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  Radio programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radio broadcasts have been a popular entertainment since the 1920s, though popularity has declined a little in some countries since television became widespread.
Broadcasting in Ceylon was launched by British Engineer, Edward Harper in 1925.
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   (309 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canada's government-owned radio and television broadcaster.
The CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, was established in 1932 by the government of R.B. Bennett after an intense lobbying campaign by Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt of the Canadian Radio League which had been set up in 1930 to campaign for the implementation of recommendations by the Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities are private affiliates of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters and air a predominantly CBC schedule.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation   (4504 words)

  
 Radio programming
Radio broadcasts have been a popular entertainment since the 1910s, though popularity has declined a little in some countries since television became widespread.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, television eroded the popularity of most of these type of radio shows, and by the late 1950s radio broadcasting took on much the form it has today — strongly focused on music, news and sports, though drama can still be heard, especially on the BBC.
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in what is now called old-time radio or the "Golden Age of Radio", with surviving shows being traded and collected in reel-to-reel, cassette, CD, and MP3 format.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/radio_programming.html   (356 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sri Lanka's media outlets are generally divided along linguistic and ethnic lines, with state and private media operators providing services in the main languages.
Many of the broadcasters and publishers are owned by the government, including two major TV stations, radio networks operated by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), and newspaper titles in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
As a result of this it is very rare to see Sri Lankan newspapers engage in investigative journalism or daring exposes of big business.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Media_in_Sri_Lanka   (249 words)

  
 Dhamma News : Dhammathai.org : Buddhishm World Wide Web
Sixty six articles have been written by the late writer.
Under the Buddhist programs of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) he gave a series of talks under the titles of 'The word of the Buddha', and 'In the steps of the Sakyamuni".
Buddhist ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka published by the Society in the same year - is an original piece of writing by him.
www.dhammathai.org /e/news/m01/bnews07_5.php   (449 words)

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