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Greece Announces Five Finalists in TV Licenses Tender

Greece's independent regulator, the National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV), has announced five finalists for a tender for general content television broadcasting licenses. The five media companies that made it to the finals for a license are: Eidiseis Dot Com (SKAI) Nea Tileorasi...

The Resignation of Great Scientist Stamatios Krimigis Speaks Volumes of Greek Gov't Aims

When the Greek government announced the establishment of the Hellenic Space Agency as part of the equally new, Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, to most Greeks it sounded like a joke. An administration that has not solved...

World-renowned Greek Scientist Resigns from "Unreliable and Bureaucratic" Hellenic Space Agency

Dr. Stamatis Krimizis the renowned Greek scientist in space exploration, who returned to Greece to help his country, has announced he is quitting from the helm of the newly-established Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) citing bureaucratic and politically-motivated obstacles to...

'Film Friendly' Greece Moves to Cut Red Tape (video)

Greek ministers have presented a new bid to attract international film productions by funding incentives and cutting red tape. Digital Policy, Technologies and Media Minister Nikos Pappas stressed the audiovisual industry’s enormous potential, remarking that Greece has a magnificent natural...

Greece Issues Tender for Seven TV Licenses

Greece has officially announced the tender for the auctioning of seven nationwide, high-definition TV licenses of general content. The tender; in Greek and English, and the deadline for the submission of an application is January 8, 2018. According to the...

Ministry to Cut TV Ad Tax from 20 pct to 5 pct in April 2018

A special levy on TV advertisements will be lowered to five percent from 20 percent as of April 1, 2018, based on an amendment tabled by Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, on Friday. The amendment concerns advertisements played on television...

Buzzer Beating Three-pointer Gives Panathinaikos Euroleague Win over Fenerbahce

In a rematch of last year’s playoffs series, a thriller that went all the way down to the final buzzer, Nikos Pappas hit a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds on the clock to lift Panathinaikos to a thrilling 70-68 win...

Minister Nikos Pappas Boasts of Greek Success Story in CNN Interview (video)

Greece will exit from the supervision of its creditors and manage to stand on her own two feet by August 2018, said Nikos Pappas, minister of Digital Telecommunications and Information Policy. Speaking from Washington DC to CNN on Thursday, Pappas,...

Greek State to Subsidise Internet Access to First-Year Students

The Greek government is planning to subsidize internet access for about 72,000 students accepted into the country’s universities and technical colleges (TEI) this year. The project was presented during a joint press briefing by Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas and...

SYRIZA Accused of Nepotism after Minister’s Father Gets Public Office

Opposition parties reacted with sarcastic venom to the announcement that the economist Stelios Pappas, father of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, has been appointed as the new president of the recently re-nationalised Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization (OASTH). SYRIZA, which came...