Tim Horshington

{{Short description|Sri Lankan radio broadcaster}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Tim Horshington | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Colombo, Sri Lanka | death_date = 8 May 2002 | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = Broadcasting | education = | employer = Radio Ceylon / Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation | occupation = Broadcaster | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

''' Timothy Navaratnam Horshington''' was a pioneering broadcaster of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/making-waves-99687.html?fbrefresh=1547998715|title=Making waves|website=www.dailymirror.lk|language=English|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> Horshington was one of the earliest Tamil announcers to be appointed to the panel of announcers in the 1950s by Livy Wijemanne and Clifford Dodd. He was very popular with listeners on the island - Ceylonese enjoyed listening to his mellow voice over Radio Ceylon - the radio station ruled the airwaves in the 1950s and 1960s in South Asia.<ref name="Radio Ceylon">{{cite web|title=When Ceylon ruled the airwaves|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/01/01/stories/2006010100150400.htm|accessdate=2008-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219081446/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/01/01/stories/2006010100150400.htm|archive-date=2008-12-19|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Tim Horshington was sent to Australia in 1952-1953 on training placement with the Macquarie Broadcasting Service in Sydney.

He presented radio programs such as 'Ponds Hit Parade,' and 'Holiday Choice' over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon.

He died on 8 May 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2002/05/14/obits.html | title=Obituaries | newspaper=Daily News | date=14 May 2002 | location=Sri Lanka | accessdate=30 August 2020 }}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Wavell, Stuart. - ''The Art of Radio'' - Training Manual written by the Director Training of the CBC. - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation, 1969.

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20040817165342/http://www.slbc.lk/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20040603163649/http://www.vernoncorea.info/ Vernon Corea The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060321233514/http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/21/fea10.htm SLBC-creating new waves of history] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080925204950/http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/27/fea02.htm Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka]

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