Channel of the Year Award explained

The Raigam Tele'es Channel of the Year Award is presented annually in Sri Lanka by the Kingdom of Raigam associated with many commercial brands for the best Sri Lankan television channel of the year in television screen, who received most awards at the ceremony.^[1]

The award was first given in 2009. Following is a list of the winners of this award since then.

Award list in each year

Year	Channel of the Year	No. of Awards
2008		19 awards
2009		19 awards^[2]
2010		18 awards ^[3]
2011		18 awards^[4]
2012		18 awards^[5]
2013		13 awards^[6]
2014		18 awards^[7]
2015		16 awards^[8]
2016		18 awards^[9]
2017		16 awards^[10]
2018		19 awards^[11]
2019		18 awards^[12]
2020		14 awards ^[13]
2021		17 awards each

Notes and References

1. Web site: It’s Tele’es time again! . Srilankanewslive.com . 11 March 2017.
2. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2009 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20100523070436/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2010/05/13/_art.asp?fn=sa10051314&pn=16. 23 May 2010. dead.
3. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2010 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170413053404/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2011/05/26/_art.asp?fn=sa11052613&pn=20. 13 April 2017. dead.
4. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2011 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180912120452/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2012/05/17/?fn=sa1205178. 12 September 2018. dead.
5. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2012 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016165103/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2013/05/23/?fn=sa1305232. 16 October 2013. dead.
6. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2013 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180509063531/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2014/06/12/?fn=sa1406122. 9 May 2018. dead.
7. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2014 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180510014949/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2015/06/18/?fn=sa1506186. 10 May 2018. dead.
8. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2015 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180318010159/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2016/06/09/?fn=sa16060915. 18 March 2018. dead.
9. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2016 award winners. Sarasaviya. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170704012744/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2017/06/29/?fn=sa1706298. 4 July 2017. dead.
10. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2017 award winners . Sarasaviya . 29 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180330012934/http://www.sarasaviya.lk/2018/03/29/?fn=sa1803299 . 30 March 2018 . dead .
11. Web site: Raigam Tele'es 2019 award winners. Sarasaviya.
12. Web site: Shalani becomes the brightest star and wins both Raigam Awards - Here are the complete winners . True News . 25 September 2020.
13. Web site: 2022-03-31 . Two years of delicious Raigam Teles . 2022-04-28 . සරසවිය.