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Interesting talk stations in Thesaloniki https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/fm-talk As with every city, there are talk radio stations with mostly news and information related to the city , the same happens with Thesaloniki having many radios stations . Here i will describe my most interesting radio stations Focus FM . This is a very new (started March 2014 ) radio station located nearby the harbor of Thessaloniki , taking the frequency of Studio 3 , an old pal of me who aired mostly traditional songs. The main persons of the new station come from ERA mainly Venieris , Triantafilidis and Velopoulos who were commenter of ERA Thessaloniki the older times . The second person is now entering the politics with Syriza (the left wing party ) while Velopoulos was for many years member of the parliament of the right wing party New Democracy who then changed into another smaller right wind party and then left the politics for the sake of selling international politics oriented books including many of his writings . The station is a very fast growing , which now has a share of 2.8% , ie is in the top 10 stations of the city in just 9 months. Their program consists except of politics and commentaries , with a very rich news headlines bulletin every top of hour , even on early hours on nights, a sports program musical programs esp in afternoons and nights a vintage musical program with highlights of 80s passing midnight , a program related to home economics (salaries and wages) , a program for cars and motorbikes and a program with lots of funny things etc and greek music program after 0100 to 0600 . Top station of my father and me too. They were also connected to the TIF (the international fair) with pavilion on the main fair and "star word" (the fair for the children before the year change ) with live program from the fair There is a diverse advertising aired , These are the sponsors of the program producers. There are diverse super market chains. Surely an excellent station 9/10 934 Sto Kokino (in the Red ) This station is the localized program of the Red from Athens 105.5 and started from November 13 after the station pRockA (he heavy metal music station )given or sold the frequency to them . A station of a cultural program connected to the newspaper Avgi , which is also related to older called KKE Esoteriko on early 80s if I ak not wrong , which now is part of Syriza , the main opposition party for the moment and possible future governing party . I have heard a hourly news bulletin on 0600 LT with a second on 1400 or 1500 with short bulletins every hour till 2200 and news headlines every half hour politics programs , sports programs and sometimes relays from ERA . There are also alternative music programs and music or story programs sponsored by book publishers . A previous times person who had cooking program in the TV is now having his time slot here with a mix of cooking and travel program . All of their adverts are culture related with theatre plays in Athens , books etc Ertopen 103.3 and via the net You surely know ertopen so there is not so much reason to talk about them. Therefore i will stress only on the technical info of their transmission facilities in Thessaloniki . They air in Thessaloniki on 103.3 Mhz but also via their digital TV transmissions on ch 35 (ET3 and ertopen programs ), which is for Thessaloniki only , using low powers so that they can not reach Litohoro or even my home in Retziki ! (it can be heard only occasionally ) Their transmission power on 103.3 is rather low covering only 1 km of distance inside the city and i suspect that they transmit from their program production facilities in Angelaki street in which their signal is in its peak. Notice that their 'envy' Nerit has their program facilities in the same street on the start of the road , just 500 meters far ! Their political point is mostly rather left wing though their envy Nerit is supposed to be mostly rightwing I mostly hear and watch them via internet The above three stations are my most favourite Real FM 107.1 Real FM is the localized program of the station from Athens . the owner of the station is Nikos Hadji-nikolaou well known news persona from the 90s who now edits and publishes newspapers (Real a political related and Agora a market related ) several news sites (Enikos.gr including streaming political discussions real.gr ) and programs in TV (Ston eniko[= in singular but also presenters surname with an e- added as prefix ] aired every Monday in Star TV in the season of 14-15 very late nights ie after 2330 LT) The stations program is fulfilled with talk and politics program more than any other station in Greece . Even in the midnights there is a speaker with political talk with his audience. In their program schedule , there is a well known news-persona with rather ironic way of commenting called Tragas in stations morning program . There is also a program with satire at noon time , though their satire is quite bad to me. Also Hajinikolaou has a two hour program every work day. Last year also Liana Kanelli a well known member of the parliament , previously a journalist had a left wing political commentary program for two hours. There were two time zones with local program Many of their programs can be accessed later via their web page at real.gr I rarely listen to them this time though their program seems quite interesting for the sake of the above listed stations. It was my older favorite FM 100 This is the channel 1 of the municipality of Thesaloniki . The second channel is the 100.6 . On older times there was also a third program on 101 with foreign music with 1006 airing mostly classic and alternative music until the citizens changed the mayor abt 5 years ago if i am not wrong . Now 1006 is called as the "voice of the citizens" and Fm 100 keeps the freq as ID. FM 100 keeps a talk radio on its morning program with "Navsika 's island" airing each work day on 08-11 with lots of interesting news of the city . The news programs aired each top of hour contain two different newsletters aired every diferent hours the one is for local news including events atc and the other is for general news including politics and next hour with local news and so on. I found a very interesting program on 1600 on work days called 'ta leme' ie lets talk mostly with health related themes . every workday , the speaker invites a specialist and discuss health related topics , as far as i have hard their program The older times FM100 aired only greek music. After the new mayor ,the program changed radically and all kinds of music are now aired in this frequency Alpha 96.5 former Palmos As with most stations from Athens , the same happens with it . The station on older times called Sky then changed to Palmos and now is part of the Alpha network since about 6 months .The station as well with the others has its local productions and on the remain times the relay the program from Athens . Sparingly heard , I can only stress on their 'evolution' to trasmit online by video the program they air from radio! This is the idea i knew the older satellite times when RTL did the same several years ago. As far as i know Alpha Athens was part of the RTL network , but i m not 100% sure if RTL left the Greek company . Radio Thessaloniki 94.5 A station that I am not interested anymore , though is rated as most popular in Thesaloniki . One of the most important reasons is that their program is mainly adverts with less then normal for program. More than 25 minutes per hour of programming is adverts and annoys me very much. Together with Focus FM they are party-like (ie talking between friends ) and as i see they followed the idea of Focus people with a program related to work and salary oriented counselling topics and are aso heavily talk oriented . Most of their music is Greek . The stations owner was Fm radio amateur , ie ransmitter in FM much before Fm radio was commercialized , of the time of 80s CT International This station is not 100 % talk radio as most of its program consists of music . The station started on 80s during the start of the free commercial radio . The special of it is their airing of VOA Greek every half of the hour and a lengthy news bulletin on afternoons and some religious programs one of them produced from TWR (in greek )There are also mini nes bulletins (5 minutes )fro VoA in English. The former in head person was known to me from the embassy of USA in Thessaloniki on 80s before he started the station. Vima FM 92.2 Ath via Katerini This station is not clearly heard in Thesaloniki as it is aired from their cooped Katerini program facilites . Vima is also located from Athens and comes from a newspaper publisher , which is also member of the Digea network with shares in the Mega TV station. There is a news headlines every top of hour with bulletin on 1400 LT .and a funny program on 1500 which are the most interesting to listen . The station can be heard quite well in my house in the top of the mountain with strong signal One of their older funny mottos was ' you never know hat you listen here' The local program of 92.2 from Katrerini is against the right wing government's policies Skai 92;6 Ath via Katerini The station can be heard only in Litohoron as in Thesaloniki another station can be heard with Greek folk playlist. This is a relay from Athens but in THS in can listen to them via the net . It is part of the Skai network a right wing network that started in 90s as a news TV station but nowadays is a general program TV I seldom hear this station And last to mention NERIT 88, 90 , 92, 93.8 ,958 , 102 ie the national radio network . This is one of the stations i dont listen so i cant make any comments on it My radio related e-books https://www.scribd.com/collections/7127419/Mini-publications my radio shack: http://goo.gl/MHAHJ1 all my pages : http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak
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