Doha: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has been committed to offering high level of services for the media representatives from all over the world to ensure that their experience in Qatar during the media coverage for the World Cup tournament is smooth, seamless and pleasant experience through dedicating a Host Country Media Centre (HCMC), which offers a unique experience for the first time in the tournament history.
Located in Msheireb downtown Doha, HCMC offers a myriad of services to provide the best conducive working environments for thousands of media representatives from different world countries, including the media and broadcasting representatives accredited to FIFA.
SC has previously announced that the Centre's accommodation capacity is 1500 persons maximum, while the number of persons who received the accreditation of media in the host country through Qatar Media Portal is roughly 6900 media representatives, because the accreditation of media representatives in the host country is a prerequisite for media and anchors unaccredited by FIFA, which offers the accessibility to HCMC and the broadcasting facilities for those who hired studios in those facilities.
In addition, the accreditation of media in the host country offers the accessibility to FIFA Fan Festival and fan zones, specially that the media accreditation in the host country is automatically connected with the clearance for photographing at the state level, which enables the media and anchors who hold the accreditation to capture photographs in various sites across the country, including Souq Waqif, Katara and Corniche and other areas as detailed on Qatar Media Portal, however, it is not allowed for media in the host country to enter the stadiums or accessing the training sites (Main Media Centre) at QNCC provided by FIFA to the accredited media and anchors.
In her previous statement, Communications Executive Director at SC Fatma Al Nuaimi said that the construction of HCMC comes within the constant efforts of SC to provide the media representatives, including correspondents, representatives of broadcasting entities and photographers with an effective and smooth experience in an integrated site that offer them services and sophisticated facilities to discharge their functions during the media coverage for the tournament and the associated events which are held across Qatar during the global event, adding that SC is looking forward to boosting close co-operation with the media from over the world to cover the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in a unique version of the football festival that attracts the interest of the football community and fans everywhere.
HCMC provides everything required by media professionals to perform their functions throughout the tournament period, as it includes a plethora of facilities, including press conference halls, studios, and work offices, in addition to the technical support and services that fulfill the requirements of the photographers, along with a hall for media professionals that accommodates 100 persons. The Centre operates around the clock during the global tournament which concludes with the final game at Lusail Stadium on December 18.
The media professionals are following-up on the live streaming of the world cup games via giant screens at HCMC, where press conferences are held during the tournament and offers the opportunity for the media professionals to conduct interviews with the spokespersons of SC or representatives of the concerned government entities in the country.
The Press conference halls accommodate 140 correspondents, along with 25 sites for cameras, where the press conferences are broadcasted in live stream for the representatives of the media who are present in their offices with the accommodation capacity for 500 correspondents. The Centre includes four broadcasting studios for the service of the broadcast entities via advance booking, along with 300 offices for media representatives on a first-come-first-served basis, where all offices were equipped with internet access and some computers for media professionals.
In addition, the staff from IT department offer technical support service, including the required assistance to handle any potential technical matters and instantly provide the solutions accordingly. Likewise, HCMC offers services for the photographers participating in the media coverage for the tournament in co-operation with Nikon and Canon companies, along with the free-of-charge maintenance service and selling out the inessential spare parts of cameras and photographers' equipment.
Source: QNA
