DG
Just a small update...
I'm back in Greece now for the first time since ERT was closed. What was showing as ET1 and NET on my EPG are now showing as EDT (Greek Public Television) showing the same program. I channel hopped yesterday and they're proudly showing programs from the ERT archieves with their logo on them. What was ET3 on my TV has been changed to VOULI (Parliament Channel) and is broadcasting. What was VOULI (I had this stored to channel 29 as I neve watched) is also now EDT showing the same feed.
BBC World and DW are both now broadcasting again also. I did do a manual channel scan on analogue but the only channel I could catch was CNN. All others are to weak. I was hoping to catch ERT. I'm sure someone told me it was still being broadcast on the old analogue signal. If it was, it seems to have gone now.
I'm back in Greece now for the first time since ERT was closed. What was showing as ET1 and NET on my EPG are now showing as EDT (Greek Public Television) showing the same program. I channel hopped yesterday and they're proudly showing programs from the ERT archieves with their logo on them. What was ET3 on my TV has been changed to VOULI (Parliament Channel) and is broadcasting. What was VOULI (I had this stored to channel 29 as I neve watched) is also now EDT showing the same feed.
BBC World and DW are both now broadcasting again also. I did do a manual channel scan on analogue but the only channel I could catch was CNN. All others are to weak. I was hoping to catch ERT. I'm sure someone told me it was still being broadcast on the old analogue signal. If it was, it seems to have gone now.
BA
European broadcasters shut down emergency Greek TV service
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/21/greek-emergency-tv-service-closes?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/21/greek-emergency-tv-service-closes?CMP=twt_fd
MI
Link to EBU announcement that it has ended its ERT feed after the first news broadcast: http://www3.ebu.ch/cms/en/sites/ebu/contents/news/2013/08/interim-public-tv-in-greece.html
Last edited by midnightvignette on 21 August 2013 8:44pm
WH
Conspiracy theory? I don't know. But is it worth a read?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/20/1232596/-European-Broadcasting-Union-Sells-Out-Greece-s-Public-Broadcaster
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/20/1232596/-European-Broadcasting-Union-Sells-Out-Greece-s-Public-Broadcaster
MI
What were the EBU meant to do? They intervened because the decision to shut down ERT left Greece without a public source of news. The new public broadcaster might be flawed but that's for the Greeks to knock out between them - the EBU did what they promised.
MI
This is also worth a read: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18335-the-shutdown-of-ert-and-greeces-media-landscape-a-modern-day-wild-wild-west
It's not brilliantly written but does sum up the chaotic regulatory system in Greece, if you can call it a system.
It's not brilliantly written but does sum up the chaotic regulatory system in Greece, if you can call it a system.