AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PRINT MEDIA IN THE PROMOTION OF SPORTS DEVELOPMNT IN NIGERIA

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PRINT MEDIA IN THE PROMOTION OF SPORTS DEVELOPMNT IN NIGERIA

chapter One

Foreword

1.1 Research background

Sport was originally a recreational activity, but with the introduction of economic and material gain and the honor that came with it, the number of participants, the number of events, and the struggle for victory brought a high level of politics to sport. Fraud, cheating, and fraud cast a shadow over the system as a result of the expected rewards. However, many people and groups are interested in learning about sporting events. The date, date, time and place of such events are important. They also question past and future plans. Therefore, information and collective consciousness are paramount to solving this information and knowledge quest. Certain bodies or chapters in the world of journalism are tasked with publicly reporting sporting events. The impact these reports have on shaping the behavior of the public and the administration of sports in general requires sports reporting expertise and skill.

With these facts in mind, this study examines the impact of print media on the development of sports in Nigeria. Sport was a recreational phenomenon until the first World Sports Festival was held in the early 1930s. The selection process between different nations has resulted in more intense and competitive sports between countries and continents.Competitive sports thus serve as an unifying force and source of socio-political relations. . Awards of economic gain, international honor, and merit were enacted as incentives and motivations for individuals and nations competing for the throne. Sports organizations such as the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the National Food Authority (NFA) have been formed and job opportunities have been created.

This has resulted in various sporting activities, medals, interest groups and interests. These groups and interest groups push and seek information on the processes and dynamics of sporting activity on a daily basis, ostensibly to sustain or influence certain phenomena.

The print media bridges this responsibility gap by reporting these activities and providing necessary information to all involved. Beazell W.P. writes, “Sports news comes closer to the common denominator of news than any other news I know. It’s probably bigger than any other part.”

This obligation has profound implications for the entire socio-cultural, political and economic fabric of the state. Sport commentary arose out of nationalist activity/pressure, fanaticism and hooligans in sport. Its wide reach makes it the safest way to promote your products, services, and programs, but it’s also the most expensive. It has brought in millions of dollars to organizers and turned many analysts and commentators into international figures/heroes. Given the power of sports reporting, quality, objective reporting requires the necessary press material and concrete facts. I am interested in the means and methods of data collection. Generally, they obtain data through personal observations, press, publications and mass media.

With the introduction of financial and material gain, and the associated honors in sport, the number of participants, the number of events, and the fight to win, politics became entrenched at a high level. Expected Reward Consequences.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The media in perform their social duty and improvement function in recreation improvement in Nigeria had been criticised for putting an excessive amount of emphasis on European wearing advertising and subculture to the detriment of indigenous video games and competencies, calling for a severe re-assessment of the jobs and duties of recreation journalist and media via self-regulation. However, searching at the character of media possession and the excessive value of media production, enterprise watchers agree that practitioners have taken to income maximization which unearths a fertile floor in overseas recreation portrayal on Nigerian media and the massive ad sales it draws for the media than withinside the nearby wearing activities and sports, that’s under-funded, unwell geared up and lacks right advertising, administration, management, branding and packaging.

Meanwhile, there additionally exists the hassle of Nigerian excessive flavor for overseas enter withinside the media, especially sports activities, Nigerians pick staying at their workplaces with agency of buddies and households discussing the final results of overseas wearing sports or maybe watching, instead of to pay or track in to peer their nearby athletes or wearing sports. Trends amongst ratings of Nigerian media organization similarly imply the little problem and insurance allotted to wearing troubles and activities or even wherein such turned into the case, extra share of the testimonies are approximately worldwide wearing stars and competencies on the rate of our very own home-bred professional.

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To understand the contribution of print media to recreation improvement

2. To look at the demanding situations going through print media in reporting recreation sports

3. To look at the thing of recreation which print media supply precedence?

4. To understand why recreation sports are typically positioned on the lower back cowl of each the newspaper and magazine.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. Do print media make contributions to recreation improvement in Nigeria?

2. What are the demanding situations going through recreation journalists and recreation table in reporting recreation sports?

3. Why do Nigeria Sport journalists pay greater interest to overseas recreation sports than nearby recreation?

4. Why are sports activities sports typically positioned on the lower back cowl of each the newspaper and magazine?

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

There isn’t anyt any doubt approximately the reality that paintings like this could be beneficiary to a few set of humans and entity. Meanwhile, this paintings at the function of print media in recreation improvement will advantage the subsequent humans, journalists, media proprietors, recreation fans, authorities and destiny researchers.

Journalists:
Sport writers and recreation editors will on the give up of this paintings recognise the significance in their paintings in interesting the humans this could cause them to do greater.

Media Owners:
The studies findings will permits media proprietors to earmark affordable quantity of money, system and different logistics to guide their recreation table.

Government:
authorities in any respect tiers will see motives for growing nearby recreation in order that nearby recreation could be given greater precedence than the overseas ones. While authorities need to make to be had a few essential machine for recreation reporting.

Future Researcher:
Researchers who could be exploring in this or associated Research will discover the paintings exciting and as a reference point.

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The scope of the look at is confined to the function of the print media in sports activities. The basic aim of this project is to study the influence of print media on the development of sports in Nigeria, but this cannot be done effectively without considering the contribution sports newspapers as a whole have made to the development of sports in Nigeria. cannot be researched.

1.7 Limitations of the study

This study primarily focuses on the impact of media ownership on professionalism, particularly the credibility and objectivity of programming and content across sports newspapers. These factors relate to the absolute power the song’s media owners have over journalists and news editors.

time:
Traveling to different locations was stressful, but time pressure greatly limited this work, as it took a lot of time to collect enough literature material.

finance:
Lack of funding for this project is another obstacle.
There were not enough funds for an extensive search for the necessary material.

material:
Little literature is currently available on this work, as researchers have not really focused on this aspect. However, despite the difficulties faced by this study, positive results were obtained.