Thendral (SLBC)
The history of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation dates back to year 1925, when its first pre-cursor, “Colombo Radio”, was launched on 16th December 1925 using a Medium Wave radio transmitter of one kilowatt of output power from Welikada, Colombo. Commenced just 03 years after the launch of BBC, Colombo radio was the first ever radio station in Asia.
This new medium of mass communication not only became increasingly popular in the years that followed, but also quickly evolved into a medium of national character, which led to the “Radio Service” being organized as a separate department of the government of Ceylon(as country was then called) by the ‘call sign’ ‘Radio Ceylon’ in 1949.Subsequently in 1967, the Department of Broadcasting was transformed into its present statutory form of a state corporation by the Ceylon broadcasting corporation Act. No 37 of 1966 of the parliament of Ceylon,thereby assuring increased autonomy and flexibility in the operations of the new organization.
The organization acquired its present name, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation,with the transition of the state into the status of “Republic of Sri Lanka”on 22nd May 1972. SLBC has since continued in the same legal status as a state corporation, and is currently listed under the scope of the ministry of Information and Media of the Government of Sri Lanka.
At present, SLBC’s Islandwide (domestic) FM network broadcasts six regular programme channels on a nationwide basis, and those six ‘national’ channels account for the major proportion of its domestic broadcasting.The six channels are,Sinhala Swadeshiya Sevaya’ (Sinhala National Service),Tamil National Service,English Service,City FM (Sinhala),Velenda Sevaya’(Sinhala Commercial Service), and
Thendral (Tamil Commercial Service)
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