Art Television Broadcasting Co. is a 24-hour analogue terrestrial (
free to air) television channel in
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. A privately owned channel that broadcasts English content has its headquarters located in
Colombo. Its coverage is viewed on Frequencies
UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
– CH28 in Colombo and
UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
– CH52 in Kandy. ART Television is owned by the Sri Lankan business conglomerate IWS Holdings (Private) Limited founded by Indulakshin Wickramasinghe Senanayake.
Content
Affiliated with
CNN since 1995, the Channel offers 15 hours of CNN daily. It partnered with Cartoon Network in 2009, and relays a daily hour of
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Car ...
on its children's belt ART Toons, in addition to varied entertainment content sourced from leading international suppliers. The station partnered with Cartoon Network in 2009 to launch an eco-awareness campaign in
Kandy, which was the first local
CSR campaign supported by an international children's channel.
The Channel's daily news bulletin the State of Business is a key business current affairs program in Sri Lanka and conducts prominent business forums. The company has also ventured into local reality series platform partnering with The Model Network, Sri Lanka and Ford Models, New York for the Ford Supermodel of Sri Lanka search. It has collaborated with the British Council in Colombo for the entrepreneurial reality show Ideators in 2010.
History
Originally incorporated as Dynavision Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, the station introduced Sri Lanka's first
stereo
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configuration ...
broadcast station. The company was repositioned as Art Television Broadcasting Company in July 2003.
[ List of television networks in Sri Lanka#cite note-art1-8]
Uoosoof Mohideen, who was the
CNN representative for Sri Lanka, was the first CEO/Managing Director for Dynavision. Uoosoof Mohideen was also a founding member/partner of
ETV (Sri Lanka).
See also
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List of television networks in Sri Lanka
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Media in Sri Lanka
Mass media of Sri Lanka consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. State and private media operators provide services in the main languages Sinhala, Tamil and English. T ...
References
External links
Official WebsiteOfficial Facebook Page
{{Media of Sri Lanka
English-language television stations in Sri Lanka
IWS Holdings
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Mass media in Colombo