Day of Radio and Television Workers of Kyrgyzstan
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December 8, 1958 - The first television program on Kyrgyz TV was released.
Established by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of December 23, 1995 No. 566.
By the decree of the Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz SSR of 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 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 broadcasts, carried out the development of the material and technical base, distribution of the radio network and training of personnel.
The main content of the radio broadcasts included daily information about the events taking place, coverage of industrial and agricultural production, stories about the winners of socialist competition and drummers of labor. Famous singers, musicians, poets, storytellers and talented representatives of folk art were involved in radio work. The broadcasts were conducted in Kyrgyz, Russian and Dungan languages. Their daily volume was more than 9 hours, while more than 5 hours were allocated to republican broadcasts, about 4 hours - for broadcasting from Moscow programs of the All-Union Radio.
In December 1958, the Bishkek TV studio was commissioned with a high-altitude tower (194 m) and receiving and transmitting antennas attached to it.
On December 8, 1958, the first television program was broadcast on Kyrgyz TV.
In the socio-political and cultural life of the republic, a historical event took place - the republican television broadcasting began. At first, the TV 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 in Kyrgyz and Russian.
By 1979, the daily broadcasting of Kyrgyz television became available to almost all settlements of Kyrgyzstan. Reception and transmission of TV programs of Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek television are carried out using various facilities of radio relay and space communication lines.