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The BBC world service stop providing radio network to the SLBC
SRI LANKA- The BBC world service has stopped providing radio news to the Sri Lanka broadcasting corporation. The BBC said.
Reason for this what it call ?deliberate interference? statement from the BBC courted out. BBC said it had expressed its concern directly to SLBC Chairman Hudson samarasinghe in a series of letter and meetings in December and January.
We have no choice but to suspend broadcasts until such time as SLBC can guarantee our programming is transmitted without interference?, the statement said.
The BBC noted 17 instances of interference to BBC Tamil and eight similar instances to BBC Sinhala broadcasts between November 27 and early January. Sometimes whole current affairs segments of BBC programming were not broadcast on SLBC,? the statement said.
The BBC says it will maintain its services in Sinhala, Tamil and English on short wave radio and online. BBC news reports in English are to continue on the Sri Lankan commercial radio broadcaster, MBC. -lankaenews
Reason for this what it call ?deliberate interference? statement from the BBC courted out. BBC said it had expressed its concern directly to SLBC Chairman Hudson samarasinghe in a series of letter and meetings in December and January.
We have no choice but to suspend broadcasts until such time as SLBC can guarantee our programming is transmitted without interference?, the statement said.
The BBC noted 17 instances of interference to BBC Tamil and eight similar instances to BBC Sinhala broadcasts between November 27 and early January. Sometimes whole current affairs segments of BBC programming were not broadcast on SLBC,? the statement said.
The BBC says it will maintain its services in Sinhala, Tamil and English on short wave radio and online. BBC news reports in English are to continue on the Sri Lankan commercial radio broadcaster, MBC. -lankaenews
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