by moby group picture format 1080p hdtv & 576i sdtv 16 9 audience share 41 % as of july 2010 update country afghanistan sister channel s tolonews lemar tv website www.tolo.tv availability satellite yahsat 1a 52.5 e 11785 h 27500 5 6 st 2 88 e 10966 v 7300 3 4 tolo tv persian is a commercial television station operating in afghanistan . launched in october 2004 by moby group it became one of the first commercial stations in the country and laid the foundation for an accessible media outlet by offering a large library of shows . it is currently afghanistan s most popular television channel . tolo tv was first launched in kabul but as of november 2007 has broadcasts in 14 cities in afghanistan on free to air and throughout the region by satellite . its sister channels are tolonews and lemar tv . tolo tv was the subject of documentary film in 2012 called the network by eva orner . the film saw limited international release in 2013 1 contents 1 programs 2 2011 rebrand 3 criticism of availability 4 attacks 5 see also 6 references 7 external links programs edit the old logo of tolo tv november 2004 march 2011 afghanistan s landmark drama series raaz hai een khana the secrets of this house took the special award at the seoul drama awards in october 2008 . screened on tolo and produced by kaboora productions raaz hai een khana is the first drama series ever entirely written acted filmed produced and broadcast by afghans for afghans in afghanistan . it was selected for a special prize amongst 152 entries from 33 countries around the world . tolo tv broadcasts afghan star a singing competition and one of afghanistan s most popular television series . the show was the subject of the 2009 documentary film afghan star which won two awards at the 2009 sundance film festival . in 2010 tolo tv began broadcasting eagle four a police drama often compared to the american series 24 and partially funded by the u.s. government . 2 3 4 5 other popular programs include chai ba azizyar maheman e yar feker wa talash zang khatar dahlezha 6.30 report emroz emshab hai maidan tai maidan and a comedy drama called hechland . tolo tv are currently playing turkish serials dubbed in dari persian such as qesa haye zendagi zahra zahra qiyam resurrection and arbab kocheh little lord . the channel also airs quran majeed a quran recitation program on weekdays . 6 2011 rebrand edit in march 2011 tolo tv was rebranded with a new look a new logo and minor design changes too . the new logo matches the design style of tolonews logo . criticism of availability edit afghans in europe have complained that they can not receive tolo tv on their satellite . in europe tolo tv is available on eutelsat sesat 2 express am22 53 e but in western and northern europe the signal strength is either very weak or no signal at all . only residents in eastern europe can receive sesat 2 express am22 . because most afghans in europe are in the north and the west tolo tv is trying to make itself available on hotbird a satellite which most afghans in europe receive and watch other afghan channels . afghans in north america also can not receive tolo on galaxy 25 . the daily news programme in both dari and pashto is made available on the tolotv youtube channel . 7 attacks edit on 21st january 2016 a taliban suicide car bomber detonated explosives near a bus carrying staffers from tolo tv in darulaman road in kabul killing at least 7 staff members including 3 female employees and wounding 26 others . the attack drew widespread global condemnation with various world countries activists and media organizations denouncing it as an attack on afghanistan s freedom of press . 8 see also edit list of television channels in afghanistan razaq mamoon references edit the network . dogwoof films . retrieved 29 june 2013 . nordland rod ; sharifullah sahak contributed reporting 21 november 2010 . on tv an afghan unit challenges tradition and tackles the taliban . the new york times . p. 12 . retrieved 16 june 2011 . afghan tv police drama delivers message with zest . los angeles times . 2010 12 08 . archived from the original on january 20 2011 . retrieved 16 june 2011 . afghan tv show aims to burnish police reputation . npr . retrieved 16 june 2011 . u.s. courts afghans through television . the wall street journal . kabul wsj.com . november 17 2010 . retrieved 16 june 2011 . series . tolo tv . http www.youtube.com user tolotv amiry sharif . seven tolo tv employees killed in wednesday attack . tolo news . www.hamwatan1.com tolo tv live external links edit official site tolo tv live online stream retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tolo tv & oldid 738396152 categories television channels and stations established in 2004television stations in afghanistanpersian language television stationshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from july 2010all articles containing potentially dated statementsarticles containing persian language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa ol fran ais suomi edit links this page was last modified on 8 september 2016 at 18 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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