A. E. Manoharan (Anthony Pillai Emmanuel Manoharan) also known as Surangani...
pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined RadioCeylon, South Asia's oldest radio station...
Geetmala was broadcast on RadioCeylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to the Vividh Bharati Service of All India Radio network in 1989 where it ran...
Greet was born in Ceylon in 1932. Greet presented radio programmes with RadioCeylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. He later became an actor....
distinguished radio journalist who has enjoyed a career of 42 years in public service broadcasting, on the island of Sri Lanka. De Silva joined RadioCeylon in the...
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(SEAC) that took over the operations of Colombo Radio, a Ceylonradio station launched in 1925. Radio programmes were broadcast across Asia to the allied forces...
the Colombo Plan to work in RadioCeylon. He was appointed Director of the newly formed Commercial Service of RadioCeylon. The Colombo Plan was established...
Fernando, Sri Lankan lyricist Elmo Fernando, Sri Lankan announcer with RadioCeylon Eric Fernando, SLBC English-language broadcaster Frank Marcus Fernando...
Livy Wijemanne (1917 – 2002) was a pioneer of RadioCeylon. He was one of Sri Lanka's greatest broadcasters. On 31 October 1948, the Post Master General...
Greg Roskowski was an announcer of RadioCeylon during the height of the station's popularity in the 1950s in the Indian Subcontinent. Roskowski, born...
Corporation (SLBC), formerly known as RadioCeylon, and the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. The SLBC is the oldest radio station in South Asia and the second...
Eardley Peiris was a radio announcer with RadioCeylon who joined the radio station in the late 1950s and enjoyed huge popularity with millions of listeners...
launched, to compete with RadioCeylon. Television broadcasting began in Delhi in 1959 as part of AIR, but was split off from the radio network as Doordarshan...
he presented his Binaca Geetmala program of hits over the airwaves of RadioCeylon. He was one of the most imitated announcers. His style of addressing...
RadioCeylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, taking over the helm from John Lampson of the BBC. Livy Wijemanne (Sri Lanka), pioneer of Radio...
Monte Carlo Doualiya Radio Sawa Gulf Saudi Broadcasting Corporation Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation formerly known as RadioCeylon Broadcasting Corporation...
entitled Nurthi, is the first recorded album to come out of Sri Lanka via RadioCeylon. The station, which had long held a monopoly over Sri Lanka's airwaves...
longstanding announcer with RadioCeylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. Fernando presented some of RadioCeylon's most popular radio programs such as Housewives'...
pioneer of RadioCeylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. She was one of the radio station's first female newsreaders and a presenter of radio programs...
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