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Job description / Role
Responsibilities:
- Build credible sports programme and content to ensure high ratings of the program
- Ensure that assigned program production is of high editorial & technical quality
- Participate in the daily editorial meeting (along with the reporters and crew)
- Decide on the final content of news bulletin
- Review all news updates - newspapers, internet, wires, bureaus
- Lead the production of the assigned stories/reports with the assigned field reporters, locations
- Coordinate everything related to guest appearing in the assigned bulletins in terms of initial contact, interview angle discussions, logistics
- Ensure that all Lead-ins and CGs (on screen script) are up-to-date
- Ensure that the news standards are strictly being adhered to i.e. balanced, language, attractive / floating videos
- Talk to the interviewees (guests, correspondents) to understand the line of conversation
- Be up to date with latest developments around & should enhance the basic general knowledge on Sports in KSA and the international leagues
- Perform other tasks or duties as and when required
Requirements
- Minimum 5-6 years of experience working on Sports production / formats
- Fluent in Arabic and English
- Experience in Media, TV production, Journalism and news editorial
- Technical Skills in:
- TV Planning & Scheduling Technologies & Software (BSS, Media Browse)
- TV Transmission Systems and Technologies
- iNews/Dalet
- Sport Production technologies in particular (Red Bee - Piero / VIZ - Libro), and learning how to create content to drive these technologies on screen.
- Experience in developing original and creative content
- Flexibility to travel frequently
- Good network of professional contacts within the sport community in general and KSA in particular
Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we receive we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. If you have not been contacted within 5-7 days, please assume that at this stage your application has been unsuccessful.
About the Company
MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.
Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).
Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.