Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation

Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
Company typeGovernment-owned corporation
IndustryMass media
Entertainment
Founded14 February 1982; 42 years ago (1982-02-14)
Area served
Sri Lanka
Key people
Titus Thotawatte
Rosmand Senaratne
Mayura Samarasinghe
RevenueIncrease Rs 1.951 billion (2015)[1]
Negative increase Rs−338.9 million (2015)[1]
Negative increase Rs−371.7 million (2015)[1]
Total assetsDecrease Rs1.985 billion (2015)[1]
Total equityDecrease Rs1.219 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees
Increase 1,030 (2015)[1]
ParentMinistry of Information and Mass Media
SubsidiariesChannel Eye
Nethra TV
NTV
Websitewww.rupavahini.lk

The Sri Lanka Rūpavāhinī Corporation (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා රූපවාහිනී සංස්ථාව; Tamil: இலங்கை ரூபவாகினி கூட்டுத்தாபனம்), also known as Jathika Rupavahini (lit. National Television) or simply as Rupavahini, is the national television network of Sri Lanka. The term Rupavahini literally means "purveyor of images" in the Sinhala language.[2]

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

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 began to broadcast in DVB-T2 for the North area in Sri Lanka. There were plans to transmit DVB-T2 digital television all over the country in 2015. By 2021, however, the government had switched to a plan to use ISDB-T after receiving aid from the Japanese foreign ministry.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation 2015 Annual Report" (PDF). Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Colour TV comes to Sri Lanka". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 6 April 1982. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  3. ^ Munasinghe, Jayasiri (28 December 2012). "Massive digitalization project to transform Lankan television begins today". Daily News. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.