Harry you have seen half the picture. The other half is that the expenditure of one becomes the income of another.

This is not a surprise to me .. if you look at the way SLT & Mobitel investments for the last one and half years you can see the amount of A&P ( advetising & Promotion ) budget wasted over non return generating media. Simply to say they spend so much money on CSN ( the channel owns by the 2nd son of president ) which will hardly deliver any ROI or incremental turnover . Simply the channel and it's activities doesn't have a fan base or a viewer base and it's money gone in drain . We have already heard the story of Srilankan airways . I'm sure we will yet to hear the same story from Sri Lanka insuarance , Lotteries board , BOC etc... These government organizations spend so much money on CSN & other non related government activities so we see the results ... this is so pathetic ...