Daniel Frimpong, Daily Guide’s tournament coordinator
Thirteen media houses and three media training institutions have confirmed their participation for the maiden edition of the national media games, which is scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at the El-Wak Stadium.
Participating teams will compete in seven sporting disciplines in both men and women categories.
The event, which is in collaboration with the National Sports Authority (NSA), will see the overall media house take home a cash prize of GH¢10,000, a giant trophy and the bragging rights as ‘National Media Games Champion 2019’.
The event will offer the public the opportunity to see and cheer their favourite TV and radio personalities to victory.
It is expected to be the biggest gathering of state and private-owned media, as well as Ghana’s top media training institutions, in one place to network and compete.
The participating media houses are DGN (Daily Guide Network), Media General, New Times Corporation, Kencity Media, Ghana News Agency (GNA), Class Media Group, Global Media Alliance, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Praise TV, Home Base TV, Metro TV, Angel Broadcasting Network and TV Africa, with the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), the National Film & Television Institute (NAFTI) and the African University College of Communication (AUCC) as participating media training institutions.
They will compete in athletics, football, volley ball, apple-in-a-line and tug-of-war. Trophies and medals will be presented for each discipline.
This year’s theme ‘Rise Above the Noise’ is meant to deal with the canker of pirated material and to encourage the production of local contents.