Editing History of broadcasting (section)

=== Sri Lanka ===
[[Radio Ceylon]] was popular in the 1950s and 1960s in the Indian sub-continent.<ref name="Radio Ceylon">{{cite web|title=When Ceylon ruled the airwaves |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/01/01/stories/2006010100150400.htm |access-date=2008-09-04 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219081446/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/01/01/stories/2006010100150400.htm |archive-date=2008-12-19 }}</ref> The station developed into the most popular radio network in South Asia. Millions of listeners in India for example tuned into Radio Ceylon. Announcers such as [[Livy Wijemanne]], [[Vernon Corea]],<ref name="Vernon Corea">{{cite web|title=The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon |url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2004/07/18/fea20.html |access-date=2008-09-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216183222/http://sundayobserver.lk/2004/07/18/fea20.html |archive-date=2009-02-16 }}</ref> [[Pearl Ondaatje]], [[Tim Horshington]], [[Greg Roskowski]], [[Jimmy Bharucha]], Mil Sansoni, [[Eardley Peiris]], [[Shirley Perera]], [[Bob Harvie]], [[Christopher Greet]], [[Prosper Fernando]], [[Ameen Sayani]] (of [[Binaca Geetmala]] fame),<ref name="Ameen Sayani">{{cite web|title=That mesmeric voice (Metro Plus, Chennai-The Hindu, India)|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/01/20/stories/2007012001280100.htm|access-date=2008-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322211554/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/01/20/stories/2007012001280100.htm|archive-date=2010-03-22|url-status=usurped}}</ref>[[Karunaratne Abeysekera]],  [[S.P.Mylvaganam]] (the first Tamil announcer on the Commercial Service) were hugely popular across South Asia. The Hindi service helped build Radio Ceylon's fanbase among Hindi speakers in the Indian sub-continent. Gopal Sharma, [[Sunil Dutt]], [[Ameen Sayani]], and [[Hamid Sayani]] were some of the Indian announcers of the station. The Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon was hugely successful under the leadership of [[Clifford Dodd]], the Australian administrator and broadcasting expert who was sent to Ceylon under the [[Colombo Plan]].<ref name="Clifford Dodd">{{cite web|title=Reference to Clifford Dodd in Mervyn Jayasuriya's article: The Three f's behind the microphone(The Island Newspaper) |url=http://lakdiva.com/island/i000102/feature.htm#The%20Three%20f%E2%80%99s%20behind%20the%20radio%20Ceylon%20Microphone |access-date=2008-09-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720141129/http://lakdiva.com/island/i000102/feature.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2008 }}</ref>