Nikos Michalitsis

The Greek government decided to shut down the public broadcaster ERT. Despite international outrage, big private channels in Greece supported the government’s decision through news bulletins and informative shows. And that was not all. [...] Private channel technicians were present during police operations at ERT transmitters and at first turned them off and then helped broadcast a digital signal with vertical bars through two private providers (OTE & Digea). This raises question if these private companies are in any way implicated in ERT’s shutdown. The truth is that not only are they implicated but also they played an active role, especially Digea, in a government plan aiming to obtain absolute control of the Greek broadcasting sector. Read more »#ERT shutdown and how Greek digital TV spectrum is given to a private monopoly