Coptic TV (CTV) is the official

Coptic Orthodox The Coptic Orthodox Church (), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt. The head of the church and the Apostolic see, See of Alexandria i ...

TV station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's ...

broadcasting in

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

via satellite to viewers in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

Tharwat Bassily Tharwat Bassily (''),'' (14 September 1940 – 5 December 2017) was an Egyptian businessman. Bassily graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University in 1967. He was founder and chairman of the board of Amoun Pharmaceutical Company S.A. ...

, a business man, was instrumental in establishing the television network, which was started in 2007. CTV subsequently started broadcasting in North America and elsewhere. Their headquarters are located in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

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* 2007 establishments in Egypt Coptic Orthodox Church Christian television networks Television stations in Egypt Television channels and stations established in 2007 Mass media in Cairo {{Egypt-tv-station-stub