Siyatha TV
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Siyatha TV is a private Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n analog television
Analog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...

 channel currently broadcasting in Colombo
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

 in the Sinhala language. It is owned by the Voice of Asia Network (Pvt) Ltd, which also runs radio
Radio
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 channels named Siyatha FM
Siyatha FM
Siyatha FM is a radio channel based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is owned by Voice of Asiya Ltd., which also runs its sister television channel Siyatha TV. Siyatha FM is available on 98.6 FM in Islandwide 90.9 FM from Colombo.-External links:*...

, Real Radio
Real Radio
Real Radio is a network of adult contemporary independent local radio stations in England, Scotland and Wales and is operated by . Each station broadcasts local breakfast through to drive time shows and network programming in the evening and through the night...

 and Vettri FM
Vettri FM
Vettri FM is a Tamil radio station in Sri Lanka. The channel started broadcasting on 11 February 2008.Vettri FM reached number 1 in Greater Colombo area in the LMRB ratings released in May 2011....

.

Background

Along with their sister channel, Vettri TV
Vettri TV
Vettri TV is a Tamil television service in Sri Lanka. The channel started broadcasting on 17 September 2009, the same day as its Sinhala sister station Siyatha TV....

, the Voice of Asia network (Pvt) began broadcasting Siyatha TV on September 17, 2009 on E32 UHF.

Siyatha TV is the first Sri Lankan terrestrial channel to go simultaneously on satellite through their own DTH platform. This platform currently carry all VOA Television and Radio channels on Intelsat 906 satellite located at 64´E.

Roshantha Kariyapperuma, husband of actress Sangeetha Weeraratne
Sangeetha Weeraratne
Sangeetha Weeraratne is an award-winning actress in the Sri Lankan cinema. She made her debut as a sixteen-year-old with Roy De Silva 's It's a Matter of Time opposite Kamal Addararachchi in 1990. However, she earned immense popularity only after performing in H.D. Premaratne's Saptha Kanya, also...

, owns the Voice of Asia Network which owns Siyatha TV. Roshantha Kariyapperuma's brother, Priyantha Kariyapperuma, is the former Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC).

Firebombing

Early on July 30, 2010, 12 armed men attacked and firebombed the Sithaya TV and radio station, destroying much of the broadcasting equipment . The gunmen forced the staff to kneel at gunpoint, and injured two of them.

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