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
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 ...
.
MBC Networks, 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.
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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