Within the framework of the event, the opening ceremony of the educational and creative laboratory "Qazaqstan" No. 208 was held at the Faculty of Journalism that is equipped with modern technology. In the laboratory journalists, producers and reporters of the "Qazaqstan" channel will conduct master classes of the "Basics of TV Journalism" workshop. The students of the contest were awarded with scholarships  for preparing their TV projects сommemorated to the 60th anniversary of the "Qazaqstan" TV channel .

Opening the conference, the Rector of Al-Farabi KazNU Galym Mutanov noted that close cooperation was established between RTRK "Qazaqstan" and Al-FarabiKazNU. The national television channel Qazaqstan is the basis of the Kazakh television. And we are proud that a large army of journalists of the TV channel are graduates of our university. It is gratifying to emphasize that the opening of the "Qazaqstan" laboratory is an important step in realizing the tasks set by the President of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev to create Digital Kazakhstan, "- emphasized Rector.

"Today, the RTRK" Qazaqstan "JSC unites the national television channel" Qazaqstan ", the TV channels" Kazsport "and" Balapan ", the" Kazakh radio ", the radio" Shalкar ", the radio" Astana ", the radio" Classic "and the regional television and radio companies . The ether broadcast network of the Qazaqstan television channel includes news, serials, feature films, documentaries and programs. The coverage of the TV audience is 99% of the country's population. In addition, the signals of the Corporation can be received by residents of the border areas of neighboring countries. The honour of the TV channel is the "Golden Fund", which stores more than 10 thousand television programs, video films and more than 100 thousand unique records of the Kazakh radio, many of which are invaluable, " stressed Lyazzat Zhunusova, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of RTRK" Qazaqstan ".

In conclusion, Galym Mutanov thanked the journalists for the fruitful work and awarded a group of famous journalists graduaters from the university of different years with jubilee medals "80 years of Аl-FarabiKazNU ".