A group of students on Sunday interrupted the state television news, the government spokesman said.
“There has been an occupation at the state television channel NET and we are dealing with it,” government spokesman Elias Mossialos told AFP.
“They are students, this is not an issue related to the channel,” he said, without providing further detail.
The station’s 1900 GMT news was pulled off the air upon starting and a travel documentary was inserted instead.
In a similar incident at the state broadcaster in December 2008, youths halted the station’s evening news programme at the height of protests at a 15-year-old boy’s death by a policeman’s bullet.
The youths held up a banner reading “Stop watching and get out onto the streets” in a silent protest as the NET channel quickly cut away to commercials.
NET only owned up to the incident when its chairman Christos Panagopoulos made a special appearance on the news after the programme was restored to condemn the station’s “invasion”.
(source: AFP)
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