China Tibet Broadcasting


China Tibet Broadcasting is a broadcast network headquartered in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its radio programmes were founded in 1959. Its English language audio broadcast is called Holy Tibet, broadcasts at 07:00 and 16:00 UTC every day.
The official website is "Voice of Tibet". It comprises the CTB with and Tibet Television.
English channel NameChinese channel nameFrequencyFower
Standard Chinese radio汉语广播FM93.3
AM1377
FM:10 kW
AM:200 kW
Standard Tibetan radio藏语广播FM101.6
AM594
FM:10 kW
AM:200 kW
Kham Tibetan language radio康巴话广播FM103
AM783
FM:10 kW
AM:200 kW
City life radio都市生活广播FM98FM:10 kW
Educational radio教育广播FM106.3FM:10 kW

Broadcast time

Standard Chinese: 4:00 –2:00
Standard Tibatan: 4:50 –2:00
Kham Tibetan language: 6:00–0:00
City life: 6:50–2:00
Educational: 7:30–13:30 and 18:00–22:00

History

Lhasa was served by a cable radio station from 1953 to 1958, the People's Broadcasting Station of Tibet, installed by the government. The existing Lhasa station borrowed a 3,5 kW shortwave transmitter on December 28, 1958 and converted to a wireless station on January 1, 1959. In 1973, the Mandarin and Tibetan programmes began to air on separate radio stations.
A preparing group for Tibetan television was created in October 1976, with the filming of a documentary, Jubilant Plateau, under the name "Tibet Television". The first test broadcast was conducted on May 1, 1978, in black and white. The same team started conducting color broadcasts on October 1, 1979.
Tibet Television under Voice of Tibet was launched on August 20, 1985, with the name being signed by Deng Xiaoping in Mandarin and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme in Tibetan. At the time, it broadcast a one-channel general service in both languages. By the late 1990s, it was broadcasting two channels, channel 8 and channel 12, both in Lhasa, with Lhasa Television, owned by the city of Lhasa, is on channel 10.