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Radio Ceylon also popularised the English songs of Indian popular musicians-they went on to score huge hits, among them Uma Pocha ( Bombay Meri Hai ), Usha Uthup who has the rare distinction of singing Sri Lankan baila songs with ease and the Anglo-Indian star, Ernest Ignatius ( who went on to be a success in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's ' Bombay Dreams ' in London ) had a massive hit, I Married a Female Wrestler, on Radio Ceylon.
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International short wave radio stations such as The Voice of America, BBC, and Radio Ceylon played a major part in bringing Western pop, folk, and rock music to the masses.
** Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon ; the station is subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
In South Asia, Radio Ceylon was the oldest radio station in the region.
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.
The British launched Radio SEAC from Colombo, Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) during World War II.
" Perera ( Sri Lanka ), he made broadcasting history by being the first Ceylonese Director General of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, taking over the helm from John Lampson of the BBC.
* Livy Wijemanne ( Sri Lanka ), pioneer of Radio Ceylon.
A 1903 album, entitled Nurthi, is the first recorded album to come out of Sri Lanka via Radio Ceylon.
The station, which had long held a monopoly over Sri Lanka's airwaves, had been established in 1925, and one of Sri Lanka's pioneering broadcasters, Vernon Corea, almost immediately grasped the opportunity to introduce Sri Lankan Music on the English Services of Radio Ceylon.
This became popular in the country especially through sarala gee programs broadcasted in Radio Ceylon.
This was evident when he was later banned from Radio Ceylon after refusing to audition for Indian musician Ratanjankar, whom the corporation had brought from South India to oversee the direction of music on their stations.
During his tenure as Minister of Broadcasting in Dudley Senanayake's cabinet, Premadasa turned Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, into a public corporation-the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation on 5 January 1967.
The station was known as Radio Ceylon.
Radio Ceylon ruled the airwaves in the 1950s and 1960s in the Indian sub-continent.
Millions of listeners in India for example tuned into Radio Ceylon.
The Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon was hugely successful under the leadership of Clifford Dodd, the Australian administrator and broadcasting expert who was sent to Ceylon under the Colombo Plan.
In Sri Lanka in 2005 when Sri Lanka celebrated 80 years in Broadcasting, the former Director-General of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Eric Fernando called for the station to take full advantage of the digital age-this included looking at the archives of Radio Ceylon.
* Ceylon, Radio.
On 3 October 1957 the Vividh Bharati Service was launched, to compete with Radio Ceylon.
Starting out in radio, Sunil Dutt was a hugely popular on the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
Radio and also
There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).
It was also the first BBS to produce audio for its visitors, broadcasting news about screen printing and music in a pre-recorded method in what was the precursor to Internet Radio.
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.
In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.
In 1995, Charles played The Porter in Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, also on Radio 4.
Charles has also chosen music as a guest of other broadcasters such as Ken Bruce on Radio 2 and Liz Kershaw on 6 Music.
The city is also the home of several talk shows, including former The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV, while Chicago Public Radio produces programs such as PRI's This American Life and NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
The show is also carried on Sirius XM Satellite Radio via both the NPR Now and NPR Talk channels.
He also covered the Sunday morning 11 AM-1 PM show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.
He also hosted six series of Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 from 2004 – 2009.
He also is the host of a conservative talk radio podcast called Howling Mad Radio, which took a short hiatus until March 2009 .< ref >
As well as being home to RTÉ Radio, Dublin also hosts the national radio networks Today FM and Newstalk, and numerous local stations.
There are also numerous community and special interest stations, including Dublin City FM ( 103. 2 MHz ), Dublin South FM ( 93. 9 MHz ), Liffey Sound FM ( 96. 4 MHz ), Near FM ( 90. 3 MHz ), Phoenix FM ( 92. 5 MHz ), Raidió na Life ( 106. 4 MHz ) and West Dublin Access Radio ( 96. 0 MHz ).
: See also Egyptian Radio and Television Union & List of FM radio stations in Egypt
He began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army.
Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.
Capital Radio Scotland and Real Radio Scotland also have transmitters in Edinburgh.
Along with the UK national radio stations, Radio Scotland and the Gaelic language service BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is also broadcast, despite few speakers residing in the city.
The reef has also been claimed by Tonga since 1972, and Tonga's Surveyor General, Tevita Malolo, told Radio New Zealand that Fiji had never contested Tonga's claim until now.
KTV Ltd. also operate two relay stations, KTV Radio Nova ( a rebroadcast of BBC World Service ) and KTV Radio Nova Saint FM ( a rebroadcast of Saint FM ).
At least two BBC Radio 4 dramatisations have also been aired, both of which follow the book very closely.
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