Editing History of broadcasting (section)

== The 2000s ==
[[File:A Kerbango.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The "[[Kerbango]] Internet Radio" was the first stand-alone product that let users listen to Internet radio without a computer.]]

=== Australia ===
In Australia, from August 2009, digital radio was phased in by geographical region. Today, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]], [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]], commercial and [[community radio]] stations operate on the [[AM broadcasting|AM]] and FM bands.  Most [[List of radio stations in Australia|stations]] are available on the [[internet]] and most also have [[digital radio|digital]] outlets. By 2007, there were 261 commercial stations in Australia.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

=== Sri Lanka ===
In [[Sri Lanka]] in 2005, in a celebration of 80 years of history of broadcasting, the former Director-General of the [[Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation]], Eric Fernando, called for the station to take full advantage of the digital age – this included looking at the archives of [[Radio Ceylon]]. Ivan Corea asked the President of Sri Lanka, [[Mahinda Rajapakse]], to invest in the future of the SLBC.<ref name="Eighty Years">{{cite web|title=Eighty Years in Broadcasting in Sri Lanka (Daily News, Colombo) |url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/27/fea02.htm |access-date=2008-09-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925204950/http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/27/fea02.htm |archive-date=2008-09-25 }}</ref>