Hala Muscat, Starring In The Skies Of The Festival
Keeping Pace With The Events And Activities And Highlighting The Fine Details
By Abdullah bin Khalfan Al-Rahbi
Media plays a significant role in promoting and introducing the Festival with all its details. There is also considerable momentum of television or radio programs, keeping pace with the events and celebrating atmospheres in Muscat Festival at different times. Among those radio programs is Hala Muscat, broadcast on the General Program waveband, and given by Najat Saad and Mahmoud Al-Balushi in the studio and by Khalfan Al-Asemy and Ibrahim Al-Hadi of the outdoor coverage from Al-Quiram Natural Park and Hura Al-Farisi from Al-Naseem Park. The program broadcast starts from 5:00 to 6:00 pm and directed by Amina Al-Amri, assisted by Hamad Al-Ameri. The program aims to highlight the events and activities of the Festival by delivering package of reports, renewable pieces of news. For more clarification, Khalfan Al-Asemy said, "The program runs in a new cycle of life in the Festival and communicates with the listener through the General Program waveband within a full hour of interesting articles that ship both the visitor and the listener to the Festival events. Also, it contributes to introducing the Festival corners and divisions with their contents through a satisfactory explanation by the participants of the exhibitors or craftsmen, and seeks to highlight a specific craft or workmanship characterizing a certain craftsman, in addition to holding meetings with the visitors and guests from inside or outside the Sultanate, along with reminding the listener of the most important events taking place in the Festival the next day and on air."
His teammate Ibrahim Al-Hadi said, "This second consecutive participation has gained in its essence a number of affluent professional work, that has a fine on-air impact on dealing with the visitor or the listener. This is a gain for me, developing my experience in radio business." He also stressed on the importance of participation in such festivals because it gives us broader horizons about how to prepare reports and hold live interviews in manner tolerated by the listener. Al-Hadi said, "The program, as everybody knows, communicates with the listener throughout the Festival, directly monitoring the Festival events. We wander about the pavilions of the Festival on a daily basis for monitoring a number of events to act as the third eye of the visitor." He continues, "Further more, the program moves the listener to the atmosphere of the Festival in an interesting manner. Therefore, I thank everyone who has made contributions to continue the success of the program in its new version."