Urumqi Television Station (UTV) is a local television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 in Ürümqi

Ürümqi

Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....

, Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

, China

China

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. It was established in April, 1985 as a cable network

Cable network

A cable channel is a television channel available via cable television. Such channels are usually also available via satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and BSkyB...

 and started broadcasting on September 28 in the same year. Its logo is shaped in red after Hong Shan

Hong Shan

Hong Shan, Hongshan or the Red Mountain is an inner city mountain in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The mountain, sometimes referred to as a hill for its smaller size than a mountain in landform, is the symbolic scenic spot of Ürümqi...

, a city's symbolic mounatin.

Events and Trifles (大事小事) is a featured high-quality program of UTV, notably known for its close-in coverage by quickly approaching the events. However, there has been regulations that reportage on "sudden incidents" be censored by the network's authorities so as to get rid of rumors and falsehood.

After the 2009 Urumqi riots, UTV was a major media organ that provided aftermath-related reports within the city. During the later protests against syringe attacks

September 2009 Xinjiang unrest

In September 2009, Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China, experienced a period of unrest in the aftermath of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots. Late August and early September saw a series of syringe attacks on civilians. In response to the attacks,...

, the Ürümqi government attempted to calm down the mass, particularly protesters, via UTV by frequently broadcasting pre-programmed speeches delivered by the then CPC secretary Li Zhi

Li Zhi (official)

Li Zhi is a politician in the People's Republic of China, most notable for his role as the Communist party chief of Ürümqi during the city's rioting in July 2009...

 and other leaders.

Channels

• UTV-1: Chinese
  Chinese language
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   news channel, first launched in 1985
• UTV-2: Uyghur
  Uyghur language
  Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other...
  
  news channel
• UTV-3: movie channel, 24-hour movie in urban region
• UTV-4: life channel
• UTV-5: sports and recreation channel
• UTV-6: women and children channel