Preparations for the second Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria (EMCOAN), the umbrella body of Television, Radio and Online Content Owners/Producers/Providers in Nigeria is reaching conclusive stages. The event, tagged, Nigerian Electronic Media Content Exhibition and Awards (NEMCEA), is a three-fold mega featuring exhibitions/content market, conferences and awards.
According to the President of EMCOAN, Mrs. Jibe Ologeh, “we aim to build on the successes of NEMCEA 2022 and do more in 2023, including strengthening strategic relationship with stakeholders, developing the content market industry, bridging the gap that affects our businesses and finding solutions amongst many other projections.”
The maiden edition of this held in August 2022 at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Isaac John Ikeja, Lagos. The edition attracted industry stakeholders, regulators, content aggregators, local and international exhibitors as well as other key players in content production and marketing.
Some of the sponsors, partners and exhibitors to the 2022 edition were Creative Nigeria Summit (CNS), Zee Entertainment (Zee World), Radisson Blu Hotel, the Ministry of Information and Culture, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) amongst others.
“NEMCEA 2022 afforded content producers and aggregators first hand opportunity to interact and exchange values,” said Ologeh.
In one of the featured curated sessions, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) leveraged on the conference to task content producers on the need to pay more attention on children-oriented programmes. They observed that a lot of foreign programmes and cartoons have taken over our airspaces and beclouded our time cherished cultural values.
According to the Project Director, Stephen Alayande, this year, “we are propelled to further engage industry stakeholders and continuously bring to fore discourse, perspectives and salient issues that are of paramount concerns to the Africa content economy. The sponsors, partners, speakers, panelists for NEMCEA 2023 and shortlisted nominees for the awards will be made known to the public very soon during the media unveiling.”
Focused on ‘Revitalising Traditional Broadcast Media in Nigeria’, this year’s event will explore roles of industry stakeholders such as, content producers, advertisers, broadcast media, regulators and others is scheduled for August 22 to 24 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
Registration has already opened for participants, exhibitors and buyers at www.nemcea.com/register while entries for submission of (TV, Radio & Online content only) for the various award categories is also open at www.nemcea.com/awards respectively.
Entries for the various award categories would close on July 15, 2023 while registration for participation and sponsorship continues.
This year’s NEMCEA is a must for all broadcast houses, content producers, budding content creators, content aggregators, as well as all stakeholders in the electronic media content industry.
