Egypt then signed a contract with Radio Corporation of America to provide the country with a television network and the capacity to manufacture sets.
The big building that takes its name after the French Egyptologist, Gaston Maspero, is deemed a distinguished site with its circular shape that receives over 30 thousand individuals daily.
In the early 1980s, the Egyptian TV witnessed development in all domains and the orientation was to activate the media sovereignty principle through engineering and geographic expansion for a state-wide-coverage.
In 2002, another channel "el-Mehwer TV"[2] was established which is now owned by Dr. Hassan Rateb and the Egyptian radio and television union.
[3] Another example for government intervention in private channels was banning the Egyptian famous journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal from appearing in Dream TV.
Dream aired a lecture Heikal gave at the American University in Cairo in which he commented on speculation surrounding the bequeathing of the presidency in Egypt.