Most viewers rely on traditional antennas to receive signals.
An earlier BRIF poll of four Kazakhstani cities found that only 8 percent of viewers have cable TV, and only 0.8 percent have a satellite dish 2 . Television is the Kazakhstan citizenry's primary source for both information and entertainment. Thus the most popular information source is foreign. Another BRIF poll found that almost 30 percent of Almaty households have a VCR 4 . For local news, television is also the most common source, along with newspapers and journals.