Live Transmission via Satellite-Kandy Esala Perahera 2013

The Grand Pageant of Asia

As you aware, in srilanka during the August Full moon the great pageant of kandy resplendent with a hundred caparisoned elephants accompanied by hundreds of traditional dancers and drummers parading the streets recreating the ancient glory enliven a pantheon of cultural delights every year. This year the festivities that begins on August 11th, heightens on the full moon day on August 20th and culminates with the Day Perahera on 21st.

The procession of the sacred Tooth relic conducted annually during the month of July constitutes the grandest festive ritual of the Sri Dalada Maligawa. Thousands of local and foreign visitors of all walks of life, irrespective of their religious pursuits, gathers to hill capital, Kandy, to rejoice in a festive mood on the days of this event. Generally, the Devale processions in a mini scale are held for 5 days, followed by the “kumbal†and “Randoli†processions each held for five days ending up on the full moon day. The day following the last Randoli, the water cutting ceremony and the day procession are held bringing the festival to an end.

Sri Dalada Maligawa- Kandy, wish to air this year’s Esala festivity via satellite on the 20th of August with the intention of promoting and propagating the ancient Customs and Traditions of our island nation, simultaneously contributing towards the enhancement of tourism.

An earnest request is made from you to create an awareness among TV stations in your esteemed nation and grant us the technical support (with satellite link) in which they would be interested to telecast this Grand Pageant for their viewers as we are providing the uplink facility, free of charge. We assure that there will be commercial value in broadcasting this event via their channel.

The above broadcast can be facilitated by the raw- feed provided by the MEDIA & SPCIAL PROJECTS BUREAU- Sri Dalada Maligawa- transmitted through satellite and facilitated to be received by respective TV stations.

The above broadcast is expected to boost the awareness of sri lanka and its cultural traditions among other country’s noble citizens. This provides foreign nations to possess our Traditional values, culture and celebrate our grand event together. Therefore we hope you will do the needful to broadcast this Splendid Pageant.

Your generous contribution towards this event shall be highly appreciated.

Basic Satellite Parameters

Satellite:

Asiasat 5 @ 100.5 deg East

Band:

C Band

Bandwidth:

4.5 MHz

Encoding Format:

MPEG 4

Modulation Standard:

DVB S2

For any further clarification on the above, please contact the Head of Operations & Projects and the Coordinator appointed for the above broadcast. All contact details are mentioned below;

Jayamal Attygala

Eranda Atulugama

Head of Operations & Projects

Foreign Media Coordinator

Media & Special Projects Bureau

Media & Special Projects Bureau

Sri Dalada Maligawa

Sri Dalada Maligawa

Kandy.

Kandy.

Tel –+94 071 6861055 | +94 081 2205839

Tel –+94 0757911180 | +94 081 2205839

Fax – +94 081 2205901

Fax – +94 081 2205901

E-mail – jayamal@sridaladamaligawa.lk

E-mail – eranda@sridaladamaligawa.lk