THE SUBSTANSIVE RESEARCH ON TELEVISION BROADCAST AND INTERNET SITES OF TELEVISION CHANNELS IN KYRGYZSTAN
CEVIT YAVUZ *
Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Ordu University, The School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Turkey
YAVUZ ERCAN GÜL
Department of Educational Sciences, Kyrgyz Turk Manas University, Kyrgyzstan
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Kyrgyzstan, as well as other Soviet countries, had lived under the reign of Communist Russia and under the leadership of Communist Party for almost 80 years. Certainly, at this period Kyrgyztan’s mass media had complied with communist ideology and broadcasted basing only on this ideology. Kyrgyzstan was able to broadcast in accordance with its own cultural ideology only in 1991, when it achieved independence. Kyrgyz television had experienced two revolutions and went through difficult period. Today there are over twenty broadcasting channels in Kyrgyzstan. The rate of internet usage of these channels is low in comparison with developed countries. Especially, while Kyrgyz TV channels are regarded to be slow at this point, the channels which do not have internet sites at all also exist. In this article the substantive method of analysis was used. In this research channels of Kyrgyzstan’s television broadcasts that have internet sites were specified.
Keywords: Television broadcast, Internet usage, Kyrgyzstan, soviet countries, communist party