Athens
Last week, minister Christos Spirtzis and general secretary Lefteris Kretsis met with the Association of Owners of Private Radio stations of Attica (EIIRA). During the meeting, the frequency map of Attica was submitted for consultation, it was proposed to reduce the frequency distance between the radio stations, it was suggested to have a public organization to conduct the radio surveys, while it appeared that the licensing of radio will wait a bit for the licensing of TV broadcasters.
Just a few weeks after returning Best Radio, the end has come to the dance radio station of Athens. Up Radio 88,6 will be renamed to Panta and converted to Greek and foreign music pop radio. According to the e-tetradio, the administration of the station will be undertaken by Izy Koutiel, manager of former Pop FM. The station name is reminiscent of the former Ola FM radio station in Thessaloniki.
A yet unofficial resignation was submitted by Chairman of the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) Ioannis Laskaridis and members Ioannis Papakostas and Evi Demiri to the chairman of the House Life Konstantopoulou, according to the newspaper of the governmental party Avgi.
The Government Gazette published on Friday night the decision 207 B '/ 30.1.2015 by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, which defines the powers of new Minister of State Nikos Pappás. Specifically, Mr. Pappas gets all responsibilities related to the Secretariat General of Information and the General Secretariat of Communication and Promotion, including the supervision of legal bodies and entities subject to these, and also issues of the Public Broadcaster.
The General Assembly of EBU proceeded to the recognition of the Greek public broadcaster NERIT as an official member of the union. The decision came just before the beginning of this year's Eurovision process, after a series of complications that has lasted about one and a half years, since the closure of ERT.
According to the Amendment 2071/41 12.05.2014 filed in the Ministry of Infrastructure bill for transport, telecommunications and public works, the government gives itself an extension of one more year (the tenth in a row) for granting new radio station licenses, but also for completion of licensing digital broadcast content providers. The amendment xtended the relevant deadlines of December 31, 2014 until December 31, 2015.
The Supervisory Board of the Greek Broadcaster NERIT cannot function, after the resignation of Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board Andreas Zoulas, which followed the resignation of both NERIT's chiefs, Markidimitris and Moronis. The resignation was accompanied by reports of heavy government intervention in the television program, but also for the seizure of 50% of the license fee. Additionally, until further notice, the tender for the selection of the new President - CEO and other members of the Board remains blocked.
A decision of the Supervisory Board of the Greek Public Broadcaster NERIT, defined today Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Mr. George Borodimos as a member of the Board of Directors. According to the press release, "The Management of NERIT is particularly pleased with the choice and believes that Borodimo's participation in the Board - due to his prior service in the field of Justice - will be instrumental in observing transparency, legitimacy and accountability in the functioning of the Broadcaster and to clarify cases of intransparency that may have occurred in the past.
Edit: New CEO of Greek public broadcaster NERIT will be Antonis Makridimitris, Professor of Management at the University of Athens. The new public broadcaster of Greece has got into new adventures, as the dismissal of the CEO Giorgos Prokopakis has been announced. He has been accused for the absolute failure to have a "clean start" for the new broadcaster, as in the end the interim governmental service "DT" is extending its operation, with the only difference that the logos and the websites have been slightly tweaked.
The administration of radio stations Sfera and Derti proceeded with the layoffs of almost all sound engineers (nine out of eleven) as they did not accept the salary cuts and restructuring of their working rights. As their union said, the administration had threatened to fire the engineers if they do not accept a salary cut of 30% and losing their institutional workers' rights, whereas at the same time, despite the financial problems, a lot of young inexperienced engineers with no workers' rights were hired as interns.
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