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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dreezone" data-source="post: 20882134" data-attributes="member: 4528">"private entrepreneur Shan Wickremasinghe with support from his cousin Anil Wijewardene and American friend Bob Christy. The first television station Independent TelevisionNetwork (ITN) was initially launched from a single room at Pannipitiya on the outskirts of Colombo, with a limited broadcast range of a mere 30km. Wickremasinghe however was not entirely distanced from the country’s political environment, hisgreat uncle Junius Richard (JR) Jayewardene was the country’s president at the time and it is fair to say that ITN was launched with what Gunaratne describes as the “blessing of the UNP  (UnitedNational Party)” – the ruling party at the time (Gunaratne 2001). ITN’s ‘independence’ however was short-lived. Within a few months, the Jayewardene government which had purportedly supportedWickremasinghe’s ambitious project, took control of the station under an extraordinary government gazette (no 3914) dated June 5, 1979. Gunaratne claims the takeover stemmed from a disagreement between the government and thebusinessmen, but Peiris (1997) suggests it was “probably the well known potency of the impact of television that prompted the government to impose direct controls”. Source: ශාන් කියන කතාව ඇත්ත වෙන්නෙ පුලුවන්. උඩ ලිපිය කියවලා බලන්න. ජොබ්ස් වුනත් අයින් කරපු වෙලේ ගියා. එයා ආපහු ආවේ ඇපල් එකෙන් නැවත එන්න කියලා ආරාධනා කරපු නිසා. </blockquote>

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