Neville Jayaweera

Neville Jayaweera
Neville Jayaweera addresses a meeting in the boardroom of Radio Ceylon
Born	Sri Lanka
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Occupation	broadcasting executive
Employer	The Government of Sri Lanka
Known for	spearheading the change over of Radio Ceylon to a public corporation
Title	Chairman and Director-General of Radio Ceylon/Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation

Neville Jayaweera is a distinguished civil servant of Sri Lanka. He was handpicked by the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake and the Cabinet Minister of Broadcasting, Ranasinghe Premadasa to be both Chairman and Director-General of Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1967.

Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation

Under his leadership the brand name of the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation was strengthened. The name of the CBC underwent yet another name change in 1972 when Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka. The CBC is now known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.

Chairman and Director General of the CBC Neville Jayaweera with the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake.

The SLBC is the oldest radio station in South Asia and enjoyed the title 'King of the Airwaves' in South Asia from the 1950s-1970s.

See also

• Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
• Radio Ceylon

Publications

• Folk media and development communication - myths and realities : a report on experiences in people's communication in Mexico, India, and the Philippines By Neville Jayaweera.Published in 1991, Asian Social Institute (Manila)
• Some reflections on the theme of continuity and change in Indian culture by Neville Jayaweera,

Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1990

• The role of the churches in the ethnic conflict by Neville Jayaweera, Marga Institute, 2001
• The New Economics of Information by Stonier, Tom., Neville Jayaweera, James Robertson , Intermediate Technology, November 1989 Paperback

External links

• The Official Website of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
• SLBC-creating new waves of history
• Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka

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