Sono Cairo


Sono Cairo is an Egyptian government owned multimedia company.

Company history

Launched as a privately-owned record company, it was taken over by the government in 1964, and became the country's largest producer of discs. it is under the control of the Ministry of Information.
Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co was established alshark alawsat factory for CD's on 30 April 1959 and turned into sout Alqahira Company for CD's on 6 January 1964. Then issued its decision, Mr. / Minister of Information No. 139 of 1977 established a sout alqahira company for Audio and Video as an Egyptian joint stock companies as one of the Radio and Television Union of the Ministry of Information.
In Egyptian Revolution of 1952, President Anwar Sadat made a speech from the company's broadcast.

Former Chairmen

No.NameFromTo
1Taha Mohammed EL-Hady Nasr6 January 196421 November 1979
2Safwat Ali Fahmy22 November 197931 December 1980
3Fathy EL-Bayumy Ebrahim1 January 198110 March 1982
4Mohammed Reda Hashem11 March 198222 January 1983
5Ahmed Mohammed EL-Fetory23 January 198316 July 1986
6Mohamed Saed Sabry1 September 198610 January 1990
7Abdel Aal Mohamed Abdel Aal14 January 199020 November 1994
8Abd EL-Rahman Ebrahem Hafez21 November 199420 May 1997
9Husien Fahmy Galal EL-Deen26 May 19979 October 1999
10Medhat Ahmed Abd EL-Menaem10 October 19994 June 2000
11Hosny Hamed EL-Rahamawy5 June 20005 September 2003
12Saed Helmy EL-Saed Yehya6 September 200326 November 2005
13Ebrahem Ahmed Ebrahem EL-Akabawy28 November 20055 January 2011

Video production

Sono Cairo's production includes production of religious E.g. And entertainment sono Cairo company Is interested in the field of video production to produce work of dramatic serials and other serials that have distinctive markings as gomhoreit Zefta which because of it, neighborhood Zefta is established in the Media Production City and there are also, ranging from the social work and comedy and historical and police and pay special attention to the production of work for children, as well as programs

Singing production

The company seeks to preserve the heritage of songs the good times, where it converted tapes to the electronic media in preparation to launch in the market as digital image CD & DVD & MP3.

Religious production

The company produces the Koran for senior readers of the Quran in Egypt and the Arab World also offers usually grab and religious prayers and thoughts of faith to the imam preachers, Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy to achieve for a Muslim his material and spiritual reconstruction of the life styles that are available with the approach of Islamic law To express the essence of Islam in moderation and leadership.

Stars who have worked with Sono Cairo

Spread of internationally marketing of the company's production and preservation of moral and ethical company rights so it was necessary for the company own agents at the international level, which aims at the following:
There are fourteen companies holding the rights to distribute and print production of sout alqahira at the international level, distributed as follows:

The [Persian Gulf] region and [Arab countries]

A continuation of the bidding company and despite the fire which broke out in units of editing, graphics The Company has created a new center for editing and graphics to keep pace with development in the field of video production and the center houses became include:
All units work through an integrated system have been linked to control room hardware by the Custodian of the electronic archive Visual production equipped with the latest information technologies and secure its contain units of self-extinguishing The visual production is traded through the central organs between the units and the editing room is equipped with To link with ground stations or satellites or to the Information Network with the possibility of implementing more than one process material film and one at the same time.

Studios

Studio was created in area 200 m on the ground floor In addition to the three studios Company; this is to increase production through the use of visual studio company
The studios has been developed and networks equipped with the latest lighting and modern digital cameras and generators for electricity.

Factories

The company has two factories to produce and print cassette voice in Alexandria production capacity up to more than 3 million Cassettes per one shift annually with the highest quality in global markets and equipped with the latest modern technology for the production and printing of the Koran bars for famous readers and religious talk, entertainment and musical. In flew the modernization of factories and keep abreast of developments for the printing of the company's production of optical media the development and production units cans production capacity is developed of 10 thousand in one shift per day.

Press

The advertising agency represents one of the major activity in the company which offer integrated advertising services in this regard where it propagate the clients' advertisement in the radio, TV, and Satellite. And it products the ads, and documentaries and implement all forms of advertising required by the ad campaigns. Production have been developed advertising programs to attract the sponsors and the religious programs offer messages of Khaled El Gendy, the Advertising Agency contributed to the revival of the comedy Heritage by transferring the comedy program to Graphic animation by using 3D graphic programs These programs were broadcast during the month of Ramadan 1428 AH. In addition to advertising development through outdoor advertising and the company became possesses in this area roads announcement in special places as Giza Cornish and Cairo Alex desert road and Alex Max coast.