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Coronavirus Fears Cause Cancellation of Eurovision Song Contest for 2020

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon announcing the cancellation of this year's Eurovision Song Contest due to the coronavirus pandemic. ''It is with deep regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the Eurovision...

Greece Allowed to Participate in 2015 Eurovision Song Contest

Greece will be allowed to participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, as state broadcaster NERIT became an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Greece's participation in the 2015 competition was at stake since NERIT was not a...

Will Greece Participate in the Eurovision 2015 Song Contest?

Greece is unlikely to participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Austria, as the deadline for participants has expired. NERIT, the successor of Greece's public broadcaster ERT that was abruptly shut down by the Greek government in June 2013, has...

Antoniadou Journalists’ Union 1st Female President

Taking the helm during a tumultuous time when Greek newspapers are teetering and many journalists are working for reduced, or in some cases, no pay for long periods to time, Maria Antoniadou was elected President of the Greek Journalists’...

New Greek State TV Shows News

Two months after the government turned off the public television network and fired all 2,656 of its workers in an economy move, the interim station began airing news programs on Aug. 21 and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) stopped...

EBU to Cease Streaming Greece’s ERT

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said it will stop streaming former Greek public service broadcaster ERT from tomorrow, amid reports that its temporary replacement Greek Public Television (EDT) will broadcast news services this week. In a statement, the European public...

ERT Giving Way to NERIT

While former workers of the closed national broadcaster ERT continued to send out a pirate signal via satellite and the Internet and protest their firing, a bill making way for the replacement station, the New Hellenic Radio Internet and...

EBU Makes New Call for Athens to Reopen ERT

The European Broadcasting Union has called again on Greece to reopen its public broadcaster, ERT, while it attempts to overhaul the organization as daily Kathimerini reported. In a statement released as the EBU held its 70th general assembly in Malta,...

ERT Staff Won't Leave Building

Fired workers of the national broadcaster ERT, which was shut down on June 11 by the government, are still operating from their old headquarters via satellite and over the Internet, with the help of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)...

ERT Employees: We Won't Give Up

Famous Greek rock singer, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, will sing on the evening of June 21 in front of the building of ERT, participating in the events in support of the Greek Broadcasting Corporation. ERT employees answer to the agreement that the...