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	Radio Ceylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio Ceylon is the oldest radio station in South Asia.
		In the first ever radio experiments in Colombo, gramophone music was broadcast from a tiny room in the Central Telegraph Office with the aid of a small transmitter built by the Telegraph Department engineers from the radio equipment of a captured German submarine.
		Radio Ceylon became a public corporation on 30th September 1967 and the station's name was changed to the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_Ceylon (969 words)

	Radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, created whenever a charged object (in normal radio transmission, an electron) accelerates with a frequency that lies in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
		Radio was used to pass on orders and communications between armies and navies on both sides in World War I; Germany used radio communications for diplomatic messages once its submarine cables were cut by the British.
		Radio remote control: Use of radio waves to transmit control data to a remote object as in some early forms of guided missile, some early TV remotes and a range of model boats, cars and aeroplanes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio (4729 words)

	Radio programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio broadcasts have been a popular entertainment since the 1910s, though popularity has declined a little in some countries since television became widespread.
		In South Asia, Radio Ceylon (the oldest radio station in the region) was the King of the Airwaves from the 1950s and 1960s.
		Radio Ceylon became a public corporation in 1967 and was known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation when the island turned into a republic in 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_programming (313 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vernon Corea was one of the pioneers of this radio station and he was deeply proud to be part of the history of Radio Ceylon.
		Radio was King in South Asia in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and Radio Ceylon really did rule the airwaves - the station was like no other - it led the field in South Asia.
		Radio Ceylon broadcaster Gnanam Rathinam in her book ' The Green Light' (Memories of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka) notes: ' In 1943 the Broadcasting Station premises was sited in a bungalow named The Bower, in Cotta Road, Borella (in the city of Colombo).
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/12/27/fea02.htm (905 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For Indian radio enthusiasts of decades gone by, it was Radio Ceylon that set the standards.
		Radio Ceylon, as it was called from 1949 became a public broadcasting corporation in 1967.
		For Indians of the radio generation, Radio Ceylon was the first introduction to paradise-island and to the world of music.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2006/01/08/fea15.html (961 words)

	Radio Ceylon mourns the death of President John F.Kennedy
		Radio Ceylon, the first radio station in South Asia, broadcast news of both occasions.
		Radio Ceylon highlighted the news of a visit of a delegation from Ceylon which included Dr.N.M.Perera.
		Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia in 1963
	ivan_corea.tripod.com /radioceylon_jfkennedy (887 words)

	Encyclopedia :: Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, created whenever a charged object (e.g.
		The next advance was continuous wave telegraphy, or CW, in which a pure radio frequency, produced by a vacuum tube electronic oscillator was switched on and off by a key.
		Radio- \Ra"di*o-\ A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radiomuscular, radiocarpal.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Radio (4511 words)

	For that old magic
		RADIO CEYLON, once the favourite of listeners across the Indian subcontinent, turned 80 on December 16, 2005.
		The outreach of Radio Ceylon, the mesmerising effect of its broadcasters and the tasteful selection of classy entertainment elevated its broadcasts from the mundane to the magical.
		Radio Ceylon's climb to fame, veterans recall, was with the introduction of commercial broadcasts.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2301/stories/20060127001908700.htm (2058 words)

	Feature
		Radio Ceylon was the 'King of the Airwaves' and Karunaratne Abeysekera enjoyed iconic status as an announcer and presenter of radio programmes.
		He was the voice of Sinhala radio in the 1960s and 1970s from the days of Radio Ceylon, the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation and current Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC).
		But radio was not the only facet of the life of this multi-talented man. He was lyricist, poet, dialogue writer, compere of hundreds of events and he even wrote stories for children.
	www.dailynews.lk /2006/02/03/fea02.htm (668 words)

	Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Governor of Ceylon, Sir Hugh Clifford, inaugurated broadcasting on the new plant on 16 December 1925.
		On 1 October 1949, the subject of radio broadcasting happened to be organised under a government department and came to be known as RADIO CEYLON.
		A BBC officer John Lampson was brought in to head Radio Ceylon.
	www.infolanka.com /people/sisira/slbc.html (1265 words)

	Living in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
		Vernon Corea was born on the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1927
		Radio Ceylon had a splendid reputation as one of the finest broadcasting institutions around the world.
		Radio ruled the airwaves - Radio Ceylon was King - the announcers enjoyed pop star status in South Asia.
	members.tripod.com /ivan_corea/id30.html (3449 words)

	IndiaPost. Indian Radio Station for Bay Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The President of Radio India, Neeti Prakash, says that a long standing vacuum is being filled by this radio station, one that reflects the broadcast standards of Vividh Bharati and Radio Ceylon that many in the Bay Area would remember having heard back home in India.
		Radio India broadcasts can be sampled on KEST 1450 AM radio Sundays 2 pm-3 pm or on their website anytime, www.radioindia.net.
		Radio India is on FM-2, and listeners are required to purchase the radio at a one time cost from Radio India’s retail locations, mostly Indian grocery stores across the Bay Area.
	www.indiapost.com /members/story.php?story_id=3263 (329 words)

	World Music Central - Sri Lanka celebrates 80 years in Broadcasting
		The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation formerly known as Radio Ceylon and before that as Colombo Radio is the oldest radio station in South Asia.
		Radio Ceylon ruled the airwaves in South Asia in the 1950s and 1960s.
		Radio Ceylon was a part of youth culture to many South Asian teenagers growing up in the 1950 and 1960s in the Indian sub-continent.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/2006011112411332 (520 words)

	Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I entered Radio Ceylon (As it was known those days) as a writer, but eventually the glamour of being an actor of radio dramas made me to go for it.
		Most of the radio actors were able to act in stage plays and even films as well.
		Famous radio play "Thaniyatha Thagam" was produced during this period for the Commercial service with the original script of Sillaiyoor Selvarajan being adapted to radio by Vasagar himself.
	balachandran.homestead.com /Radio.html (830 words)

	Radio Ceylon continues to regale Indian hearts
		Earlier known as Radio Ceylon, South Asia's pioneering commercial broadcast station has created a friendship between people in India and Sri Lanka and promoted cultural contacts in ways that SAARC can only dream about and that has withstood Indo-Sri Lanka Accord and the more recent free trade agreement.
		Radio Ceylon took his Brazilian coffee voice and that of his even more gifted brother Hamid, the host of the Ovaltine Amateur Hour, into millions of Indian homes every week.
		Though Sri Lanka Radio's overseas service is now a shadow of its former self and all the top broadcasters are either dead or have moved away, it's popularity is still evident in the 500 letters in various Indian languages that daily flood the office of SLBC, giving sorters nightmares of the pleasant sort.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990522/ile22057.html (732 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While radio broadcasting was still in its earliest stages in Sri Lanka, Radio Ceylon evoked wonder and curiosity.
		Those were days when Radio Ceylon (as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation was then known) had not yet come of age and the production of a programme needed constant technical support.
		I came much closer to him both physically and in work in 1954 when I was entrusted with the organization of the national celebration of Buddha Jayanti to mark the dual occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha's death and the founding of the Sinhala kingdom in Sri Lanka.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/11/28/fea04.html (737 words)

	Vernon - Sri Lanka's pioneering Broadcaster
		Vernon was appointed as an Announcer in Radio Ceylon in 1957 by the Director of the Commercial Service, Clifford R.Dodd.
		Announcers were the 'pop stars' of that generation and Radio Ceylon occupied a very special place in the hearts of South Asians in India, West Pakistan, East Pakistan, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and there were listeners even in Burma.
		Duke Ellington, the great Jazz pianist visited Ceylon in the 1960s, he was whisked to the studios of Radio Ceylon for a recording and he met Vernon (who had taken along his sons to meet the great man).
	ivan_corea.tripod.com /id3.html (2775 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Radio
		Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, created whenever a charged object accelerates with a frequency that lies in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
		When radio waves pass a wire, their oscillating electric or magnetic field (depending on the shape of the wire) induces an alternating current and voltage in the wire.
		The Indian physicist, Jagdish Chandra Bose, demonstrated publicly the use of radio waves in November of 1894 in Calcutta, but he was not interested in patenting his work (see IEEE Virtual Museum).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Radio (3763 words)

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		He was incapable of disloyalty to the traditions of his school, of disloyalty to his superiors or of disloyalty towards his subordinates and it was the special quality of his personality that he managed to balance these contradictory impulses with consummate ease and humour.
		When the culture of Sri Lanka as a whole and the culture of Radio Ceylon in particular changed dramatically post 1970, Vernon was rapidly reduced to the plight of a dinosaur, completely out of place and unable to survive in the harsh new environment.
		Vernon went on to distinguish himself at Radio Worldwide and within a few years was invited by the BBC to head their new, " Ethnic Minorities Unit" where he worked till retirement with great distinction.
	www.vernoncorea.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /appreciations.html (1201 words)

	Americas First Floating Broadcaster
		During that era, the Commercial Service from Radio Ceylon was on the air with just two shortwave transmitters, one at 100 kW and another at 7.5 kW, both located at Ekala, a few miles north of Colombo.
		The VOP, as this program is known affectionately in radio circles, was the first Christian religious program on the air in the new commercial service from Colombo.
		In 1975, I was invited to transfer from Colombo in Sri Lanka to Poona in India for the purpose of co-ordinating the radio ministry for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the 12 countries of the old British India.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/awr_southern_asia.htm (699 words)

	Radio Channel on exchange4media.com
		Ameen Sayani — ‘the golden voice of yesteryears’ — began his radio career in 1951 with Radio Ceylon and later kept millions engrossed with ‘Binaca Geetmala’ on AIR; today he anchors a show on RED FM in addition to producing a number of shows for the network.
		A good radio jingle is one that has a nice, simple tune that touches the heart and sticks in the mind and conveys the message clearly, without any ambiguity.
		Private FM radio is a three-year old medium, and with more than 330 licences being issued in 90 cities, FM as a medium will gain more acceptability and popularity.
	www.exchange4media.com /e4m/Radio/radiospeak.asp?rsid=25 (3545 words)

	The Hindu : International : Tunes from the past
		For aficionados from the `radio generation' spanning the 1950s and 1970s, no day was complete without tuning in to Radio Ceylon, now called the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC).
		Radio Ceylon, as it was called between 1949 and 1972, was catalysed by the shifting of the Radio SEAC (South East Asia Command) to the island in 1949.
		Radio Ceylon was our introduction to Ceylon," recalls Nirupama Rao, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.
	www.thehindu.com /2005/12/20/stories/2005122001402200.htm (379 words)

	F's Place: November 2005
		Radio was King in South Asia in the 1950s,1960s and 1970s and Radio Ceylon really did rule the airwaves - the stationwas like no other - it led the field in South Asia.
		Radio Ceylon became the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation on 5th January 1967 headed by the brilliant Director-General, Neville Jayaweera.
		His maternal ancestors are reported to have arrived in Ceylon as physicians to the Sinhalese King way back in 800 AD.Sameer and his wife Raliya Noordeen, lived at 298 with some of their ten children who were yet to be married.
	kermeey.blogspot.com /2005_11_01_kermeey_archive.html (18949 words)

	Wavescan 445 - Wartime Radio in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We could guess that this transmitter was co-sited with the Radio Ceylon transmitter ZOH at Welikada on the edge of Colombo.
		During the cricket season in Australia, the SEAC transmitter acted as an intermediate relay from Radio Australia in Shepparton to the BBC in London.
		The first regional director for the BBC in Ceylon was a man who had been a prisoner of war in Singapore, James Mudie.
	www181.pair.com /otsw/Wavescan/wavescan445.html (595 words)

	Wavescan Script 445
		During those decisive years in the middle of last century, there was a spate of rapid development in the radio scene on the island of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known in those days.
		We could guess that this transmitter was co-sited with the Radio Ceylon transmitter ZOH at Welikada (VELL-i-CAR-da) on the edge of Colombo.
		The first regional director for the BBC in Ceylon was a man who had been a prisoner of war in Singapore, James Mudie (MEW-DEE).
	english.awr.org /wavescan/scripts/ws445.htm (1165 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| Radio Ceylon mourns the death of President John F.Kennedy
		RADIO CEYLON MOURNS THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT JOHN.F.KENNEDY
		One of Sri Lanka's outstanding broadcasters, Vernon Corea, joined forces with the Peace Corp's first ever volunteer to Ceylon - Craig Thompson in 1963 to present a moving tribute to the late John F.Kennedy, on the day he was assasinated - on the airwaves of Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia.
		Craig Thompson who was with the Peace Corps soon gained popularity in the island of Ceylon by presenting 'Kiddies Korner' on Radio Ceylon.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2019291.html (805 words)

	INDRA RAMANAYAKE: THE NIGHTINGALE OF THE RADIO
		Indra¹s rise to fame within the Radio Ceylon (SLBC) is a tribute to the power and efficiency of modern means of communication.
		When Lanka Udanaya, the half hour Sinhala radio programme in London on Sunrise transmitters, was subjected to criticism for its lack of professionalism and in-depth performance, Indra Ramanayake willingly came forward to serve the Sinhala community and to uplift the Sinhala culture in England.
		Consequently, she volunteered to sacrifice her Friday evenings until midnight (on the day of the radio broadcast) and income amidst all her associated problems of finding baby-minders to look after her son who had to be kept alone at home.
	www.infolanka.com /org/diary/118.html (1761 words)

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		Kesar, banned film music from All-India radio, the commercial service of Radio Ceylon, came to my rescue.
		The 1950's were the golden age of Hindi film music and Radio Ceylon broadcast the songs round the clock.
		Radio in those days, came to mean only Radio Ceylon.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~pkd/sl/archive/world_cup2 (1033 words)

	World Music Central - Remembering Karunaratne Abeysekera of Radio Ceylon
		Publishers in Colombo are poised to reprint the poetry books and stories for children written by the legendary Sri Lankan lyricist, Karunaratne Abeysekera who died in 1983.
		Karunaratne Abeysekera came to prominence as a teenage broadcaster on a children's radio program called 'Lama Pitiya.' He was only 15 years old when he joined the program presented by 'Siri Aiya.' Abeysekera joined the panel of broadcasters of Radio Ceylon in 1950.
		He contributed to the success of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20060202190653993 (421 words)

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