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

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  2. Uncomfortable questions regarding TV auction mount for coalition

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    regarding the recent auction for TV licences, which the coalition has held up as a shining example... against the tender by the existing TV channels, most of whom failed to win permits in the recent... to rubber stamp the tender. A second controversial aspect to the TV permits auction has emerged this week

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  3. TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  4. Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
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    Society

    TV broadcast licenses. While the relationship between money, power and information is the subject... of corruption”, was a flagship campaign pledge for SYRIZA. Private TV channels have been on air in Greece since..., a government contractor allied to SYRIZA, failed to come up with the funds for the license after

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  5. TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  6. After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with the representatives of the four firms that were successful in last week’s TV licence auction... Nikos Pappas, who has overseen the whole process of regulating the TV market. It is clear, however... disposal. The prime minister, however, will want to maximise the political benefit from the TV tender

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  7. After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in the wake of the failed TV permit tender that he oversaw. It was reported recently that Pappas travelled... that the government will launch a new effort to regulate the TV sector. In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper... licencing procedure. In a TV interview in Greece on Tuesday night, Pappas welcomed New Democracy proposing

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  8. Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020

    Newsletters

    has chosen a figure that is not from “New Democracy’s political family,” as he told TV viewers... was 2.82 billion, municipalities spent 1.12 billion, social funds 166 million and 859 billion

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  9. Government meets resistance on TV permits and revenues chief
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    an extension for the payment of a TV advertisment levy and the other for the review of a fine... abstained. Greece's digital network operator, Digea, which was formed by private TV stations, has also

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  10. SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . The dispute over the TV licenses has been brewing for some time as the opposition suspects SYRIZA is trying to favour friendly media groups. The coalition counters that previous governments have allowed TV

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