The Hon. (Prof.) Sena Nanayakkara
Prof. Sena Nanayakkara asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media to provide details on the number of television channels currently broadcast in Sri Lanka, separating government and private channels and listing their names. He also sought the Minister’s position on whether a media code of ethics is necessary, how such a code is enforced for television channels, how current programming is monitored, and whether any investigative mechanism will be introduced for television content.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Health and Mass Media:
¶ 02 Television Channels: Introduction of a Code of Ethics (Q. 496/2025)
¶ 03 (a) Will he inform this House the: (i) number of Sri Lankan television channels that are broadcast in Sri Lanka at present; (ii) number of government television channels and the number of private television channels among them, separately; and (iii) names of the government and the private television channels, separately?
¶ 04 (b) Will he also inform this House: (i) whether he accepts that a code of ethics should exist for the media; (ii) the manner in which the aforesaid code of ethics is being enforced in respect of the Sri Lankan television channels; (iii) the manner in which focus has been made on the programmes that are being broadcast on television channels at present; (iv) whether an investigative course of action is going to be implemented in respect of the programmes concerned; and (v) if so, the manner in which such course of action is going to be implemented?
¶ 05 (c) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. (Prof.) Sena Nanayakkara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 July 2025. No. 1752482630017444. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/10834