| Tolo TV | |
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| Type | Satellite television network |
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| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Availability | Afghanistan |
| Owner | Moby Capital Partners |
| Key people | Saad Mohseni, director |
| Launch date | 2004 |
| Website | www.tolo.tv |
Tolo TV (Persian: "Sunrise") is the name of a television service broadcasted from Kabul, Afghanistan. The service broadcasts news and general entertainment programs. The owner is Saad Mohseni who became an Australian citizen, and has now returned to Kabul. Tolo was launched in October 2004, as the first commercial television station to operate in Afghanistan and is a leading private TV channel in Afghanistan. Tolo TV was started in 2004 with some hardware costs assistance from USAID. However, no other form of assistance has been provided to Tolo TV since and Tolo TV derives all its income from sale of advertising and production of programming content. Recently one of the station's female VJs, Shiama Reziaee was murdered, after receiving threats for her un-Islamic behavior. In November 2007, the channel received warnings from Muslim clerics and the Culture Ministry for broadcasting a concert of singer Shakira.
