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This list of Sri Lankan broadcasters includes notable broadcasters from the country of Sri Lanka This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Jimmy Bharucha, was a Sri-Lankan Parsi broadcaster called a 'colossus in Sri Lanka's broadcasting world'. Bharucha died in Colombo in June 2005. [1]Bharucha who was educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo, had a career in broadcasting spanning 46 years.
She and her team members were booed and attacked by mob during the historic occasion of Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. [6] Within a short period of time, she emerged as a household name in Sri Lanka after venturing into the role of a television news anchor. It was during her tenure, Sri Lankan media had undergone a transformation in visual media. [3]
Vernon Corea (11 September 1927 – 23 September 2002) was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
Stanley Wijesundera [5] - Sri Lankan academic and a Professor of Chemistry, the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo and formerly the Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities; Thevis Guruge [5] - Distinguished broadcaster with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. First Sinhala ...
Livy Wijemanne (1917 – 2002) was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon.He was one of Sri Lanka's greatest broadcasters. On 31 October 1948, the Post Master General (who was also the Director of Broadcasting) appointed the young announcer as an Assistant Controller of Programmes.
Elmo Fernando (died 11 August 2016) [1] was a popular announcer with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation. Fernando was an excellent reader of the news . He joined Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia at a time when it was known as the 'King of the Airwaves' in the 1950s and 1960s.
Later she worked as an announcer and news reader in Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). At the time of her death was working as a freelancer in SLRC. She was the announcer Uthaya Darisanam program on every Sunday at 9:00 a.m to 10:30 a.m. She started her career as an announcer in Jaffna Manikkural local broadcasting service from 1979 to ...