Channel Eye

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Channel Eye
Channel Eye logo
Channel Eye logo
Launched 1999 (1999)
Network Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
Owned by Government of Sri Lanka
Picture format 576i 4:3 (SDTV)
Slogan "World Through Eye"
Country Sri Lanka
Language Sinhalese / English
Broadcast area Sri Lanka
Headquarters P.O.Box 2204, Independence Square, Baudhaloka Road, Colombo 07
Formerly called Rupavahini 2 (prior to 2000)
Timeshift service Nethra TV
Website www.channeleye.lk
Streaming media
http://www.channeleye.lk/eye-live.html

Channel Eye is a Sri Lankan youth and sports channel operated by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. The channel transmits over two programming blocks, as it timeshares with Nethra TV.

History

The channel began broadcasting in April 1999 as Rupavahini 2. In August 2000, it became Channel Eye. Eye comes from the three pillars of the channel: Education, Youth and Entertainment. The founder of Channel Eye is Mr. Piyadasa Ratnasinghe.[1]

The channel airs a wide range of original productions and sporting events. In the first years of Channel Eye, it telecasted documentaries of Discovery Channel

Programming

News and Current Affairs

  • Rupavahini News (English edition)
  • Crosscurrent
  • Press review (English and Tamil)

Entertainment

  • Rise and Shine

Music

  • Café Classics
  • Battle of the Bands Sri Lanka
  • Eye Shuffle

Religion

  • Thought for the Day
  • Dhamma and You

The channel also airs documentaries from various sources, usually old documentaries from the BBC or the Discovery Channel or from Canal France Internationale, of which the SLRC is a member.

English program production team

Director

  • Ms.Sunanda Hettiarachchi

Producers

  • Achala Solomons
  • Dulanka Tennakoon
  • Subhashana Gamage
  • Niroshi Abeysinghe

Sports

Channel Eye is telecasting sport programs of both international and local, mainly the cricket and local motor car racing. The channel also became the official TV broadcaster for six Cricket World Cup tournaments of 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. Channel also broadcast 2007, 2009, 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournaments.

Beside cricket, channel has broadcast all Rugby World Cup tournaments. It was the official broadcast of FIFA World Cup in 2010 and 2014 for Sri Lanka.

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