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  1. Coalition opens up new political front with tender for TV licenses

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    the government to launch, and oversee, a tender for four national TV licenses. The legislation has been... owners of TV licenses. The opposition has accused the government of adopting an unconstitutional approach by passing responsibility for the issuing of TV licenses to State Minister Nikos Pappas

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  2. Final list of bidders confirmed ahead of contentious auction for TV permits
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    The final list of companies that will be competing for the four national TV licenses on the digital... of taxes and social security. The other seven bidders are existing TV stations Ant-1, Alpha, Star, Skai, E TV and two newcomers: One backed by construction firm owner Yiannis Kalogritsas and the other

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  3. New episode in Greek TV drama

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    The suspense continues. A high court will hear a case against the government over its TV licensing... the news media. The Council of State’s 16-9 decision on Tuesday to take the complaints of private TV... complicated: A bid winner dropped out and was replaced, and TV companies strafed the government and each

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  4. Coalition to focus on constitutional reform after electoral law, as TV tender progresses

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    of the upcoming bailout review. TV licenses Another issue that serves as a useful distraction for the government is the tender process for the four national TV broadcasting licenses, which entered its... and Mega TV were rejected, while the former leader of ultra-nationalist LAOS and owner of Art TV channel

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  5. Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
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    TV licence tender had fallen apart in “legal, political and moral” terms, with the conservatives... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt... as having close ties with some SYRIZA ministers, was one of the four successful bidders in the TV auction

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  6. Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
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    of State deemed that the recent tender leading to four bidders gaining TV licences and existing channels... the government could survive given that it had elevated the importance of the TV permits tender... and that efforts would continue to regulate the TV sector. When the decision was announced on Wednesday

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  7. First step in TV licensing process completed as controversy continues

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    The government has received 11 expressions of interest in the new TV broadcasting licenses it plans... in a previously murky field. Since private TV emerged in Greece in the late 1980s, there has been... is the main argument used by TV channels that currently have licenses in their attempt to invalidate

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  8. TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict

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    After suffering the blow of seeing its centrepiece legislation on TV licences being shot down... a new ESR board so it can launch a new tender for TV licences that will not be blocked... the government save some face and prove that it is determined to regulate the TV sector. “We’ll see now whether

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  9. Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
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    contents suggests that Samaras showed little interest in moulding this into a binding document

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  10. TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger

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    of the auction result is that Skai TV, with which the governing parties have had a long-running... Marinakis, a shipowner who is also chairman of Olympiakos football club, to the TV market is likely..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender

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