Tibet Television Station will launch a 24-hour Mandarin Chinese channel on Thursday, the 60th National Day of New China.
The station, which started operation in 1985, launched a Tibetan-language channel on Oct. 1, 1999, and started round-the-clock broadcasting on Oct. 1, 2007.
A Tibetan dubber works at the Tibet Television Station in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 29, 2009. (XinhuaChogo)
The local TV station has three channels, including two satellite channels, broadcasting 61.5 hours of programs a day and reaching up to 89.94 percent of the region's population.
