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Third Tibetan-language satellite TV channel to be launched in SW China
CHENGDU, Oct 15, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
An 18-hour Tibetan-language
satellite TV channel is expected to be launched on Oct. 28 in
southwest China's Sichuan Province, a local official said
Thursday.
The channel is the third Tibetan-language satellite TV channel
in the country after two similar channels in Tibet Autonomous
Region and Qinghai Province, where most of 5 million Tibetan
minorities live, said He Daxin, head of the Sichuan Provincial
Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
The channel, broadcast 18 hours a day, will use the Sichuan
Provincial TV Station logo and broadcast with the Kamba language,
one of the three major Tibetan dialects. The Qinghai
Tibetan-language channel use the Amdo dialect and the channel in
Tibet use the Weizang dialect, he said.
The new channel will cover 2.4 million Kamba-speaking
population in Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan and Gansu through
satellite, cable TV and wireless transmitters, he said.
The channel broadcast programs of news, art, weather and dubbed
TV soap operas, he said.
Wanggyai Lhamo, 25, who just got her master degree from the
Minzu University of China based in Beijing, was one of the four
anchors of the channel.
"It has long been my dream to be a host using my own language,"
said she, host of two art programs.
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