Sports Media Performance Control Committee: Inviting channels to engage in dialogue to improve the journalistic and media work environment
The Sports Media Performance Control Committee, affiliated with the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, headed by Counselor Abdul Salam Al-Najjar, Vice President of the State Council and member of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, held its periodic meeting, in the presence of Engineer Khaled Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Council.
It appreciated The Committee’s response and commitment to satellite channels and sports programs – To a large extent – in accordance with the controls issued by the Council, since their entry into force on the first of this January, according to the reports submitted by the Council’s Monitoring Department regarding the follow-up of sports programmes.
The Committee confirmed that program presenters and workers in the field of sports media have a major role to play. In educating and enlightening citizens as leaders of public opinion and the masses, especially since the sports sector is important and followed daily by citizens, the committee added that it will work in cooperation with program providers and sports channels to ensure that the year 2025 is the year of restoring sportsmanship, fair competition, and rejecting violence. And hatred, intolerance, and promoting belonging to national teams.
The committee indicated that it follows around the clock all programs, websites, and social media pages that provide sports content so that they follow the legal framework specified in the regulations of controls, standards, penalties, and measures issued by the Council in 2019 during The term of the late journalist Makram Mohamed Ahmed as Chairman of the Council.
The committee decided to invite a number of channels to participate in an open dialogue on ways to develop sports programs and adhere to media principles. In the context of its keenness to raise the professional and objective level of sports media, in light of the developments witnessed in the sports arena that require the combined efforts of all parties of the sports media system to achieve purposeful media that adheres to professional standards and established controls.
The committee includes in its membership the following: Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Sports Program Officer on Egyptian Television, and Dr. Muhammad Fadlallah, Professor of Physical Education at Helwan University, Engineer Sherif Amin, Sports Management Expert, Journalist Ibrahim Rabie, Journalist Ayman Badra, and Journalist Ayman Abu Ayed.
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