Sirasa FM is a
Sinhala language
Sinhala ( ; , ''siṁhala'', ), sometimes called Sinhalese (), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. Sinhala is also s ...
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
in
Sri Lanka.
MBC Networks
MBC Networks (Pvt) Ltd is a Sri Lankan media company which owns five national radio stations - Shakthi FM, Sirasa FM, Yes FM
'
Yes 101 (100.8, 101.0 F.M.) is an English radio station in Sri Lanka. Yes FM principally plays contemporary hit ...
, a subsidiary of Sri Lankan conglomerate Capital Maharaja Group, operate the radio station. It is one of the three successful radio stations started by MBC Networks in the 1990s. The other two being
Yes FM and
Shakthi FM
Shakthi FM is a Sri Lankan Tamil language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lank ...
.
The programming of the radio station includes talk shows, and Sinhala and Hindi top hits.
Sirasa FM is the first private media organisation to be allowed to
broadcast news in Sri Lanka.
However, Sirasa FM was banned broadcasting news after the station broadcast a false report of a nonexistent countrywide curfew.
The ban was not lifted for two months.
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Contemporary hit radio stations
Sinhala-language radio stations in Sri Lanka
MBC Networks
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