Analog Radio Channels Operate in Sri Lanka

City FM	92.2MHz	Sinhala	Active
CRI SRI LANKA	102.0MHz	Sinhala, Tamil, English and Chinese	Active
FM Derana	92.4MHz, 94.5MHz, 95.8MHz, 99.2MHz, 102.3 MHz	Sinhala	Active
E FM	100.4MHz, 93.2MHz, 95.8MHz, 99.2MHz, 102.3 MHz	English	Active
Gold FM	99.9MHz, 94.7MHz, 102.7MHz, 104.2MHz	English	Active
Hiru FM	94.7MHz, 95.3MHz, 96.7MHz, 107.0MHz	Sinhala	Active
HITZ FM	97 MHz	English	Active
Isira FM	88.0MHz, 89.0Mhz, 93.7MHz, 93.9MHz, 97.2MHz	Sinhala	Active
Isura FM	93.6 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Kiss FM	89.8 MHz	English	Active
Lak FM	92.0 MHz,93.3 MHz, 100.1 MHz, 100.2 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Lakhanda	97.6MHz, 87.9MHz, 88.5MHz	Sinhala	Active
Lakviru FM	91.6 MHz	Sinhala
Lite	89.2MHz, 98.2MHz, 92.5 MHz, 90 MHz	English	Active
Max Radio	90.6MHz	Sinhala	Active
Neth FM	93.9 MHz, 95.0 MHz, 100.4 MHz, 105.4 MHz, 105.9 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Prime Radio (Previously Radio 1)	95.5 MHz, 99.9 MHz, 104.5 MHz	English	Active
Ran FM	91.5 MHz, 95.0 MHz, 101.3 MHz, 102.2 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Rangiri	91.7 MHz, 96.7 MHz, 98.1 MHz, 107.2 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Real Radio	87.8 MHz, 93.9 MHz, 106.7 MHz	English	Active
Rhythm FM (formerly Asura FM)	87.6 MHz, 95.6 MHz, 100.7 MHz	Sinhala	Active
* Test ( formely Sath FM )	103.6 MHz, 103.0 MHz, 103.6 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Seth FM	101.5 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Shakthi FM	103.8MHz, 105.1MHz, 91.2MHz, 91.5MHz	Tamil	Active
Shree FM	99MHz, 99.3MHz, 93.2MHz, 98.8MHz, 95.8MHz	Sinhala	Active
SLBC - English National Service	90.9 MHz, 95.6 MHz, 96.4 MHz, 96.4 MHz, 98.4 MHz, 99.6 MHz, 100.2 MHz	English	Active
SLBC - Sinhala National Service (Swadeshiya Sevaya)	90.3 MHz, 90.3 MHz, 97.0 MHz, 98.3 MHz, 99.6 MHz, 102.0 MHz, 107.6 MHz	Sinhala	Active
SLBC - Sinhala Commercial Service (Velanda Sevaya)	93.3FM, 106.9FM, 92.7FM	Sinhala	Active
SLBC - Tamil National Service	94.2 MHz, 98.8 MHz, 101.3 MHz, 102.0 MHz, 102.4 MHz, 103.5 MHz, 104.8 MHz	Tamil	Active
SLBC - Tamil Commercial Service (Thendral)	92.2 MHz, 92.8 MHz, 94.2 MHz, 104.5 MHz, 104.8 MHz, 105.6 MHz, 105.6 MHz, 107.9 MHz	Tamil	Active
SLBC - Vidula Children's Service	102.6 MHz	Sinhala, Tamil and English	Active
Sirasa FM	106.6MHz, 88.8MHz, 106.5MHz, 106.2MHz, 101.7MHz	Sinhala	Active
Siyatha FM	90.9MHz, 107.6MHz, 98.6MHz	Sinhala	Active
Sooriyan FM	90.9MHz, 107.6MHz, 98.6MHz	Tamil	Active
Sun Fm	98.8MHz	English	Active
TNL Radio	101.7 MHz, 87.9 MHz	English	Active
V FM	100.4 MHz, 104.0 MHz, 107.6 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Vasantham FM (previously Radio 2 on this frequency)	97.6 MHz	Tamil	Active
Vettri FM	99.6 MHz, 101.5 MHz, 106.1 MHz	Tamil	Active
Y FM	92.6 MHz, 101.3MHz, 91.2MHz, 99.1MHZ	Sinhala	Active
Yes FM	88.2 MHz, 88.2 MHz, 89.5 MHz, 101.0 MHz	English	Active
Youth Radio	107.9 MHz, 100.7 MHz, 104.4 MHz, 104.8 MHz	Sinhala	Active
Your Radio	88.3 MHz	English	Active
The Budhhist	104.5 MHz	Sinhala,English	Active

SLRC On Digital

The network broadcasts services,Rupavahini, Nethra TV (which broadcasts in Tamil), Channel Eye and NTV (which broadcast in English). Since 1st January 2008 Nethra TV and Channel Eye share the same broadcast frequency. The shared channel is known as Nethra Eye. Currently, all of the network's services are only available by analog transmission. But there are plans to upgrade to digital broadcasting. From 2011 Kokawil 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 excisting Analogous Transmission will completely cut off.

From Wikipedia

DRM News

News

An update on ITU activity

11-May-11

At the last meeting there was good support for adoption from many countries (administrations), but also a call for more test results. Over the last 6 months, DRM Consortium members and others have been working hard on setting up new trial sites, conducting measurements and producing reports of these trials. For the WP6A meeting starting this week in Geneva, DRM has submitted four reports: the band II trials in Sri Lanka and the UK, the band I trial in Italy and the SFN trial in Germany.

All these inputs can be viewed on the drm website. DRM will again be present at the meeting.

Report from Lindsay Cornell, DRM Technical Committee Chairman

Pay Television Networks in Sri Lanka

1 PEO TV (SLT Visioncom)                                   IPTV (ADSL and WiMAX)- September 2008
2 Lanka Broadband Networks (LBN)                    Analog/Digital Cable -2000
3 Dialog TV                                                              Digital Satellite- 2005
4 Comet Cable(Not functioning since 2009)        Analog Microwave- 1999
5 New service                                                          Digital MMDS - Testing                                                    

Analog Terrestrial Networks in Sri Lanka

1 Independent Television Network (ITN)       State-owned Sinhala     April 13, 1979
2 Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation            State-owned Sinhala       February 15, 1982
3 Channel One MTV                                   Private English               December 14,1992
4 TNL                                                       Private Sinhala / English    June 21,1993
5 ETV                                                     Private English                  1995
6 Swarnavahini                                         Private Sinhala             March 16,1997
7 Sirasa TV                                              Private Sinhala          June 10,1998
8 Shakthi TV                                             Private Tamil            October 20, 1998
9 Channel Eye                                       State-owned English     August 20, 2000
10 TV Lanka                                          Private Sinhala              December 05,2001
11 ART Television                                  Private English            July 21,2003
12 Derana TV                                       Private Sinhala              October 11, 2005
13 Max TV                                        Private Sinhala / English /Tamil   January 17, 2007
14 Nethra TV                                    State-owned Tamil         January 01, 2008
15 Vasantham TV                           State-owned Tamil       June 25, 2009
16 Siyatha TV                                    Private Sinhala           September 17, 2009
17 Vettri TV                                          Private Tamil           September 17, 2009
18 Prime TV                                         State-owned English     November 12, 2009
19 NTV                                                State-owned English      November 18, 2009
20 DAN Tamiloli                                   Private Tamil               2009
21 VIS3 - CCTV News                         Private English               May 07, 2010
22 Carlton Sports Network - CSN        Private Sinhala / English        March 07, 2011
23 The Buddhist TV                            Private Sinhala           April 08, 2011

Public Benefit of the DTV Transition

Digital TV has provided a host of important public benefits:

It has freed up parts of the broadcast spectrum for public safety communications (police/fire/rescue).
It has allowed some of the spectrum to be auctioned to companies that will be able to provide
consumers with more advanced wireless services (such as wireless broadband).
It has allowed stations to offer improved picture and surround sound (enhanced audio).
It has expanded programming choices for viewers. For example, a broadcaster can now offer multiple digital programs simultaneously (multicasting).
It has provided interactive video and data services that were not possible with analog technology


Difference Between Analog and DTV Broadcasting:

DTV is an advanced broadcasting technology that replaces analog over-the-air broadcasting. Digital broadcasting allows stations to offer improved picture and sound quality along with a host of other advantages over analog broadcasting.
For example, rather than being limited to providing one analog program, a broadcaster is able to offer a super sharp High Definition (HD) digital program or multiple Standard Definition (SD) digital programs simultaneously. Digital television offers many advantages over analog television for viewing broadcast TV


Need for DTV Picture Reception Over-The-Air:

 need one of the following:

• A TV set with a digital tuner.
• OR
• An analog TV set connected to a digital-to-analog converter box(STB).

In either case, you will need an appropriate antenna connected to the TV set or the converter box; either an outdoor rooftop antenna or an indoor antenna.
If you have a digital TV set, you will not need any additional equipment (with the exception of an antenna) to receive over-the-air digital broadcast programming. However if you have an analog TV set, a digital converter box must be connected between the antenna and the analog TV to receive and display over-the-air digital programming