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Sumathi Best Television Magazine Program Award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ48725916 ↗
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The Sumathi Best Television Magazine Program Award is presented annually in Sri Lanka by the Sumathi Group for the best Sri Lankan television magazine program.

The award was first given in 2002. Following is a list of the winners since then.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sumathi Best Television Magazine Program Award” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.