ALL Greek ERT channels due off air tonight!

[Agorima]

Only ERT World is still alive.

 

[Br492]

I am watching what happening in Athens through ertworld,because greek private tv stations is like CNN Turk when it was airing penguins while Istanbul was on flames.they are not showing everything

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Yes , i'm going from ERT world to Euronews (they both begin with E so they're close on the menu)

 

[timo_w2s]

According to Euronews analogue ERT TV channels are off air now as are all their radio stations. The digital TV signals are still up as technicians have managed to sort something out to keep them on air a little longer.

 

[timo_w2s]

I've lost the Hotbird feed.

 

[Analoguesat]

Yes so have I. Yia Sus ERT

 

[Br492]

No there is no digital signal from ERT terrestrial everywhere,now is off also ertworld

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Indeed that appears to be the end.

 

[timo_w2s]

Still broadcasting via Euronews

 

[Br492]

There is no sound from greek television through euronews though

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Signals from the studio have been rerouted by technicians still in the building. One wonders how long they can keep going.

 

[remlap]

Here are some screenshots from few feeds and broadcasts I've found

http://imgur.com/a/wEDIE

ERT3 can be heard on 7450 KHZ officially till 23:00 but who knows how long it will last.

 

[Agorima]

Does exist a live streaming of the channel?

 

[Captain Jack]

Never heard this happen anywhere in the world. Finances in Greece must be REALLY bad..... So people without Nova have nothing to watch?

 

[remlap]

Never heard this happen anywhere in the world. Finances in Greece must be REALLY bad..... So people without Nova have nothing to watch?

Commercial stations are still on air 902 is meant to be simulcasting it, 902 is run by the Greek communist party but is on the commercial terrestrial mux.

More interesting is the contracts ERT had with BBC World and DW to retransmit their signal on ERT's mux.

 

[remlap]

Does exist a live streaming of the channel?

http://www.thepressproject.gr/live/44219/Louketo-stin-ERT

 

[strs65]

Having looked it up on Wiki, it's interesting that the Greek television licence is paid through electric bills. For each account (whether business premises or offices) the contribution is €51.60. Doesn't seem a lot but in 2006 the revenue was €262.6M......So, have the Greeks stopped paying their electric bills?

Oh the government have kindly suspended the licence payments as there is no official TV broadcast to watch....

No they didn't stop paying the bills (well, actually some they did, but this was not a problem for ERT). As a matter of fact ERT had a surplus of 50-60 million euros the last two years. The decision to close the channels is purely political, in order (mainly) to satisfy the promise to the troika from the greek goverment (bliah) to suck a number of public servants (ERT employs 2650 of them, although none is paid from the state budget, so there will be no economic savings at all with the closing of ERT).

 

[strs65]

Btw, the plan is to reopen a "rebirthed" ERT in three months with 1000 employees and less channels...

 

[Agorima]

As far as I can understand, the ERT workers are determined to stay at the main building despite the threats of the police.

 

[BlindFaith]

..transmissions continue on 7E, 10958V, 4937, 8PSK, 3/4 and 11024H, 4937, 8PSK, 3/4. Could be a recording though. I don't speak the language ;)