Greece

Dionysis Tsaknis, the chairman of ERT; the Greek Public Broadcaster, has resigned from his post following speculation of an argument with the newly appointed CEO Kostopoulos. Tsaknis was appointed to his post in May 2015, by the SYRIZA-led government. According to...

Employees at public broadcaster ERT will hold a series of work stoppages as of Wednesday to protest against chronic problems, such as new hirings in specific fields throughout the country, independence from digital network operator Digea and a new...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with newly appointed director Dionysis Tsaknis and CEO Lambis Tagmatarchis of national broadcaster ERT, which had been renamed NERIT by the previous government, and announced that it will reopen next Monday, May 25. Tsipras informed the two men...

The former employees of national broadcaster ERT took over the building of NERIT -- as it is called now -- since today is the day ERT is reinstated and they are getting their jobs back. The employees, who had been...

MPs from the newly elected Greek leftist led, SYRIZA – Independent Greeks (ANEL) coalition government have voted earlier today to reinstate the country’s public broadcaster, ERT, which was suddenly shut down almost two years ago, as part of the...

Greece's public broadcasting system ERT, funded with mandatory withdrawals from electric bill payments, will close and then reopen with a far smaller number of workers, the government said. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said that ERT, criticized for being overstaffed, was...

A sudden operation to evacuate the Greek National Broadcaster's (ERT) headquarters was carried out by Greek riot police Thursday morning in Athens, Greece. Greek riot police forces, accompanied by a public prosecutor, gathered around the ERT building in the Agia Paraskevi...

The Contemporary Musical Orchestra from Greece's Public Broadcaster ERT performed in the courtyard of Evangelismos Hospital in Athens on Monday evening as a gesture of gratitude for the hard work performed by the medical and paramedic staff of Greece's...

National broadcaster ERT on Thursday officially presented the song with which Greece will be represented in the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Lisbon. The song entitled "My Dream" by Yianna Terzi is written by her and the...

Rock superstars Foo Fighters, fronted by Dave Grohl of Nirvana fame, will play a rare concert at the iconic Odeon of Herodes Atticus at the foothill of the Athens Acropolis on July 10. The show will be televised to be...

According to statements on Wednesday in a press conference by ERT, Greece's national broadcaster, their 2017 entry for Greece in Eurovision has been decided. The Eurovision competition is set to take place in Kyiv and ERT has selected Dimitris Kontopolous...

Security checks have been heightened in the Aegean following reports from the Turkish media that fugitives from Turkey's armed forces were trying to reach the island of Symi in the wake of Friday's failed coup attempt. Greek state broadcaster,...

Dionysis Tsaknis, the president of the Greek public broadcaster ERT announced that Greece’s song for the 61st Eurovision Song Contest, in Stockholm will touch on the subjects of the refugee and financial crisis. In a way, he believes that...

Greece's public broadcaster ERT has sent out invitations to the candidates in main opposition New Democracy's leadership race, asking them to take part in a televised debate, according to announcements issued by some of the candidates on Wednesday. Aides of...

In an emotionally charged atmosphere, Greek national broadcaster ERT reopened on Thursday in the second anniversary of its closing down by the previous government as an austerity measure. As the channel aired its first broadcast after two years, employees who...