Satellite TV, specialised channels and competition from the private sector may be changing TV as we know it. For the viewers, Media Day may not mean much, but the quality of programming, a new approach to entertainment, and the abundance of information flowing in from all over the world will make a big difference
Too hot to handle
As Egypt prepares to celebrate Media Day on 31 May, the government is struggling to reconcile the desire to control information with the imperatives of opening up to private broadcasting, and the need to enter the "age of space technology". Amira Howeidy writes
Up in the sky
Almost a year has passed since the NileSat channels started transmission. Audience reactions, as Rania Khallaf discovers, are still a mixed bag
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