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After a meeting on February 17, the Administrative Board of the Greek Public Broadcaster (ERT) ordered the switch-off of eleven medium wave transmitters (MW) whereas only nine medium wave transmitters with their respective programs of the Greek Public Radio will keep operating. As it can been seen in the tables and the map below, in fact it is the high-power transmitters that survive, most of which are located near the border and had been used previously for the "International Network of ERA". Additionally ERT retains the frequency of the “First Radio Service” (729) and “Filía” (666) from Attica, and also the one of ERA Sport (792) hosted by the former Voice of America transmitter that was re-installed in 2002 at Malgara. A relatively low power transmitter in Florina will also be retained, probably because of its location being nearby to the FYROM.

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

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 »Greek public broadcaster reduces personnel by 10%

Minister Ilias Mossialos announced the austerity measures for the reform of the Greek public broadcaster ERT, letting only half of the organization intact. Apart from switching off ET1 (the national channel number one), the digital Cinesport+, the one which is being actually hurt by the reforms is the public radio. Thessaloniki-based ERT3 is loosing two of its 3 radio services, the cultural service 9.58 and the shortwave service. Read more »Greek public broadcaster shuts down 11 radio services, 2 TV channels, 10 MW transmitters and its radio magazine