Sri Lanka possesses Asia's (and the world's) oldest radio station. Radio Ceylon used to be the name of the station. It grew into one of the world's most prestigious broadcasting institutions. The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is now the name of the company. When the Telegraph Department began broadcasting in Ceylon on an experimental basis in 1923, just three years after broadcasting in Europe, Sri Lanka made Asian broadcasting history. A modest transmitter created by Telegraph Department engineers using the radio equipment of a captured German submarine was used to broadcast gramophone music from a tiny chamber in the Central Telegraph Office. This radio trial was a big success, and a regular broadcasting service was established only three years later, on December 16, 1925. Edward Harper, who arrived in Ceylon in 1921 as Chief Engineer of the Telegraph Office, was the first person in the country to actively push radio. With broadcasting services launched just thre...
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