Items related to state media

Information Minister increases wages of state tv staff
MENA 15 Apr 2013
Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud decided to grant 10 percent of the revenues of advertising, which are...
Maspero workers’ delayed salaries highlight institution’s dire finances
Mai Shams El-Din 08 Apr 2013
The iconic Maspero television building has long been a protest hub for activists voicing their mounting frustration...
Egyptian newspapers
Ex-officials return LE70 mln in illegal newspaper gifts
Al-Masry Al-Youm 02 Apr 2013
Sources at state daily Al-Gomhurriya revealed Tuesday that 32 former officials had returned a collective LE70 million...
Radio and Television Building in Cairo
Maspero nearly LE20 bn in debt, says State TV official
Al-Masry Al-Youm 18 Feb 2013
The Radio and Television Union is nearly LE20 billion in debt, according to the head of the news department, Ibrahim al...
Egyptian anti-government protestors demonstrate raising their shoes in front of the Egyptian national TV building, which is currently secured by the Egyptian Army, in central Cairo, February 11, 2011. Egyptian demonstrators reacted with fury after the military threw its weight behind President Mubarak's attempt to cling on to power despite massive nationwide protests.
Information minister: Media must defend government
MENA 14 Feb 2013
  The media plays an important role in raising awareness and must “support the government against rioters...
Tens of protesters continue their sit-in before Radio and Television building "Maspero", Cairo, January 30,2012, demanding SCAF to hand over the power to civilians.
State TV head resigns in objection to 'the way the country is run'
Egypt Independent 06 Dec 2012
State television head Essam al-Amir submitted his resignation to Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud on Thursday...
Scores demonstrate outside Maspero, cause traffic jam
MENA
Al-Masry Al-Youm
04 Dec 2012
Scores of demonstrators flocked Tuesday evening to the state television and radio building, known as Maspero, on the...
State TV presenter Hala Fahmy held a burial shroud on her program, after which transmission for the broadcast was cut.
Update: State TV presenter says cutting of broadcast part of "Brotherhoodization"
Omar Halawa
Al-Masry Al-Youm
03 Dec 2012
After holding a burial shroud on-air on her Sunday evening show to protest the Muslim Brotherhood, state media...
Radio and Television Building in Cairo
State-run satellite channel broadcasts disrupted Sunday evening
Egypt Independent 25 Nov 2012
All television broadcasts on Nilesat, Egypt’s state-owned satellite broadcasting company, went black on Sunday...
Employees and journalists of Gomhoureyya newspapers staging a protest, Cairo, 13 February, 2011. Protesters called on dismissal of Chairman of Board Ali Hashem and Chief Editor Mohamed Ali Ibrahim as well as redistribution of salaries.
Court reinstates editor dismissed for false news on SCAF
MENA 06 Nov 2012
The State Council Administrative Court canceled the Shura Council’s decision to dismiss the editor of a state-...