Seminar Answers to the questions What are the main informational Uzbek radio and tv channels? What Uzbek web sites do you know?

Since then, five new privately run television channels have been launched. The two most popular in 2017 were Zor TV and Mening Yurtim, according to the PIAU.

"I very much like to watch the Uzbekistani TV shows ... on the private TV channels," Mukhlisa Azizova, an 18-year-old resident of Tashkent, told Caravanserai. "They talk about our life in the Uzbek language."

Those programmes "are no worse than foreign ones", she added.

Facing increased competition, state-run television has attempted to improve offerings, raising awareness about national issues and gaining new viewers.