| Neville Jayaweera | |
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Neville Jayaweera addresses a meeting in the boardroom of Radio Ceylon |
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| Born | Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Occupation | broadcasting executive |
| Employer | The Government of Sri Lanka |
| Known for | spearheading the change over of Radio Ceylon to a public corporation |
| Title | Chairman and Director-General of Radio Ceylon/Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation |
Neville Jayaweera is a distinguished civil servant of Sri Lanka. He was handpicked by the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake and the Cabinet Minister of Broadcasting, Ranasinghe Premadasa to be both Chairman and Director-General of Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1967.
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Under his leadership the brand name of the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation was strengthened. The name of the CBC underwent yet another name change in 1972 when Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka. The CBC is now known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
The SLBC is the oldest radio station in South Asia and enjoyed the title 'King of the Airwaves' in South Asia from the 1950s-1970s.
Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1990