Capital Broadcast Center (CBC) is an Egyptian satellite television network launched in July 2011. According to stats from the Arab Media Outlook channel, CBC is ranked second in the country in viewership and popularity. Mohamed Al-Amin, the business partner of former Member of Parliament Mansour Amer, owns the television. The network’s channels include CBC, CBC Drama, CBC+2, CBC Sofra, and CBC eXtra.
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CBC eXtra News specializes in direct news and coverage of events and current affairs through an outstanding team of journalists, reporters, and broadcasters. eXtra, the news sibling of the Group, also aims to provide news service in all areas, including Current Affairs, policy, Economy, Culture, Arts, Sports, Tech, Business, Entertainment, and others. The subsidiary has the slogan of “Egypt around the clock,” transferring news to all the governorates of Egypt. The large scale of coverage is reaching not only in far stretched villages, hamlets, and towns.
The channel has been quite successful in providing Egyptians and Arabs with objective and authentic new stories and developments from the Middle East, Africa, and across the world. However, the authorities and top-level officials of the eXtra are accused of having close links with former President Hosni Mubarak and the military regime. Despite controversies and a hard time in Egypt, the wealthy investors of the Group have faith in the media empire and are determined to build and expand it.