Kavala
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.
Nine regional radio stations will be formed out of the merge of 19 local public radio services, according to the plan announced by Greek Minister of Communication, Ilias Mossialos. According to the plan, only 2 stations remain as they are (North Aegean, based on Lesbos and South Aegean based on Rhodes). The rest of the stations will be merged as following: Read more »Greek local public radio is being merged
The possible reopening of the municipal radio station of Kavala has been being examined for the last month by the City Council of Kavala, after a proposal by Mayor C. Simitsis. A solution was proposed to assign the operation of the station to a private body, but it caused "doubts about the transparency on using an asset of the municipality. Please note that the radio has been a "living dead" ten years now. Read more »Kavala city council discussing the re-activation of the municipal radio station
The fact that non-professional journalists are being "employed" by ERA Spor for sport coverage in Northern Greece, whatsmore without a salary, has been revealed by the journalist's union party "Asyntachtos Typos". In particular, "ERA Spor, the biggest sports channel with a nationwide coverage, instead of using the existing professional journalists, takes advantage of non-journalists, who are asked to offer particular services, without any salary. Read more »Non-professional, unpaid correspondents for ERA Spor
The Police Department of Kavala intervened yesterday in the Greek city's radio scene with an operation in the Hill Vassilaki. The objective of the SC of Kavala was a radio station which had had his equipment seized once more, in April 2010. According to sources the operation was organized in cooperation with the National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), which requested the assistance of Kavala Police. The Press Release of the police states the following: Read more »Illegal station in the outskirts of Kavala seized by the Police
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