- Source: Lyazzat Tanysbay
Lyazzat Muratkyzy Tanysbay (Kazakh: Ләззат Мұратқызы Танысбай); (born 11 October 1973, Urzhar, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh journalist, media manager. Since April 2019, CEO of JSC «Republican Television and Radio Corporation «Kazakhstan».
Biography
Lyazzat Tanysbay was born on 11 October 1973 in the village of Urzhar, East Kazakhstan Region.
She graduated from the Almaty Institute of International Journalism. She began her career in 1993 as an editor, then she was a reporter, a TV presenter of the Republican TV and Radio Corporation "Kazakhstan".
Since the creation of one of the largest state–owned media in the country, the Khabar TV channel, in 1996, she has worked as an editor-presenter, executive producer of the news service.
In 2002, she held the positions of chief expert, head of the sector, chief inspector in the Press service of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2005 to 2008, she served as a Deputy Chairman of the Information and Archives Committee.
From 2008 to 2011, she worked as the First Deputy chairman of the board of JSC Republican Television and Radio Corporation "Kazakhstan".
In 2011, she was appointed Vice Minister of Information and Communications of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In February 2012, she headed the republican Astana TV channel, and since 5 July 2018, she has simultaneously headed the Nur-Media holding, which united several newspapers, radio, and online publications of the country.
In 2019, she became a head of the Republican Television and Radio Corporation "Kazakhstan", which includes 14 regional TV channels, 4 republican TV channels and 4 republican radio channels. Kazakhstan TV and Radio Corporation is the largest media company in the country, occupying a leading position in terms of broadcasting volume and population coverage.
In 2020, with the direct participation of Lyazzat Tanysbay, a new cultural and educational TV channel "Abai TV" was created, which raised the production of niche television projects of cultural, educational orientation in the domestic television industry to a new level.
In 2021, Qazaqstan TV and Radio Corporation launched the Altynqor.com (The golden collection) website. The website features names and voices, as well information about famous people. It broadcasts video and audio feeds from the Kazakh Television and Raio Fund starting from 1930.
