Hosting numerous shows on the Azerbaijani television, including the news program, as well as many interviews and on-screen concerts, he was distinguished by recognizable timbre of voice, peculiar manner of broadcasting, and had played an active role in the formation of the Azerbaijani television. Thus, he was called the "Azerbaijani Leviathan" by some. In the early 1990s, Huseynov, as an announcer, had provided information about the Black January and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Though Huseynov left the television in the early 1990s, and continued his career as a singer. He returned to television in 2005, taking the post of artistic director of the TV presenter of the AzTV.