The employees of the Greek Church Radio were shocked yesterday to watch what was going on at their radio station. The administration of the station, after futile attempts to proceed with an arbitrary cut on the wages and without any concern, decided unexpectedly to suspend the station's operation. In fact, the administration went even further, so as to lock inside the building the employees who came to work. Read more »
Greek Church Radio employees struggle against the station's shutting down
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Fri, 10/02/2012 - 18:01Cyprus: greek pop radio interfered Turkish mosque loudspeakers
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Sun, 25/12/2011 - 03:21
The religious affairs directorate in the Turkish controlled sector of Cyprus has claimed that deliberate interference caused popular Greek-Cypriot radio programmes to broadcast from mosque rooftops instead of the Islamic call to prayer.
Specifically,dDue to interference in radio frequencies which link the mosques PA systems, Greek pop hits could be heard blasting through the air. Read more »
European School Radio launched today
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Mon, 19/12/2011 - 17:38
The Student Internet Radio, European School Radio, is an original action, which is part of a broader educational philosophy and wants the student to see school as a place of creation and expression. The Student Internet Radio presents the ideas, creations, the concerns of the student community and communicate with today. The involvement of students in all stages of radio production as they participate in groups or technical support or producing programs. Read more »
Athens district radio ceased operation after transmitter stolen amid huge debt
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Fri, 09/12/2011 - 06:41
Radio Xenios has officially ceased operation after many adventures in recent months, as confirmed by the representative of the employees. Ms Kitsaki in a press release, stated:
"Today, 8th of December 2011, the third oldest municipal radio station of Athens, Xenios FM stopped broadcasting following a decision of the municipality administration. We quote some brief history:
On March 2, 2011, the broadcasting equipment of the station had been stolen from the transmitting site in Zacharitsa area of Pikilo mountain. Read more »
General strike on Greek private and municipal radio
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Sun, 27/11/2011 - 22:27
Journalists, administrative employees and technicians in the municipal and private radio stations have announced a 24-hour strike for Monday 27 of November. The radio employees ask the retraction of of their colleagues who have been laid off, the retention of all jobs, signing collective agreements and the proper implementation of existing ones. Wherever the strike takes place, the radio stations will only work with security personnel, i.e. transmitting only music program from Monday morning until Tuesday morning. Read more »
Voice of Greece reduces shortwave broadcasts
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Sat, 05/11/2011 - 19:01
The international radio of "Voice of Greece" has fallen victim of the severe funding cuts. Starting from October 3, the service of the Public Broadcaster addressed to Greeks abroad and listened for seven decades throughout the world, stopped broadcasting on shortwave from 6 am to 6 pm every day.
The lack of skilled technical personnel and lack of resources are to blame for this twelve hours disruption. So, one of the most historic services of the Greek Radio (it started broadcasting in 1940) has now reached the point of weakening and losing its voice across the Greek borders. Read more »
7 Greek academics and 4 western media experts brainstorm about the Greek public broadcaster
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 16:02
The political supervisor of the ERT, Minister Elias Mossialos, announced the members of the committee that will redefine the role of ERT. As he said, these people will not deal with administrative "details", such as the identifying redundant personnel (already decided), "but the think about the steps for creating a modern model of governance and ensure the public nature of the ERT." An advisory group of international "experts" will assist with technical support.
ERT employees: Mr. Mossialos, you got the calculation wrong
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Fri, 30/09/2011 - 13:30
Minister of State Mr. Mossialos, since his inauguration, has been serving the doctrine of "the end justifies the means." His main aim is dissolving ERT by defaming it and instead of "reorganizing" it, he is disorganizing it, in order to deliver it to the interests that benefit from policies of the memorandum. Mr. Professor, whose origins are somewhere in the far west, keeps lying (?) concerning the true image of ERT. In an interview in a Sunday newspaper, he tried to present the staff of ET-1 as too big - 700 - people, compared with ET-3 -351 -. Both data are fake. The question is why does he refer to this data and why is he risking his credibility?
The end of an era for the "radio street" of Thessaloniki, as stations move away to save costs
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Thu, 15/09/2011 - 16:18
The end of an era will be marked soon, as the 20-year-old studios of municipal radio at Thessaloniki's Angelaki str. are moving out, following a plan of its supervisor and municipal advisor, Sofia Aslanidou. According to her announcement before the municipal council, the municipal information company managed to get new premises in the Eteria Makedonikon Spoudon building, that now houses the municipal TV100, with no rent increase. The radio will be accommodated in the new rooms, while the existing facilities of television are being renovated. Read more »
Greek public broadcaster reduces personnel by 10%
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Tue, 13/09/2011 - 16:08
The Greek Public Radio (ERT) and TV and the Athenian/Macedonian Press Agency (APA/MPA) have been included in the list of the Greek public organisations that are expected to reduce their personnel by 10% immediately, by identifying them as "labour redundancy". Given a first estimation, the ERT is expected to lose around 380 employees during the first phase of the reform. The administration of each organisation has two weeks' time in order to devise a list of the employees to be sacked. The ones who have met the retirement age and those who have low qualifications (primary or secondary education) will be the first ones in the list. In case these employees don't amount up to the desired 10%, employees with general administrative tasks and employees in departments of administrative support and secretariats will follow. Read more »
