ETV started in late 1991 as a branch of Mirco-Wave Communication Systems Limited . MCS was a subsidiary of East-West Enterprises and was the primary reason for the E in ETV. The original board of MCS and Later ETV consisted of 4 persons - namely, Nahil Wijesuriya, Captain Lester Weinman, Uoosoof Mohideen and Priyanke de Silva. These four names are in the registrar of companies register for both ETV and Micro-Wave communication systems. Incidentally, Nahil's alma-mater is Trinity College, Kandy while the other three studied at St. Peter's College, Colombo 4. The logo of ETV depicted in this article was designed by Nahil Wijesuriya in his office at the Robert Senanayake Building in Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 2. Priyanke de Silva met Uoosoof Mohideen at the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies in August 1990. Priyanke and Uoosoof became friends and it was Uoosoof who invited Priyanke to join MCS as a Consultant Engineer for ETV, which was headed at that time by Mr. Roshan Rupesinghe. Soon after joining, Roshan Rupesinghe migrated to Australia at which point Nahil invited Priyanke to be the CEO/Managing Director of MCS. Programming for ETV was by down linking AsiaSat1 programs by a 50-foot diameter concrete dish built by Nahil at an East-West property in Peliyagoda, Sri Lanka. The AsiaSat1 signal was very weak and the 50-foot dish enabled ETV to provide 'broadcast quality' programs. Incidentally, MCS sold self-manufactured glass-fibre dishes of 16-foot diameter for residential use. A microwave, line-of-sight, link from Peliyagoda to Station Rd, Colombo 4 fed the content to the broadcasting studio/station on the 17th floor of the SET building. During this period East-West Enterprises split into two entities and Captain Lester Weinman and Mr. Nahil Wijesuriya went separate ways with Lester getting control of the Robert Senanayake Building and Nahil getting the IBM Building in Navam Mawatha, Colombo 2 and Nahil got total control of MCS and ETV. Nahil moved his office to the Thaakshana Mandiraya. Uoosoof Mohideen is/was the CNN representative for Sri Lanka and later joined Dynavision Broadcasting Corporation re-branded as ART TV as CEO upon exiting from MCS/ETV. Incidentally, Priyanke did some ground work for CNN during this time on measuring the CNN signal quality, etc. Priyanke also exited ETV and MCS, before Uoosoof's exit and the primary reason was that he wanted to go back to concentrating on his core business and other ventures, including as a technology consultant for another East-West owned enterprise. Nahil continued on with ETV and later sold ETV to EAP Holdings.
