Sunday, June 01, 2008

SLBC drops MW Tamil service to India

From 1st June 2008, Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has stopped the MW Service on 873 kHz to Indian listeners. This frequency was mainly used for Tamil Service. This particular service started on 1925 & at present the only MW Tamil service from SLBC is on 855 kHz for the Sri Lankan Tamil listeners. Few years back they stopped the evening service on 873 KHz. From January 2008 they reduced the morning service. According to the SLBC officials, they didn't get advertisement for that service, they spend three lahks Rupees per day to transmitt the programme to South India. Here in Tamil Nadu so many private FM's acquired the SLBC clients for the advertisement. This is also the one of the reason to stop the well known historical service.
(Via : T.Jaisakthivel, Chennai)

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