Editing Vernon Corea (section)

==Television==
Vernon Corea created television history on the island of Sri Lanka when he was invited to present the first ever experimental television broadcast on 15 June 1972 by the ''Radio Society of Ceylon.'' He appeared on television screens in Colombo, in black and white, on a short TV programme, this was history in the making.<ref name="Experimental Television">{{cite web |title=Vernon Corea – on the first ever television experimental program in Sri Lanka|url=http://members.tripod.com/ivan_corea/id33.html|access-date=4 September 2008}}</ref> Seven years later the first regular television transmission was conducted in Sri Lanka and the first TV presenter on that regular transmission was Vernon Corea's cousin, [[Vijaya Corea]] – he introduced his cousin to radio by asking him to present 'Kiddies Corner' a popular children's programme on Radio Ceylon in the 1960s.<ref name="Vijaya Corea">{{cite web|title=Yesteryear's voice of showbiz (Daily News, Colombo)|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/07/15/fea10.asp|access-date=4 September 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604150117/http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/07/15/fea10.asp|archive-date=4 June 2011}}</ref> Vijaya Corea was one of many young broadcasters ''mentored'' by Vernon Corea – he went on to become the Director-General of the [[Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation]]. Another protégé was [[Nihal Bhareti]] who went on to greater height heights in broadcasting and was the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation's Director of English Services.<ref name="Nihal Bhareti">{{cite web |title=Happenings:La Musique d'Yvonne|url=http://www.island.lk/2002/08/25/leisur10.html|access-date=4 September 2008}}</ref> [[Leon Belleth]] was another mentee, after a successful career with Radio Ceylon/SLBC he retired in Australia.

There are now several television stations operating on the island, a far cry from the early experiments of the Radio Society of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1972.<ref name="Radio Society of Sri Lanka">{{cite web |title=Radio Society of Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon|url=http://www.qsl.net/rssl/|access-date=4 September 2008}}</ref>