The first programme consisted of a bilingual Tajik/Russian news bulletin followed by a movie, Light in the Mountains and footage of Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States.
The station broadcast from a transmitter in the Tajik SSR capital, Stalinabad (the current Dushanbe) on channel 1 in the Russian standard.
The Dushanbe studio remained independent until the end of 1962 when it finally became a part of the Tajik SSR Radio and Television Committee.
[1] Following the building of a relay line between Dushanbe and Tashkent in 1965, the northern area of the Tajik SSR was finally able to receive television.
The new equipment also led to the abolition of the afternoon break, enabling the channel to have a continuous schedule averaging 18 to 20 hours a day.
As a measure to accelerate learning of foreign languages, the channel stopped airing dubbed Hollywood and Bollywood movies as an experiment in December 2014, limited to Thursdays and Sundays.
[8] Unlike films shown in Tajik or Russian languages, the movies in this test run were aired without commercial breaks.