The Hellenic Radio (; or ERA) is the main public radio broadcaster in

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. Founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of public broadcaster

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly shortened to ERT (), is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece. History Overview ERT began broadcasting in 1938 as the Radio Broadcasting Service or YRE (). Followin ...

(ERT), it broadcasts four domestic radio channels and the international

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channel

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History

After the collapse of the

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, the conservative Karamanlis government brought the main public television channel EIRT under civilian government control. It was renamed to

(ERT). Both the second domestic television channel (later renamed ERT2) and public radio broadcasting however remained under the auspices of the

Armed Forces Information Service The Armed Forces Information Service (, ''Ypiresia Enimeroseos Enoplon Dynameon'', ''YENED'') was the television and radio station of the Greek Armed Forces, operating from 1966 until its conversion to a civilian broadcaster in 1982. History TED b ...

(YENED). It was only in 1982 that the socialist

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government dissolved YENED and placed all public broadcasting under civilian government control. In 1987, the four domestic channels

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, ERA 2, ERA 3 and

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as well as the multilingual shortwave service

(ERA 5) were consolidated under the new legal structure ''Hellenic Radio'', a subsidiary of the now overarching Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). The same 1987 law provided for the establishment of municipal and private-sector stations. This wasn't before the first municipal station Athens 98.4 FM already went on air on 31 May 1987 without a proper license, but backed by then-mayor of Athens

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. Subsequently a number of stations opened and state radio gradually declined in both audience and importance, with large media corporations gaining ground. By 2002, Hellenic Radio however still maintained 19 regional stations throughout the country. On 11 June 2013, ERA continued its operation with 15 local stations. At the beginning of 2018, trial digital broadcasts began in

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on the frequency 12C (227.36 MHz).

Radio stations

ERΤ regional radio

*ERΤ Aegean (

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) *ERΤ

Volos Volos (; ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos ...

*ERΤ

Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; ; ) or Zante (, , ; ; from the Venetian language, Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands, with an are ...

*ERΤ

Heraklion Heraklion or Herakleion ( ; , , ), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital city, capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion (regional unit), Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in G ...

*ERΤ

Ioannina Ioannina ( ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in northwester ...

*ERΤ

Kavala Kavala (, ''Kavála'' ) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the A2 motorway, a one-and ...

*ERΤ

Kalamata Kalamata ( ) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after Patras, and the largest city of the Peloponnese (region), homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia regiona ...

*ERΤ

Corfu Corfu ( , ) or Kerkyra (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; including its Greek islands, small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. The island is part of the Corfu (regio ...

*ERΤ

Kozani Kozani (, ) is a town in northern Greece, capital of Kozani (regional unit), Kozani regional unit and of Western Macedonia. It is located in the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas, Aliakmonas riv ...

*ERΤ

Komotini Komotini (, , ), is a city in the Modern regions of Greece, region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece and its capital. It is also the capital of the Rhodope (regional unit), Rhodope. It was the administrative centre of the Rhodope- ...

*ERΤ

Larissa Larissa (; , , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 148,562 in the city proper, according to the 2021 census. It is also the capital of the Larissa ...

*ERΤ

Orestiada Orestiada (, Katharevousa, formerly ), is the northeasternmost, northernmost and newest city of Greece and the second largest town of the Evros (regional unit), Evros regional unit of western Thrace, Thrace. Founded by Greek refugees from Edirne a ...

*ERΤ

Patras Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...

*ERΤ Pyrgos *ERΤ

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*ERΤ

Serres Serres ( ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northern Greece. The c ...

*ERΤ

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*ERΤ

Florina Florina (, ''Flórina''; known also by some alternative names) is a town and municipality in the mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. The town of Florina is the capital of the Florina regional uni ...

*ERΤ

Chania Chania (, , ), also sometimes romanization of Greek, romanized as Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania (regional unit), Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno ...

On weekdays from 7:00 to 10:00, the regional radio stations of the ERΤ network used to send a local news program, covering the individual station's broadcasting area. This was followed by a news program covering the larger region. During the afternoon hours, the stations broadcast an entertainment program, partly adopted from

First First most commonly refers to: * First, the ordinal form of the number 1 First or 1st may also refer to: Acronyms * Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array * Far Infrared a ...

Second Programme Second Programme (, ''Deftero Programma'') is the second public radio station of Greece's state broadcaster, ERT. The station consists of Greek music and culture broadcasts. History The Second Programme originated on May 11, 1952 as a result of ...

and

ERA Sport The ERA Sport (, ''ERA Sport'') is the sports radio station of ERT. The station broadcasts 24-hour sports programs. The programme also included political news. ERA Sport is one of the most popular sports radio station in the country throughou ...

. Some regional radio stations produced their own local program at a second local news bulletin between 18:00 and 20:00, and a mostly entertaining weekend program.

Domestic and special interest stations

* First Programme (ERA 1) * Second Programme (ERA 2) * Third Programme (ERA 3) *

Kosmos 93.6 Kosmos Radio () or Kosmos 93.6 & 107.0, is a public radio channel of Greece's public broadcaster, ERT, the most popular among its radio stations. The program consists of world music, jazz, folk, reggae, latin idioms, hip-hop, afro and alternativ ...

102 FM 102 FM is a radio station broadcasting on 102 MHz FM in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is owned by ERT3, ERT's regional public broadcaster for northern Greek audiences. It broadcasts news programs and talk shows. History 102 FM was one of the thre ...

* 95.8 FM (Greece) * In addition to those above, there are five online radio stations dedicated to specific musical genres; namely Deutero Laika for

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and

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music, Kosmos Jazz, Tríto Maestro for classical music, Radio

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(launched ahead of the 2023 contest) and Deytero Paradosiaka for

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. Former, discontinued stations are

Trito Programma Vrahea Trito Programma Vrahea, which translates to 'Third Programme (of the Macedonian Radio Station) - Shortwave' was a radio station operated by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). Founded in 1993, the station served as ERT 3's international s ...

ERT3 ERT3 (, "ERT Tria") is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (). It is an entertainment channel, and although it broadcasts nationwide, most of its content i ...

's international short-wave station and , a radio station for immigrants in Greece.

References

External links

* {{European Broadcasting Union Members Hellenic Radio Public radio in Greece 1987 establishments in Greece

History

Radio stations

ERΤ regional radio

Domestic and special interest stations

References

Further reading

External links