Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation

Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
Type Broadcast Television network
Branding Rupavahini Corporation
Country Sri Lanka
Availability National
Slogan The National Television of Sri Lanka
Headquarters Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, P.O.Box 2204, Independence Square, Baudhaloka Road, Colombo 07
Broadcast area
Sri Lanka
Owner Government of Sri Lanka
Key people
Mr. Ravi Jayawardena (Chairman)
Prof: M Sunil Shantha (Director General Rupavahini)
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Established Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) Act no 6 of 1982
Launch date
14 February 1982 (1982-02-14)
Channel 1
Rupavahini
Channel 2
Channel Eye
Channel 3
Nethra TV
Channel 4
NTV
Official website
www.rupavahini.lk

The Sri Lanka Rūpavāhinī Corporation (SLRC) ( ශ්‍රී ලංකා රූපවාහිනී සංස්ථාව; இலங்கை ரூபவாகினி கூட்டுத்தாபனம்) , also known as Jathika Rupavahini (lit. National Television) is the national television network of Sri Lanka. Gifted by the people of Japan to the people of Sri Lanka, mainly for the provision of education, information and entertainment.

Established by Parliament under Act No. 6 of 1982 for the provision of a national television service, it produces and broadcasts programmes in three languages. Distinguished civil servant M.J Perera was the Founder Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC).

SLRC is the largest television broadcaster in Sri Lanka and has an island-wide reception of its channels. SLRC broadcasts its channels in both VHF and UHF frequencies in Sri Lanka. Currently, all of the network's services are only available by analog transmission. But there are plans to upgrade to digital broadcasting. From 2011 Kokavil Transmitting starts DVB-T2 for North area in Sri Lanka. There were plans to Transmit the DVB-T2 Digital Transmission all over the country in 2015. The existing Analogous Transmission will be completely cut off.

History

Rūpavāhinī was created under a government act on January 23, 1982 and established on February 14th the same year.

Rupavahini began broadcasting on February 15, 1982, one day after it was established, with an opening speech from J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lanka's president at the time, after being donated by the Japanese government. Both transmitters were built and installed by Japanese technicians.

In 1986, Rupavahini expanded their facilities and, in 1998, rehabilitated most of the original equipment using digital technology under three grant aid projects from the Government of Japan. Its studio complex is situated in Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka. The complex comprises a Master Control room, four studios, two dubbing studios, a Digital Post Production unit, two Analogue Post production units, several editing suites including Non Linear Editing and four Outside Broadcast vehicles.

Rupavahini 2 launched in April 1999 before it changed its name to the current name of Channel Eye in August 2000.

On January 1, 2008, Channel Eye became a timeshared channel, altering with the newly created Nethra TV.

Rupavahini is the first Sri Lankan channel to telecast foreign tele dramas. The most popular of them was Oshin, which was a Japanese teledrama dubbed with Sinhala.

In December 2014, the main channel was made available via satellite to Europe (via Eutelsat 70B), prompting the channel to temporarily go 24/7 (still doing the formal start and end of transmission routines) in order to alleviate timezone differences. Due to unknown reasons, the channel was removed. The channel now starts shortly before 04:00 and ends shortly after midnight.

Rupavahini's logo is a bird, more specifically a hill mynah carrying a message in gold on a red TV screen. It is generally accompanied by the channel's name in Sinhala, Tamil and a transliteration of Sinhala, with macrons (RŪPAVĀHINĪ). The leaf was incorporated into NTV's previous symbol and is also being incorporated into trophies held at award shows organized by the corporation, the Ape Gamana logo and the SLRC's news operation.

Currently the SLRC operates three channels over two frequencies.

Sister Channels

Management and Funding

It is an autonomous corporation run by Chairman, Director General and a board of directors appointed by the president. Until 1998 there was a subscription system to earn funds by having a subscription system, so that every television owner with VHF reception has to pay government a fee yearly. After a parliament act its programming and broadcasts fundings were made by television advertising and government grants.

See also

References

  1. "Management". 13 September 2015.
  2. "Playing TV - "Prime TV" and "N TV"". TV & Radio Sri Lanka.


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