It is a Shrama Abhimani Award winner (Oct 2009) ,[2] broadcasts content to a wide demographic within Sri Lanka as well as the expatriate community.
Vasantham TV, a second television channel operated by ITN Ltd, broadcasts content in the Tamil language.
200 Mn on the construction of the country's first HD studio complex and started high resolution broadcasting since 30 June 2016.
A one kilowatt (1 KW) transmitter and 65 feet (20 m) transmission tower were used to broadcast the ITN channel within a 15 miles (24 km) radius of the city of Colombo.
[3] The duly appointed authority, the late Mr. D. Thevis L. Guruge (ex-Director General of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) contributed significantly to the early development of the organisation.
Due to the slow development of television in neighbouring India (Doordarshan still broadcast in black and white and was mainly geared at educating farmers), Japanese-made TV sets sold in Sri Lanka were smuggled due to the lack of established presence of foreign brands at the time.
The Lakhanda radio station which originated as a subsidiary of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) was amalgamated with ITN Ltd on 1 April 1997.
This radio station was launched in June 2009 to fulfill the media requirements of the Tamil speaking community within Sri Lanka.
[5][12] ITN Ltd's television channels and radio stations broadcast a variety of different of programmes in Sinhala, Tamil, and English languages.