On June 11th, the Greek government shut down ERT, the Greek public broadcaster, without even asking the Greek Parliament. The government claimed that shutting down ERT was part of a wider plan to restructure the Greek public television, by establishing a new broadcaster that will replace it in a few months. In the meantime, the country will be left...

EBU General Assembly calls for urgency in restoring public service media in Greece After the Greek Government took ERT off air on 11 June, the country's highest administrative court, the Council of State, ordered the return to air of public service broadcasting as soon as possible. The EBU membership welcomes the court’s interim ruling, which reaff...

According to PARON newspaper column “typologies” this document has no legal significance, given that it does not meet legal requirements, such as the official stamp of the corporation and the signatures of the two parties. ERT employees’ layoffs are illegal, since they were belatedly announced by Yiannis Stournaras and Simos Kedikoglou and are not...

Every Greek citizen should have access to ERT, with the inalienable right to communicate their opinions and complaints to the public broadcaster.The Music Ensembles, as always, seek to elevate the mood of the Greek people through art, tradition, and the Greek character and culture. Since the return to democracy in 1974, these have been attacked by...

Because it is ERT that allocates funding for Greek Cinema, not the private channels - with the exception of NOVA.Because ERT has the E.U. MICROFILM project, which funds the productions of new film directors.Because ERT produces and broadcasts all documentaries as a co-producer, a producer or under contract.Because ERT produces all children’s progra...

What is Digea?Digea’s main activity is to provide digital coding and broadcasting services for terrestrial digital television (Network Provider) and has been certified by the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission only for the first phase of digital switchover at 23 locations in Greece, despite the fact that both European and Greek legisla...

On June 11, 2013, the Greek Government unexpectedly decreted the shutdown of the state-owned Radio and TV network , ERT. This was done by means of a ministerial decree bypassing Parliament. 2.700 jobs are concerned.The group of ver.di in the enterprise T-Systems Darmstadt condemns the action of the Greek Government. We consider it as an incomparabl...

Major sports events – Cost: 63 million euros Apart from the 2650 employees’ severance payment, ERT and the Greek state will suffer an injury of at least 63 million euros because of the breach of already signed contracts for the broadcast of major sports events. It is indicative that “2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil” broadcasting rights have already bee...