Television in Egypt

Television in Egypt is mainly received through free satellite, while analog terrestrial represents 41% of total viewers.

[2] The Egyptian Radio and Television Union, a government entity, owns all 17 terrestrial channels.

In the 1990s, there used to be an Egyptian company called CNE (Cable Network of Egypt) which provided a few foreign pay TV stations broadcast terrestrially over the air (CNN International, MTV Europe, Al Jazeera English with one show made for Arab League viewers, and other defunct channels), but needed a special receiver and a card.

[7] Companies like Egyptian Arts Group, El Adl Group and many others started doubling their annual production budgets in efforts to match the foreign TV series offerings in terms of quality of production.

In 2012, Core Republic started the first online Television in Egypt named El Gomhoreya TV.