1. Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
(ERT)
Πετμεζά Βαρβάρα-Νίκη
E’ Semester

2. Contents
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The history
The Greek Public Broadcasting in 1987
Radio
 10 different radio stations
Television
 6 different channels
 Sites
Closure of ERT
Greek Public Television
 Sites
Opening of ERT
Articles about ERT
Pictures of percentages
Bibliography

3. The history
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November 1935 a law was established and published by the dictatorship
of Metaxa in order to create a radio broadcasting service.
Greek Radio and Television (ERT, limited company) in Greece and wholly
owned by the state.
Three television stations and 28 radio stations in Greece.
Founding member of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 1950, first
member.
1951 Armed Forces Broadcasting Station (AFBS) so as to be educated.
1982 EIRT merged with AFBS in one body named Greek Radio 2, currently
named as NET (1997).
1974 ERT was successor of former EIR, later EIRT with the addition of TV
(National Broadcasting Corporation Television) under the law 230 of 1975.
1976 legal status changed as it became a public limited company funding
ERT via electricity bills.

4. The history
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Most services of ERT are housed in the Radiomegaro which is located in
Agia Paraskevi.
1982 Richardos Someritis asks for help via a letter in BBC on how to
separate the material of ERT.
GR1: journalistic piece of information
GR2: educational and cultural character
GR3: stays as it is having as headquarters Thessaloniki.
GRT received the blow of the intervention of Greek state.
The forth power instead of controlling the other powers found several
times manipulated by political factors.

5. The Greek Public Broadcasting in
1987
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1987 GRT is reorganized due to the introduction of private stations.
GR1 and GR2 are merged into a single institution GRT which functions as a
limited company legal entity under private law.
GRT is controlled by the state and is financially independent.
140 private TV stations, national and local, appear upsetting the State
monopoly.
The deregulation had great importance for the domestic advertising
market to whom gave a huge boost.
Development of an entire production section of TV programs in Greece as
well as the increase of the introduction of TV programs for other
countries.

6. Radio

7. Radio
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ERT broadcast radio programs under the name of ERA since 1988.
ERA1 (First Program) 91,6 and 105,8 a news-oriented station.
ERA2 (Second Program) 103,7 and 102,9 a music station.
ERA3 (Third Program) 90,9 and 95,6 a more classical music-arts and
culture station.
ERA Sport (ERA4) 101,8 and 100,9 a sports-oriented station, regular news
every hour and sports news every half-hour.
Two local stations were aired in Central Greece (Athens, Corinth).
KOSMOS 93,6 and 107 FM a world music station.
FILIA 106,7 FM a multilingual station directed mostly towards immigrants.
Regional stations 102 FM (Thessaloniki), 95,8 FM (Thessaloniki), Third
Schedule R/S Macedonia (Thessaloniki).

8. Radio
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The 17 regional radio stations: Corfu, Patras, North Aegean with
headquarters in Lesvos. Heraklion, Chania, Komotini, Kavala, Serres,
Florina, Ioannina, Volos, Larissa, Tripolis, Kalamata, Pyrgos Orestiadas,
Zante and South Aegean based in Rhodes (Dodecanese).
ERT broadcast the Voice of Greece (ERA5) for the international audience,
using shortwave as the ERT regional station in Macedonia does.
September 2004 ERA Sport and ERA5 were added to Dish Network’s of
Greek channels giving access to two of Greece’s public radio stations in
North America’s viewers.
During the night hours all ERA programs aired common night program.
12 June 12013 all ERT radio stations shut down.

9. Television

10. Television
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ERT had three nationwide TV stations.
ET1 and NET emitted from the main ERT headquarters in Athens.
ET3 emitted from Thessaloniki and is a regional channel which caters to
North Greece.
The official site which now is “Under construction” http://www.ert.gr/ .
Free voice to society http://www.ertopen.com/ .
ΕΡΤ Α.Ε. Which is also closed.

11. ERT 1

12. ERT 1
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The program put forward in recent years has been largely educational,
cultural, sports and entertainment facilities. Also displayed a small
percentage of church programs.
Greek Series: 1977-1978 (9). 1978-1979 (10). 1979-1980 (8). 1980-1981
(10). 1981-1982 (2). 1982-1983 (7). 1983-1984 (7). 1984-1985 (2) 19851986 (4). 1986-1987 (7). 1987-1988 (7). 1988-1989 (7). 1989-1990 (7).
1990-1991 (5). 1991-1992 (4). 1992-1993 (6). 1993-1994 (6). 1994-1995
(2). 1995-1996 (4). 1996-1997 (1). 1997-1998 (4). 1998-1999 (4). 19992000 (11). 2000-2001 (5). 2001-2002 (2). 2002-2003 (1). 2003-2004 (0)
This season the Et1 not reported any new series on TV, the same
happened on 2005-2007 and 2009-2013. 2004-2005 (1). 2007-2008 (1).
2008-2009 (2).

13. ERT 1
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Foreign Series: “Rebelde way”, “Chiquititas”, “Floricienta”, “Cebollitas”,
“Lost” (3rd and 5th cycle), “Ghost Whisperer (1st and 2nd cycle), “Criminal
Minds” (1st and 3rd cycle), “Desperate Housewifes” (1st and 5th cycle).
Youth Program: “Hannah Montana”, “Jonas”, “Zack and Cody, mischief
hotel”, “Zack and Cody, at sea”, “Wizards of Goueverly”, “Disney Channel
Original Movies”.
Children’s Program: 19 Disney series for kids. Some well known are:
“Alladin”, “Hercules”, “House of Mouse”, “Lilo and Stitsch”, “The little
Mermaid”, “Pepper Ann”, “Recess” etc.

14. NET

15. NET
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It had programs of all kinds, including information entertainment (foreign
and Greek series, magazine, TV games), sports, films, documentaries,
music programs and children’s programs.
ERT2 reported very popular series of 1980’s and extensive programs for
kids. With the entry of private television in 1989 the viewership fell to
single digits and that led the channel to its complete reformation of
entertainment in mainly informative.
1997 the name ET2 was repealed and replaced by “New Greek Television”
(NET).

16. NET
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Children’s Program: Every weekend from 10a.m. until 12p.m. children’s
series animated Walt Disney were shown. Also, every Friday night and
Saturday afternoon at iteration unadvertised original films of Disney
Channel and Walt Disney Channel daily from 10 a.m. till 12p.m. 17 Disney
series, most well know “Aladdin”, “American Dragon”, “Hercules”, “Kim
Possible”, “Quack Pack”, “Tarzan”, “Timon and Pumba” etc.
Youth Program: “Hannah Montana”, “Wizards of Goueverly”, “Jonas”,
“An Opportunity for Sony” etc.

17. ET3

18. ET3
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The informative program was rich, while regarding the entertainment
had a “serious” profile, showcasing mainly foreign documentary
productions as well as Greek cultural and educational programs.
TV show ET3: 17 shows on ET3 channel. Many of which are well
producted and well know such as “Comfuzio”, “The sports arena”,
“Dispersion”, “Sunday in village”, “Trully scenarios” presented by Nick
Aslanidis, “The place and the song” presented by George Melikis and
many other big shows.

19. ERT World

20. ERT World
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The international channel of ERT for the Greeks.
The channel plan includes programs from the three channels ERT ET1,
NET, ET3.
The program was divided into two zones, daily and weekend zone.
Everyday zone has news and information programs at specific time.
The weekend zone programs has interest and sport.
From the ET1: 27 series and shows. “Nation females”, “Rainbow”,
“Escape”, “Art@Ert”, “Musical tradition”, “The salt of the earth”, “Digital
Greece”, “Mediterraneo”, “Greek movie” and many others.
From the NET: “It has taste”, “We stay in Greece”, “Reportage without
frontiers”, “Sthn ugeia mas”, “Netweek”, “Correspondents”, “Seven”,
“The time machine” etc.
From the ET3: “Cinemania”, “Weather”, “Greek film”, “Sunday in the
village”, “Axion esti” etc.
Live sports programs: “A1 Ethniki”, “Super League”.

21. ERT Digital

22. ERT Digital
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20 of March 2006 ERT had used free digital TV program titled ERT Digital.
Part of the digital TV had begun broadcasting channels Sports+, Prisma+,
Cine+ and Info+.
The digital channels broadcast by ERT until March 2012.
From September 2010 began broadcasting digitally and nationwide
television stations (ET1, NET, ET3).

23. ERT HD

24. ERT HD
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From April 2011 ERT broadcast the first channel high definition HD ERT.
It has no program clock and transmits only when emissions were obtained
in high resolution (HD-High Definition).
When the channel is off emit the old color bars or logo ERT HD.

25. Closure of ERT
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11 June 2013, it was announced that ERT was led to closure.
Before midnight on the 12th of June, the signal from the radio antennas
across Greece was interrupted. There were some other channels using the
same transponders which lost their signal.
That movement triggered a wave of protest across Greece. Citizens
gathered outside the Radiomegaro of ERT in solidarity, ESHEA (Union of
Athens Daily Newspaper), GSEE (General Confederation to Greek
Workers), ADEDY fell to 24-hour strike.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in a letter addressed by its
president and the general manager of the organization asked Antonis
Samaras to reverse that decision noting that “profound dismay on behalf
of Europe’s entire public service media”.

26. Closure of ERT
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Despite the announcement, the ERT employees returned to work.
After closing the transmitter and the website, ERT emitted satellite
equipment with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
12 June 2013 the Greek government announced the replacement of ERT
with the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT). It is
expected to launch services by the end of August 2013 as “Public
Television”.
Until 24th of October 2013 the employees of the channel were able to offer
NET’s and ET3’s programs and also the radio programs of ERA Athens, ERA
Thessaloniki and the Third Program via conventional means.

27. Greek Public Television
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On July 10th SDR emitted of the television frequencies of ERT and it was
declared that SDR broadcasts from a private studio and it was a matter of
hours to have again a normal program on TV.
The logo was replaced from SDRs to SFs , for unknown reason.
There were many reactions on the opening of the new channel but mainly
the redundant employees of the ERT denounced that the creation of the
new bearer is “false copy” of the former channel.
The channel has projected movies from the Greek Film Center, second
transmission films and archival material, biographies and documentaries
found in the ERT. On August 21st the first live informative broadcasting
took place. There are, also, UEFA Champions League and Euroleague
matches and Formula 1 (F1) and at 18:00 the Main News Bulletin is
transmitted.
The official site of the channel http://www.hprt.gr/
The page on facebook https://www/facebook.com/hprgr
The page on twitter https://twitter.com/hprtgr

28. Opening of ERT
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During the meeting that Mr. Samaras, Kapsis, Stournaras and Ms. Stamati
had, it is said that they tried to find ways in order to be displaced from
this situation. They say that there is a scenario of reopening the ERT, with
all the employees and a contract notice job for new public broadcasters so
as to man the SDR. Another thought is to proclaim 3-month notice jobs
concerned to the transition.

29. Articles about ERT
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The announcement of ERT’s employees: “The government’s “black” in a
new campaign against the Free ERT “cast “ the second satellite that we
used for the broadcast. Throwing again “black” where we lightened and
colored over 4 months now. Again trying to silence us. We will do
everything in order to fail. Keep your radios tuned to the frequency of the
medium. Communicate with regional stations of the ERA which exist in
your area. Mostly, tune into ertopen.com, thepressproject.gr and any
other site tha offers the TV and radio program of the ERT online. It is now
most likely for the business of “black” to be accompanied by the
evacuation operation of Radiomegaro at Agia Paraskevi and all other
places of ERT in Thessaloniki in Greece. We invite you to be vigilant and
alert. Contact with the employees of ERT. Continue to safeguarding and
information. Stand by our side. In order to continue hearing the
unfettered voice of the people’s frequencies of ERT. ERT is all you.
Employees of ERT who fight”.

30. Articles about ERT
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Fruitless was the meeting of redundant of former ERT with Pantelis Kapsis
(Deputy Public Radio and Television). Representatives of about 200 that
remain in Radiomegaro suggested the function of NERIT so as to occupy
people of former ERT that are to be retired by de facto work, without any
references in dismissals. The Minister repeated that the government’s
position is to evacuate the radiomegaro and that the question is no longer
under its jurisdiction. As far as the issue of damages is concerned, he
stated that he is not competent to answer and referred them to the
Minister of Finance.
Early in the morning of November 7th, police intervention was held
outside of Radiomegaro in order to get the squatters out. The prosecutor
counted the machines and the equipment of the channel and reassured
that there is no damage. The building of ERT will be sealed and guarded
by police forces. While the speaker of ERA station was “on air”, the police
came into and told him to stop. The journalist concluded his speech and
asked the officers “This is your demand?” they answered positively and
then he also said “Here I must leave. Soul deeply”. These are the last
words heard on air.

31. Statistics
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Opinion of the shutdown of ERT
I disagree
5% 3%
I agree
27%
65%
Neither agree
nor disagree
No opinion

32. Statistics
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6 hours before the shutdown
30
25
20
ΕΤ1
ΝΕΤ
ΕΤ3
15
10
5
0
18:0019:00
19:0020:00
20:0021:00
21:0022:00
22:0023:00
23:0000:00

33. Statistics
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After the shutdown- The new channel
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
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SDR
MEGA
ANT1
STAR
ALPHA
02:0006:00
07:0008:00
09:0010:00
11:0012:00
13:0013:30

34. Bibliography
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Wikipedia (Greek)- “Media Radio and Television”
Wikipedia (Greek)- “ERT” (Hellenic Radio and Television)
Wikipedia (Translated)- “Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation”
Newspaper “To Vima”
Source: Matrix24 (2013, November). Cut by satellite. Retrieved November 3,2013
from http://www.inews.gr/253/ert-kopike-i-doryforiki-metadosi.htm
Christos NE Ieridis (2013, Nivember). Unsuccessful meeting of Kapsis and
the employees of former ERT. Retrieved from
http://www.tanea.gr/news/greece/article/5051116/xwris-apotelesma-hsynanthsh-kapsh-ergazomenwn-ths-prwhn-ert/
Viewing (2013, June). The viewing of ERT before the shutdown. Retrieved
November 3,2013 from http://www.fimes.gr/2013/06/ert-kleisimo-tiletheasi/
Labros Konstantaras (2013, July). “What is the viewing of the new channel of ERT?
How many watch SDR?” Retrieved November 3,2013 from
http://www.zappit.gr/default.php?pname=Article&cat_id=8&art_id=25570
Protothema Greece (2013, November). “Storming riot in Radiomegaro ERT”.
Retrieved November 7,2013 from
http://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/326156/astunomikes-dunameisepiheiroun-sto-radiomegaro-tis-ert/#comments