The history of the Public Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic begins in 1931. The official date of the opening of the Kyrgyz radio is on January 20, 1931. On that day the radio station with a length of 25 kilometers was completely commissioned, with a subscriber network of 300 radio points. In 1930, in Frunze began the construction of a standard radio node, and in 1931 it was fully put into operation.
In the Soviet years, Kyrgyz radio certainly played an important role in the life of the Kyrgyz people. Like other forms of media, it was an instrument of propaganda and was ideologically motivated, but nevertheless it was a radio that carried the necessary information, brought amazing cultural diversity of the country to the listeners. Preservation of the heritage became an important and main task of the Kyrgyz radio after the collapse of the great Soviet country. For 20 years of independence, the Kyrgyz radio developed, improved and fulfilled its main mission – to convey to the listeners the uniqueness of Kyrgyzstan and its people.
In 1926, the Kyrgyz Autonomous region was transformed into the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In this regard, in order to spread the news about such a joyous event throughout the entire territory of the country, they raised an initiative of universal radio service. In 1927, this bright idea was realized, and during the Kurultai of the Central Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz ASSR, the people heard the report of Abdykadyr Orozbekov, chairman of the committee, on the radio nodes.
On December 19, 1931, at the People’s Commissariat of Soviets of the Kyrgyz ASSR, the Committee on Broadcasting was formed. According to the regulations of the Central Executive Committee, order No. 1 of December 20, 1931, Bektursunov Suyuntbek was appointed as a Chairman of the Republican Committee for Broadcasting, who worked at his post until July 1932. Further, his place is occupied by Kypchakbaev, Sarmanov. Despite the short period of their work, and all the difficulties they had to go through, they were the first initiators to conduct cognitive and instructive hearings through radio.