Encrypted sports channels and the right to inform A study from the knowledge gap perspective

Abstract

At the present time,the public’s right to the media is increasingly being called, especially with the technological development and the ever-changing technology at the level of the medium, but at the same time we find that an investment trend in media capital maintains the need to display various media contents for a fee, especially in light of the market monopoly. This is the case with encrypted sports channels in the Arab world. The owners of these channels always seek to monopolize the media material and present it to a certain group only through monthly or annual subscriptions that benefit high-income earners, a phenomenon that we find a scientific explanation for in The theory of the knowledge gap, which assumes that the economic and social level plays an important role in determining the knowledge gap from the media, if our study aims to determine the validity of this assumption through a field study on a sample of followers and non-followers of the encrypted Al-Jazeera sports channels as a living model to test this perspective in Arabic context.