It was yet another bland night on the airwaves last night, with not one talking head discussing econ or business-relevant topics.

On Masaa’ DMC, Osama Kamal on the Ismail cabinet’s decision to stop issuing licenses for new billboards with the head of the Federation of Egyptian Industries’ advertising division, Ashraf Khairy. Khairy told Kamal that Cabinet’s decision came in response to a request his division had presented, and is the fruit of a committee Prime Minister Sherif Ismail had established in March to look into the issue (watch, runtime 6:57). In the grand scheme of things, this is a sideshow, but we’re not complaining — billboards are overpriced blights that nobody can read while doing 120 km/h down the Mehwar anyway — and that folks stuck in gridlock are too frustrated to look up and read. But they sure as [redacted] are ugly.

Kol Youm’s Amr Adib said that the decision is grossly overdue and needs to be complemented with a new system to re-price the billboards and their licensing (watch, runtime: 1:58).

The father of Mohamed El Hayes also phoned in to tell Adib that his son, a police captain rescued after being captured by terrorists during the Wahat attack, is preparing for a second surgery. The captain apparently has significant intel to share with security forces once his health recovers (watch, runtime 4:52).

Over on Yahduth fi Masr, Sherif Amer noted that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi had visited El Hayes yesterday following surgery.

Amer spent the rest of his episode having his weekly chat with political analyst Mostafa El Fekki, this time about the prospects for next year’s presidential elections. El Fekki called on political parties to present nominees to run in the elections, saying that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi would not accept re-election without any competition.

Hona Al Asema’s Lamees Al Hadidi spent the entirety of her episode paying tribute to composer and singer Mohamed Fawzy (watch, runtime 2:00:18).