Day of Radio and Television Workers of Kyrgyzstan (08/12)

Professional holiday — Day of Radio and Television Workers of the Kyrgyz Republic — is established by Decree of the Government of the Republic № 566 of December 23, 1995. The date of celebration — December 8 — was chosen due to the fact that the first television program on Kyrgyz television aired on this day in 1958.

By a resolution of the Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz SSR dated December 1, 1931, the Republican Committee on Radio Broadcasting was created under the Communications Department of the Republic, and in May 1932 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Central Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz SSR.

The committee organized and coordinated radio broadcasting throughout the republic, controlled the ideological and political level, artistic and technical quality of programs, developed the material and technical base, distributed the radio network and trained personnel.

The main content of the radio broadcasts included daily information about current events, coverage of industrial and agricultural production, stories about the winners of socialist competitions and labor strikers. Famous singers, musicians, poets, storytellers and talented representatives of folk art were involved in working on the radio.

The programs were conducted in Kyrgyz, Russian and Dungan languages. Their daily volume was more than 9 hours, with over 5 hours allocated to republican programs, about 4 hours — for broadcasting All-Union Radio programs from Moscow.

In December 1958, the Bishkek Television Studio with a 194-meter tower and transmitting and receiving antennas attached to it was put into operation. And on December 8, 1958, the first television program on Kyrgyz TV was released.

A historical event took place in the socio-political and cultural life of the republic — began its own republican television broadcasting. At first, the television studio aired only 4 times a week, the duration of the daily program was one hour, the programs were broadcast in black and white and were broadcast in Kyrgyz and Russian. By 1979, daily broadcasting of Kyrgyz television became available to almost all settlements in Kyrgyzstan.

Today, the reception and transmission of television programs of Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek television is carried out using various radio relay and space communication lines, the country's main channel broadcasts around the clock, and the broadcast network includes information, social, political and cultural and entertainment programs.

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