Country | Sri Lanka |
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Headquarters | 451, Kandy Road, Kelaniya |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Ownership | |
Owner | IWS Holdings (Private) Limited |
History | |
Launched | 12 December 1995 |
Former names | Dynavision Broadcasting Corporation |
Links | |
Website |
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Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
UHF ( Colombo) | Channel 28 [1] |
UHF ( Kandy) | Channel 52 |
Art Television Broadcasting Co. is a 24-hour analogue terrestrial ( free to air) television channel in Sri Lanka. A privately owned channel that broadcasts English content has its headquarters located in Colombo. Its coverage is viewed on Frequencies UHF – CH28 in Colombo and UHF – CH52 in Kandy. [2] ART Television is owned by the Sri Lankan business conglomerate IWS Holdings (Private) Limited founded by Indulakshin Wickramasinghe Senanayake. [3]
Affiliated with CNN since 1995, the Channel offers 15 hours of CNN daily. [4] It partnered with Cartoon Network in 2009, and relays a daily hour of Cartoon Network on its children's belt ART Toons, [5] in addition to varied entertainment content sourced from leading international suppliers. The station partnered with Cartoon Network in 2009 to launch an eco-awareness campaign in Kandy, which was the first local CSR campaign supported by an international children's channel. [6]
The Channel's daily news bulletin the State of Business is a key business current affairs program in Sri Lanka and conducts prominent business forums. [7] The company has also ventured into local reality series platform partnering with The Model Network, Sri Lanka and Ford Models, New York for the Ford Supermodel of Sri Lanka search. [8] It has collaborated with the British Council in Colombo for the entrepreneurial reality show Ideators in 2010. [9]
Originally incorporated as Dynavision Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, the station introduced Sri Lanka's first stereo broadcast station. [10] The company was repositioned as Art Television Broadcasting Company in July 2003. [11]
Uoosoof Mohideen, who was the CNN representative for Sri Lanka, was the first CEO/Managing Director for Dynavision. Uoosoof Mohideen was also a founding member/partner of ETV (Sri Lanka).