TV Derana won 7 awards at the recently concluded SLIM ( Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing ) - Nielsen Peoples Awards 2020 including the “ Television Channel of the Year’ ,“Peoples Youth Choice Television Channel of the Year” and the “News provider of the year ( Ada Derana). This was the first time a local channel had won that many number of awards at this prestigious entirely researched based award ceremony. TV Derana won these awards at the previous year as well including the biggest award ‘The Local Brand of the year”.