Khabar Agency is rightfully considered the leader of Kazakhstan's media space. It is a "Telefamily" of three channels: public-political TV channel "Khabar", 24-hour information TV channel "24KZ", youth TV channel "El arna". Every year more than 200 episodes of TV series of domestic production are produced by order of Khabar Agency. The variety of genres makes it possible to satisfy any target audience: melodramas, comedies, documentaries and programs, entertainment shows, historical and biographical series. In addition, the Agency has a large video library of archival footage from the 1990s and a well-developed correspondent network in the regions of the country, in the Middle and Far Abroad with offices in the USA, Russia, Belgium, South Korea, China, Germany, Uzbekistan, France, and Turkey.

28 years of creative work have brought the Khabar Agency multiple state, international and professional awards. The creative works of journalists were nominated for the prestigious television award "EMMY", "Golden Glagol" award in Russia. There are also victories in competitions of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio (Russia), the medal "Peter the Great" for a significant contribution to the development of information and cultural space of Eurasia. The highest international professional awards were given to the staff of the sports editorial office. One of the youth programs "City of the Future" at the international festival in Japan was among the ten best programs in the world.

At the international festival in Sevastopol, the historical film "Bauyrzhan Momyshuly" became the winner, in 2019 the TV series "The Sixth Post" received the TEFI - Commonwealth award. In February 2020, the documentaries "The Price of Peace. West" and "The Price of Peace. North", as well as the movie "Soaring under the Sun" became finalists of the IX TV National Award "Country" in the category "Big Country". In January 2022, the special project "Polygon" won in the category "Best Mini-Series" of the Moscow International Film Festival, Russia.

At the same time, Khabar Agency actively works with international organizations, is a full member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which makes it possible to participate on an annual basis in various competitions, trainings, creative projects, etc.

Since 2018, Khabar Agency has participated in the Junior Eurovision (Junior Eurovision) song contest, where the first participant from Kazakhstan was a young performer - Danelia Tuleshova, who took 6th place. In 2019, according to the results of general voting, Yerzhan Maxim was awarded the honorable 2nd place, in 2020 participated Karakat Bashanova, who also took 2nd place. In 2021 Kazakhstan was represented by Beknur Zhanibekuly and Alinur Khamzin, who took the overall 8th place, and in 2022 David Charlin took the 15th place with the song "Zher-Ana".

Meanwhile, membership in the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) provides an opportunity to participate on an annual basis in various competitions, trainings, creative projects, etc. Khabar Agency continued its participation in international creative competitions such as "ABU Prizes 2022" and "ABU Song Festival 2022". Thus, in 2022 Madi Syzdykov was invited to take part in "ABU Song Festival 2022" in New Delhi, where he was awarded with an honorary certificate and Khabar Agency was presented with a statuette of the Festival. As part of cooperation with ABU - annual participation in the Administrative Council Meeting. This event allows broadcasting industry leaders from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond to establish partnerships, exchange ideas and discuss future projects.

In 2023, for the first time with the support of the Ministry of Information and Public Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Award of TV series "Nauryz-2023" was held, in which the TV series "Kelinjan" was recognized as the best in several nominations, and also for the first time the continuation of the series, in the form of a feature film of the same name, was released in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Every year representatives of Khabar Agency participate in the following media markets: World Content Market, Mipcom, NAB Show. Continuous work on increasing the diversity of produced content provides the opportunity to sell licensed rights to serial products, archival video materials (news stories), feature and documentary films, concerts and music programs in Kazakhstan, neighboring countries and actively cooperate with the largest VOD-platforms, such as Kiporisks, IVI.ru, Okko and so on. It should be noted that the year 2023 is completed with high sales figures, so the growth of profit compared to the previous year amounted to -17.4%.

The Agency is constantly working on concluding memorandums of understanding, establishing contacts and building a dialogue with foreign broadcasting organizations, leading satellite and cable operators on retransmission of TV channel "24KZ". Retransmission is carried out in such countries as Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and in March 2024 an agreement was signed to expand broadcasting to Poland.

To date, there are 18 memorandums with foreign companies from the following countries: South Korea, Belarus, Macao, China, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, India, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Vietnam.

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