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[HCDX] Greek police raids headquarters of former state broadcaster ERT
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headquarters-former-state-broadcaster-ert
Posted 7 November, 2013 - 19:38 by Theo Vatmanidis
ERT_Novermber 2013 police operation © real.gr
At 04:15 am this morning, riot police raided the ERT building in Athens.
Since the closure of the former state broadcaster in June, sacked ERT
employees had defiantly carried on broadcasting from the premises. Greek
Eurovision participation still not secured.
During its long history as the Greek state broadcaster, the Elliniki
Radiofonia Tileorasi (literally Hellenic Radio-Television) had been a
national institution. Apart from being the official broadcaster of the
2004 Olympic Games, ERT also hosted the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in
Athens.
In June, citing budget management issues, the Greek government decided to
shut down the company and replace it with a sanitized smaller
broadcaster. The shock closure of ERT resulted in over 2,500 employees
being made redundant and heavy criticism for the government.
There has been an interim broadcaster, Dimosia Tileorasi (Public
Television), put in place until ERT?s proper replacement, NERIT (New
Hellenic Radio Internet and Television S.A.), is launched. Indeed, it has
been argued that repossessing the ERT headquarters was vital in order to
make NERIT operationally viable.
It is not known when NERIT will go on air; its launching appears to be
crucial for a possible Greek participation in the 2014 Eurovision Song
Contest to be considered by the EBU.
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