In the 20th century, Tashkent became an important center of television broadcasting in the region. Regular broadcasts began to develop in the 1950s, and later the city became one of the key media centers in Central Asia.

One of the central actors in the history of early television experiments in Tashkent was the engineer and inventor Boris Pavlovich Grabovsky. He led a group that, in 1928, for the first time transmitted a moving image of a tram using an experimental device called a “telephoto”.

In 1981, the Tashkent Television Tower was built, one of the tallest structures in Central Asia, designed for the seismic conditions of the region. Today, it remains a prominent part of the city’s skyline.

It is worth clarifying that television does not have a specific homeland. At the same time as Tashkent, experiments were also conducted in Europe and the USA.

The development of technology has been the result of the work of many scientists:

In 1926, John Loughee Baird showed one of the first public television systems.;

Philo Farnsworth later created the electronic basis of television, close to the modern format.

However, the Tashkent experiments have become an integral part of this large-scale scientific development, which marked the beginning of an entire era of information technology development.