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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 ERTs 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. my radio shack: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/album/282394 http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )
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