Sunday Times of Ceylon

This article is about the defunct newspaper published by Times of Ceylon Limited. For the current newspaper published by Wijeya Newspapers, see The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
Sunday Times of Ceylon
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Times of Ceylon Limited
Founded1923 (1923)
LanguageEnglish
CityColombo
CountryCeylon
Sister newspapers
OCLC number36651712

The Sunday Times of Ceylon was an English language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL).[1][2] It was founded in 1923 and was published from Colombo.[1][2] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 34,856.[2] It was published under different names during its existence, including Times of Ceylon Sunday Illustrated, Times Weekender and Sunday Times.[3][4] It had an average circulation of 29,613 in 1970, 29,054 in 1973 and 18,500 in 1976.[5][6][7]

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][8] Wijewardena's company, Wijeya Newspapers, subsequently started various newspapers using the names of former TOCL publications.[1] The Sunday Times started publishing in 1987.[1]

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  2. ^ a b c Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 317–318.
  3. ^ "Library of Congress Catalogs: Newspapers in Microform, Foreign Countries, 1948-1983". University of North Texas.
  4. ^ "Newspapers held by the South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)" (PDF). Center for Research Libraries.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 349–351.
  7. ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 365–366.
  8. ^ Daniel, Smriti (3 June 2012). "The humble 'J' in the Wijeya wheel". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).