SXSW Film: SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Network'
07:00 Mar 13 2013 from The Austin Chronicle
...event? The Network is a terrific, eye-opening, and heartwarming look at the first independent television station in Kabul, Tolo TV. Begun as a radio station, Tolo today employs more than 800 people. Shown the ropes by a group of Australians and Afghani expats,...
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2013-03-15/sxsw-film-reviews-the-network/
SXSW Film Live Interviews: Eva Orner of "The Network"
08:03 Mar 11 2013 from Austin Post
...uplifting and heartbreaking, "The Network" is the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network – TOLO TV – and the family behind it. TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan’s largest and most successful television network employing over 800 Afghans...
Afghanistan's first female local leader since the Taliban, Sakhra Sheikib, assumes her post: Report
06:39 Jan 22 2013 from Global Post
...has reportedly started her post as director of the northern Haja Dokuh district, Russian media today cited Afghanistan's local Tolo TV as reporting. There was no other immediate confirmation of the reports. Sheikib's assignment sees her the first woman to...
Arab TV: ‘Nagi Atallah’s Gang,’ ‘Tartil,’ ‘Night Owl’
03:05 Aug 20 2012 from The New York Times
...“Afghan Star” on Tolo TV, a network owned by the Afghan media company Moby Group, was a breakthrough hit. For this Ramadan, Tolo TV came up with a “Koran Idol”-style contest for traditionalists: on “Tartil,” contestants compete in front of a panel of Islamic...
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d0624120ab5df6f6926a7c4430763793
Afghan finance minister faces corruption investigation
04:55 Aug 02 2012 from TrustLaw
...over the past five years had transferred the money to accounts in Canada, according Afghanistan's largest commercial TV channel, Tolo TV. Tolo showed what it said were his private bank statements on one of its programmes. Zakhilwal, in an interview with the...
Afghan finance minister faces corruption investigation
08:29 Aug 02 2012 from Reuters Africa
...the past five years had transferred the money to accounts in Canada, according Afghanistan's largest commercial TV channel, Tolo TV. Tolo showed what it said were his private bank statements on one of its programmes. Zakhilwal, in an interview with the station...
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AFRICAWorldNews/~3/NlmVoql4blI/idAFBRE8710CM20120802
Afghan reality TV show's goal is national unity
11:40 Jul 23 2012 from The Independent
...September. The first episode of the show – which is the brainchild of Moby Group, the Afghan media group that owns the popular Tolo TV channel – aired early this month at 9pm, the prime-time TV slot in Afghanistan. "Football is very, very popular here," said...
Afghans plan soccer league, with assist from TV
07:52 Jul 18 2012 from NBC Sports
...company in Afghanistan, and the MOBY Group, which owns and operates media industries in developing nations. The group owns TOLO TV, a leading Afghanistan television station that will broadcast the reality show and the league's inaugural season of 16 matches,...
Afghans plan soccer league, with assist from TV
09:47 Jul 17 2012 from Washington Examiner
...company in Afghanistan, and the MOBY Group, which owns and operates media industries in developing nations. The group owns TOLO TV, a leading Afghanistan television station that will broadcast the reality show and the league's inaugural season of 16 matches,...