Yoshlar ("Youth") is an Uzbek state television channel owned by National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan. As its name implies, the channel aims at the youth, and emerged in its current form in 1998.
History
By the 1960s, the Uzbek SSR was broadcasting three VHF stations. Data could only be retrieved for the first channel, which was broadcasting on channel 3. The 1960 FBIS Broadcasting Stations of the World has the earliest instance of a second TV channel in Tashkent, but without providing concrete data on its frequency.[1] During Uzbekistan's early years as an independent state, it was known as TV2. Before 1998, it also aired programs from the Toshkent studio.[2]
In late July 1998, TV1's news program Axborot reported on the launch of a youth channel (Yoshlar) on September 1, using TV2's frequencies. The new channel would broadcast for six hours a day, before expanding to a full-day 16-hour service later on.[3]