Television broadcasts in the Uzbek SSR began on November 5, 1956; by 1960 it was already broadcasting 3.5 hours a day on weekdays and 5 hours on Sundays (with an additional two-hour slot aimed at children).
[1] The Tashkent television center, operating under the leadership of the Ministry of Communications of the Uzbek SSR, to which the built in the same year, a hardware-studio complex,[2] which had one television studio and one mock-up studio.
In 1969, the Tashkent television center was transferred to the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR for Television and Radio Broadcasting and renamed the Republican Television Center, its transmitting part was left within the Ministry of Communications of the Uzbek SSR as the Republican Radio and Television Transmitting Station.
[4] In 1977, the Republican Television Center was given a new hardware-studio complex, consisting of 3 hardware-studio blocks, 5 hardware-software blocks, a central hardware room, telecine projection and video recording hardware.
The channel was the most popular in Tashkent, per a survey conducted by the Tashkent Advertisers' Association in early 2009, in the period covering December 2008 and January 2009.