Sono Cairo (Sout Alqahira, Sout Al Qahira, or Sawt al-Qahira: , "the sound of Cairo") is an Egyptian government owned multimedia company.
Launched as a privately owned record company, it was taken over by the government in 1964, and became Egypt's largest producer of phonograph records (LPs and 45s). it is under the control of the Ministry of Information.
Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co established a factory for phonograph records on 30 April 1959 and turned into sout Alqahira (Voice of Cairo) Company for records on 6 January 1964. Then issued its decision, Mr. / Minister of Information No. 139 of 1977 established the sout alqahira company for audio and video (Sono Cairo Audio & Video Co.) as an Egyptian joint stock company, as a unit of the Radio and Television Union of the Ministry of Information.
In the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat made a speech from the company's broadcast.
Sono Cairo's production includes production of religious E.g. (Mohamed rasol Allah) And entertainment (music and songs) sono Cairo company Is interested in the field of video production to produce work of dramatic serials (such as gomhoreit zefta, elsharae algeded, elwatad) and other serials.
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.
The company produces the Koran.
There are fourteen companies holding the rights to distribute and print production of sout alqahira at the international level, distributed as follows:
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:
Studio (4) 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 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 for the production and printing of the Koran bars for famous readers and religious talk, entertainment and musical.
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.