Wind Vision was a

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introduced by

Wind Hellas Wind Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, Wind was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote ...

in April 2018. It was based on a

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infrastructure, where digital sound and vision was carried through a

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to a

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and the customer's

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

. In December 2022 Wind Vision has been replaced by

Eon TV Eon TV is a pay television service launched by United Group in October 2021 that is available in Southeast European countries, namely Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia. It is based on a broadband I ...

History

On 25 April 2018,

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Nassos Zarkalis introduced the

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's IPTV service. It was the first

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Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

with

Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ...

integrated. Also, it was the first service offering

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with

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technology. The service offered more than 60 live television channels, access to all

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services such as Google Play Movies,

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, the use of an

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, multi-screen and

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(seven-day catch-up and restart). It was available to all Wind

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subscribers and provides two packages, ''family pack'' and ''full pack'', which includes all

Novasports Novasports is a Greek sports pay television network owned by Nova (Greece), Nova, a subsidiary of Greek telecommunications company of the same name. It is available exclusively on Nova (Greece), Nova, a DTH satellite service. It is available ter ...

channels. By the end of March 2021 it was announced that wind vision had 80,000 subscribers making it the fourth largest

multichannel television A multichannel television service, also known as simply a television provider, is a type of service provider who distributes television programming to its customers for a subscription fee. Subscription television providers distribute television ...

provider. On June 1, 2022, Wind Hellas announced that its stores now have the

platform for sale, essentially marking the first combined product action of the two companies, the completion of the

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under the

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of the second by the end of year is an intention for

United Group United Group B.V. is an alternative telecom provider in the Balkans that operates both telecommunications platforms and mass media outlets. History United Group was formed in 2007, as a Luxembourg-registered multinational entity, in a merger of ...

, providing "holistic"

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and content

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(

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and mobile

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and

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). After nine days (June 10) it was announced that as of December 31 of the same year, the Wind Vision service is being canceled as part of the consolidation, giving the owners of the service the possibility to replace it with the Eon TV platform with exclusive preferential terms.

Channels list

;Greek-language television channels * ERT1 * ERT2 * ERT3 *

Mega Channel MEGA Channel, also known as MEGA TV or just MEGA, is a television network in Greece, that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It is the first and the oldest private television network in Greece. History Mega Channel (1989–2018 ...

Skai TV Skai TV is a Greek free-to-air television network based in Piraeus, operating under Skai Group. It has been broadcasting since 2006 and is available via digital terrestrial transmission, as well as subscription-based services such as Nova and ...

Alpha TV Alpha TV is a Greece, Greek free-to-air channel, one of the biggest stations in Greece. The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on information. The studios are located in Kifissia and Pallini. Alpha TV is owned by A ...

ANT1 Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a free-to-air television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ''ena'' (ένα) is the Greek number ''1'' (one), thus ''ANT1'' is pronounced the same as ''Antenna'' (Αντένν ...

* Star Channel *

Open TV Open TV, formerly Epsilontv, is a Greek free-to-air television station, based in Paiania, East Attica. History It belonged to Radio-television S.A. which was sold from Communist Party of Greece to the Cypriot offshore company A-Orizon Media ...

Makedonia TV Makedonia TV (Greek: Μακεδονία TV) is a Greek private national free-to-air television channel broadcasting from Marousi, Athens and earlier from Thessaloniki, the capital of Macedonia in Greece. It was founded in 1991 by a group of journ ...

;Entertainment channels *

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* E! *

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;Sports channels * Novasports 24HD * Novasports 1HD * Novasports 2HD * Novasports 3HD * Novasports 4HD * Novasports 5HD *

Eurosport 1 Eurosport 1 is a television sports network channel which is a division of Eurosport and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, EMEA version of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and becam ...

Eurosport 2 Eurosport 2 is a sports television channel and a sister channel to Eurosport 1. Both are part of the Eurosport network which is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, EMEA version of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the chan ...

Extreme Sports Channel The Extreme Sports Channel is a pay television channel that was launched from Amsterdam on 1 May 1999. The channel broadcasts in over 60 countries and 12 languages, and covers extreme sport and adventure sports which include surfing, skateboardin ...

Outdoor Channel Outdoor Channel is an American pay television, pay television channel focused on the outdoors, offering programming that includes hunting, fishing, western lifestyle, off-road motorsports and adventure. It was launched on April Fool's Day (April ...

*Nautical Channel *Motorvision.TV *

Ginx TV GINX TV Ltd, doing business as GINX.TV, is a United Kingdom–based media group founded in 2007 dedicated to coverage of video games–related content. In addition to its television channel, which first launched in 2008, GINX TV produces and ...

;Documentary channels *

National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly ''The National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as ''Nat Geo'') is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine ...

National Geographic Wild National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). T ...

Discovery HD Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It initi ...

Travel Channel International Travel Channel International (stylized as Trvl Channel in Asia and Australia since 2021) is a commercial television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and broadcasting travel-themed programmes in the EMEA regions and Asia Pacific, spanning ...

CBS Reality CBS Reality is a European pay television channel specializing in reality-based programming, including true crime documentaries and factual entertainment. It is operated by AMC Networks International in partnership with Paramount Networks EME ...

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Crime & Investigation A&E Television Networks, LLC, doing business as A+E Global Media (formerly A+E Networks) is an American multinational broadcasting company owned and operated as a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company th ...

RT Documentary RT Documentary (RTД, ''literally "RTD"'') is a Russian free-to-air documentary channel presented in both the English and Russian languages. It was launched on 23 June 2011 by the erstwhile President Dmitry Medvedev who visited RT's studio in M ...

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