Gakku TV is the first music channel in Kazakhstan that only airs content produced in Kazakhstan. Gakku TV aims to expand Kazakh music and culture and boost patriotism. The channel airs on cable and satellite television all over the country. Gakku TV produces short content, which consists of music programmes, news and entertainment in Kazakh and Russian. Up to 400 best performances of musicians from the last 30 years are aired daily. The channel provides charge-free rotation of the whole music content.
History
On November 1, 2013 Gakku TV channel is founded by Sanzhar Mustafin, Kazakh producer and head of Musan Group.
On September 13, 2014 Gakku TV held its first annual Gakku Dausy music festival in Almaty dedicated to the launch of Gakku TV music channel. A total of 200 singers, 57 bands and 75 music concerted items performed on festival. Batyrkhan Shukenov was invited as a special guest of the event. Festival lasted 7 hours.
On September 12, 2015 at Astana square in Almaty the second Gakku Dausy music festival launched. 55 performers of Kazakhstan participated the concert that lasted 6 hours. 40 thousand people visited the festival.
On September 17, 2016 there was held the third Gakku Dausy music festival dedicated to 1 000th anniversary of Almaty. 90000 people attended the festival. This event was recognized as the biggest show in the history of Gakku Dausy festivals. Concert video uploaded to YouTube reached over 1 000 000 views.
On June 23, 2017] at EXPO-2017 concert hall in Astana there was held Sound of Gakku concert. It lasted 2 hours 40 minutes.
On September 9, 2017 the fourth annual festival run inOskemen.
On September 16, 2017 the festival launched in Almaty. First headliner was Dimash Kudaibergen. The festival was live and lasted 6 hours. 150.000 people visited it.
On September 15, 2018 the fifth anniversary of Gakku Dausy took place on Almaty and it gathered a record-breaking audience about 200.000 people. The show was presented by kazakh producers Alua Konarova and Bayan Alaguzova and the representatives of Gakku TV channel Nurzhan Yerkinuly and Timur Balymbetov.
Programs
Gakku NEWS – hourly show business, sports and fashion news.
An-Gimme – live chat with celebrities.
Derec – music videos with boxed captions about filming process.
Gakku Top 10 – the only public music chart where newcomers and professionals compete for audience votes.
Zhauap Ber – question/answer format conversation based on audience questions.
Cool Tizbe – entertaining top-list of showbiz stars.
Love Story – Kazakh celebrity couples love stories.
Follow Wars – stars respond to social media comments.
Instanews – discussion of stars's posts from Instagram.
Tyńda – two representatives of show business compete at guessing right the singers and bands.
KinoKorme – main events of kazakhstani movie industry.
Follow Wars 2.0 – project re-start. Guests read comments on social networks while people from backstage force them to reply.
Uyat-Parade S – Music video review with funny gags.
Newton Tour 2018 – backstage of first tour of Newton music band all over Kazakhstan.
Music video blocks
#Jap-jana – fresh home-produced music broadcasts. Music video premieres aired with #tusaukeser hastag.
#Solo – three consecutive music videos by a single performer.
#Ozgeler – collection of alternative music video
#Yep-yeski – golden collection of old Kazakh music video.
#Chak-chak – best new video collection
#Altynym-altynym – collection of music videos from last decade.
#Hip-hop – video collection from best rappers of Kazakhstan.
Gakku FM
Gakku FM – Kazakh music radio station from Gakku TV producers. Launched on December 1, 2016. Gakku FM broadcasts only Kazakh content: contemporary music and hot show business, culture and entertainment news.
