The Royal College Radio Club was founded in 1925 by the college prefects as the Radio Listeners Club.

Radio Broadcasting was new then to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon); Radio Ceylon (now the Sri Lanka Broadcasting

Corporation) having been founded in the same year. Radio Ceylon itself is the worlds second oldest Radio

Broadcasting service, making the RCRC one of the worlds oldest Clubs of its nature. The founders of our club

were pioneers, and it is with that same royalist spirit, that the RCRC launched Sri Lanka’s first 24 hour Radio

Station organized and carried out by the students of an educational institution. It was also the first service of its

nature in the subcontinent.

 

FMRoyal is the epitome of the achievements of the Royal College Radio Club. Since its inception, FMRoyal has

enjoyed 15 successive broadcasts, with some of them rising to special prominence, such as in 1995 when

FMRoyal became the Official Radio Station for the South Asian Games, and in 2000 when FMRoyal provided

LIVE coverage of the Bradby Shield Encounter. In addition to this, FMRoyal has pioneered several successful

technologies in Sri Lanka as part of its broadcasts, such as the FMRoyal Webcast, which launched in 2005,

which was Sri Lanka's first 24 hour Internet mirror of a FM Broadcast, and the FMRoyal Podcast, which in 2006

became the first service of its nature in Sri Lanka. In the last year, the Royal College Radio Club brought forth

FMRoyal in an improved manner than ever before, with the help of modern day digital technology, and with the

field of computer networking, RCRC was able to venture into a new generation of Radio Broadcasting.

Our concept for FMRoyal 2008 included the integration of technologies on computer based radio station

automation along with the expansion of our coverage to the city of Kandy and Galle.