Tuesday, March 23, 2010

YOUR Radio - coming soon

Sri Lanka's latest English Language Radio channel part of VIS broadcasting "YOUR Radio" will commence broadcasting soon on 88.3 FM. Presently test transmission of "YOUR Radio" are taking place during the course of the day.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

ETV censoring local news

Reports are coming in of censorship being carried out by local FTA channel ETV. It seems that whenever Sri Lanka related news is being carried on Channel News Asia, ETV censors it. ETV a member of the EAP Edirisinghe Group of Companies most likely wants to obtain the favor of the government.

So far no public announcement has been made by the GOSL asking channels to censor Sri Lanka related news over the international media. Reports of such censoring on other media have not come in as yet. ETV is depriving the general public's right to obtain views on Sri Lanka from different sources.

How can a responsible media institution operated by a high profile group such as the EAP Group, resort to such third grade tactics to obtain government favor?

We urge the Board of Directors of EAP Group to instruct ETV to stop such censorship or all members of the company including the Directors of the group including the Chairperson of the Group Mrs Soma Edirisinghe will be seen as puppets that dance to the tune of the Sri Lankan Government. ETV is management by Vanguard Management Services which is also a part of the EAP Group.

Monday, March 01, 2010

Dan TV disturbing with NTV and Vasantham TV

According to reports reaching us, Dan TV transmissions are disturbing NTV and Vasantham TV on UHF. Several viewers are complaining of the disturbance and have informed the TRC too which is as usual not willing to take any action.

The disturbance of E FM transmission outside colombo was highlighted on this blog several months ago and a few days later TRC frequency monitoring vehicles were seen heading towards Negombo but no action has been taken to rectify the matter.

So the TRC seems powerless to monitor their own frequency allocation, which is a sad situation indeed.

We hope steps are taken to rectify these situations otherwise, we will have so many channels all disturbing each other so badly that no one will be able to enjoy these channels.