Sri Lankadeepa

Sri Lankadeepa
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Times of Ceylon Limited
Founded1951 (1951)
LanguageSinhala
CityColombo
CountryCeylon
Sister newspapers

Sri Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL).[1][2] It was founded in 1951 and was published from Colombo.[1][2] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 118,561.[2] It had an average circulation of 133,093 in 1970, 85,654 in 1973 and 55,000 in 1976.[3][4][5]

TOCL was nationalised by the Sri Lankan government in August 1977.[1] The state-run TOCL faced financial and labour problems and on 31 January 1985 it and its various publications closed down.[1] Ranjith Wijewardena, chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) before it was nationalised in July 1973, bought the trade names and library of the TOCL publications in 1986.[1][6] Wijewardena's company, Wijeya Newspapers, subsequently started various newspapers using the names of former TOCL publications.[1] Irida Lankadeepa started publishing in 1986.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Karunanayake, Nandana (2008). "18: Sri Lanka". In Banerjee, Indrajit; Logan, Stephen (eds.). Asian Communication Handbook 2008. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. pp. 446–460. ISBN 9789814136105.
  2. ^ a b c Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 317–318.
  3. ^ Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (2010). Electoral Politics in an Emergent State: The Ceylon General Election of May 1970. Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-521-15311-9.
  4. ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 349–351.
  5. ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 365–366.
  6. ^ Daniel, Smriti (3 June 2012). "The humble 'J' in the Wijeya wheel". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).