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SLRC assures coverage without no-balls
By Shanika Udawatte
Uninterrupted coverage of all six balls of the over during the world cup cricket matches was assured to viewers by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation yesterday.

SLRC Chairman Ganganath Dissanayake said Rupavahini had taken up the World Cup telecasting as one of its national duties and thus would make sure that all six balls of an over and other important parts like replays would be shown without advertisements interrupting them.

Prof. Dissanayake said the SLRC was trying to receive a clean feed of the matches - a direct reception without receiving it via another channel. He said this would minimise the problem of foreign advertisements popping up at unwanted times such as before the end of an over or when a replay was being shown.

With the cricket World Cup starting today SLRC has also expanded the coverage by its Eye channel to enable more cricket fans to watch their heroes in action.

SLRC started to transmit its Eye channel yesterday via a transmission tower at Enselwatte in Deniyaya. The Moneragala, Hambantota, Matara and Galle districts and parts of Ratnapura and Kalutara districts would be covered by this new transmission.

SLRC Additional Director General Upali Arambewela said that areas of these districts which had earlier received the Eye channel would get a better reception now and this transmission would cater to more than three million viewers.

SLRC officials said the transmission could be received on UHF channel 41 with the antenna normally in use and that no additional antenna accessories would be required.

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