Sirasa FM is a Sinhala language radio station in Sri Lanka.[1] MBC Networks, a subsidiary of Sri Lankan conglomerate Capital Maharaja Group, operate the radio station. It is one of the three successful radio stations started by MBC Networks in the 1990s. The other two being Yes FM and Shakthi FM.[2] The programming of the radio station includes talk shows, and Sinhala and Hindi top hits.[3] Sirasa FM is the first private media organisation to be allowed to broadcast news in Sri Lanka.[4] However, Sirasa FM was banned broadcasting news after the station broadcast a false report of a nonexistent countrywide curfew.[5] The ban was not lifted for two months.[6]
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SirasaFM is a Sinhala language radio station in Sri Lanka. MBC Networks, a subsidiary of Sri Lankan conglomerate Capital Maharaja Group, operate the...
Sports) which was established in 1992. Sirasa TV was started in 1998 as a sister to its radio network SirasaFM. Sirasa TV is owned by the Sri Lankan business...
live on three TV channels (Sirasa TV, Shakthi TV, TV 1, five radio channels (SirasaFM, Yes FM, Shakthi FM, Y FM and Legends FM), three websites in Sinhala...
SLBC broadcast on medium wave until 1993 when FM broadcasting began. 95% of the country received FM transmissions by 1999. The government maintained...
channels [permanent dead link]. Daily News. YuppTV forays into Sri Lankan market via Sirasa and Shakthi TV Archived 2015-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. v t e...
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pioneer of private broadcasting in Sri Lanka. He was the founder of SirasaFM and Sirasa TV stations, which marked a turning point in Sri Lanka's radio and...
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media company which owns three national television channels - Shakthi TV, Sirasa TV and TV 1. It also owns the Hit TV, News First and Ethalaya.com. The company...
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contained content the government disliked. The main private TV network Sirasa was repeatedly threatened by minister Mervyn Silva, attacked by a petrol...
operates 5 FM Radio channels in 3 languages: ‘SirasaFM’ – Sinhala, ‘Shakthi FM’ – Tamil, YES FM – English, ‘96.6 Legends’- English and Y-FM – a multilingual...
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(Pvt) Ltd, which also runs radio channels named Siyatha FM, Real Radio, Kiss FM and Vettri FM. Along with their sister channel, Vettri TV, the Voice of...
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cameramen respectively. while they were working on Sirasa tv they also did some comedy sketches in SirasaFM around 2002 and got the experience in both TV...
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Tsunami. In 2019, she joined the radio play Adara Wedilla produced by SirasaFM. She also contested in the reality show Mega Star under the team "Sooryans"...
vested interests. On November 22, 2014, A domestic Sri Lanka TV channel Sirasa TV, a part of Capital Maharaja Conglomerate, hosted what experts called...
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