By EMAD MEKAY on NYTimes.com, July 13: CAIRO — In Tahrir Square, Egypt’s revolution is playing out before the world’s cameras; but off-screen another revolution is happening that may be just as important.
These are busy times for Egyptian Media Production City, Egypt’s largest media services company, which runs a sprawling studio complex on the outskirts of Cairo.
Stimulated by deregulation and an insatiable demand for news and information amid the uncertainties that have followed the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, investors are racing to set up new television channels.
Since Mr. Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11, a total of 16 new Egyptian channels have obtained licenses to broadcast to the country’s 85 million people and via satellite to the larger market of 310 million in the Arab world.