Greg Roskowski
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Greg Roskowski was an announcer of Radio Ceylon during the height of the station's popularity in the 1950s in South Asia. Roskowski, born of a Polish father and a Japanese mother, was the booming voice of Radio Ceylon's morning radio programs.
The Roskowski family at one time also owned and ran Hotel Nippon, a middle budget hotel and restaurant, situated in the commercial heart of Colombo. Hotel Nippon has one of the earliest oriental restaurants and it exists to this day in downtown Colombo.
According to one-time radio colleague Jimmy Bharucha, Greg Roskowski used to receive fan mail of over 500 letters a day. Listeners to Radio Ceylon enjoyed his 'wakey wakey' style and he introduced the hit sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Bill Haley and the Comets, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley to audiences in Ceylon and beyond.
He was one of a handful 'overseas announcers' working for Radio Ceylon at the time—the others being the American Craig Thompson who co-presented the 'Kiddies Corner' a program for children and Ameen Syani from India who presented 'Binaca Geet Mala' a program of Indian film music.
