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Several radio stations of Ioannina went off air yesterday, this time due to an uncommon reason: an old radio mast in Liggiades, Ioannina collapsed on the cables of the electrical company. As a result, the power at the site was interrupted, until the damage was repaired. The incident was caused by the antenna mast that used to belong to the radio station Christianismos, which has ceased broadcasts to the city since years. The abandoned mast was victim of the weather conditions, as it has not had any maintenance all these years. ΣυνέχειαRadio broadcasts of Ioannina disrupted when abandoned antenna collapsed
The pressure put on the two self-organized radio station is due to the legal complaint that private radio station SKAI has submitted against Radio Entasi. This information derives from an announcement of Radio Entasi 100,1, which in fact is accusing SKAI for trasmitting an illegal "silent" signal on 100,6 MHz, in order to protect their 100,3, as well as for promoting fascists through its programs. Since yesterday, after pressure by the Public Prosecutor, Radio Entasi has been forcefull taken off-air, whereas Radio 98FM and Athens Indymedia have had their internet disconnected. ΣυνέχειαSKAI initiated lawsuit against independent radio of Athens
Two non-commercial stations of Athens with political content and the news website Athens Indymedia are threatened with repression. According an announcement by 98FM, the Public Prosecutor has put pressure, resulting into the interruption of the internet connection of 98FM (93.8 FM) and Athens Indymedia, whereas Radio Entasi 100.1 has unexpectedly interrupted transmissions. The collectives call for a manifestation on Friday April 12th at 1pm, at the Central University Campus Square of Zografou. ΣυνέχειαTwo "free radios" of Athens under attack
The agenda of the plenary session of the Greek National Broadcasting Council (ESR) today included the application of the unpaid employees of news Flash radio, who want to acquire its frequency, as it is suggested by a recent law about bankrupt radio stations. According a report by Vassilis Koufopoulos, the Union of Owners of Private Radio Stations of Attica (EIIRA) intervened and asked to speak to the Council, which has been scheduled for next week. The owners seem to block such moves. ΣυνέχειαAthens radio owners block the transfer of bankrupt stations to the employees
"Sto Kokkino", the radio station of the Greek political party SYRIZA seems to be preparing to expand its coverage to Thessaloniki soon, by having a frequency to be aired all around the region of Central Macedonia. The Thessaloniki press office of the main oposition party seems to have reached an advanced level of negociations for a deal on using an existing local frequency. The new radio station will have an autonomous local news slot of several hours, whereas, as expected, the program from Athens will also be relayed. ΣυνέχειαRadio station of left-wing main opposition party expanding its coverage around Greece
Greek radio comedy show Hellenophrenia attracted a lot of attention yesterday, due to a phone prank on the hot topic of Cyprus' bailout. During the phone-calls, which became tense, Cyprus politicians were heard blaming Greek politics for the current situation, without knowing they are on air, on Real FM, the most popular radio station of Greece. Apostolis Barbayiannis, under the fake name of Miltos Tererés, pretended to be working for the office of the Greek governmental party, on behalf of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. ΣυνέχειαGreek radio phone prank triggers anger of Cyprus MPs
Radiodays 2013 is over and it has been a very fruitful experience. Being first time there, I managed to discover lots about the potential of the radio and its status around Europe. I have already written dedicated articles and some dozens of tweets on many topics. But I think a quite useful thing would be to underline a few negative things, which organizers could improve in the next year(s) conferences:
- Entry barrier ΣυνέχειαHow could RadioDays be better? #RDE13
Mobile phone owners and radio analysts have been annoyed since quite some time by the tricky situation concerning FM radio on smatphones. Different radio chips are used by each manufacturer, whereas Android does not yet offer native radio support, making things very complicated if one wants to end up with a unified application that works everywhere. ΣυνέχειαNative FM radio support coming to Android (and other FM smartphone adventures)
One of the biggest radio conferences of the world will be covered tomorrow and the day after, for the Greek readers of radiofono.gr. Radio Days Europe are taking place Monday and Tuesday at Berlin Conference Center and they are expected to gather hundreds of delegates from public and private radio broadcasters of Europe. Radiofono.gr, via an accredited corresponded, is offering regular updates in Greek, through its website and twitter, under hashtag #rde13gr. ΣυνέχειαRadio Days Europe in Greek
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