Egypt’s Media Regulator Restores Midnight Cutoff for Sports Programmes

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation has decided to restore midnight as the cutoff time for broadcasting sports programmes.

The council, chaired by Khaled Abdel Aziz, approved a recommendation from its committee responsible for monitoring sports media performance.

The committee is headed by Abdel Salam El-Naggar, deputy president of the State Council and a member of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation.

The decision returns sports programmes to the midnight end time. The brief announcement did not specify when the restored cutoff would take effect.