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The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction
AgoraAt the start of the process to auction four TV licenses in Athens last week, one of the people... of usual suspects did not seem to herald a new era for TV in Greece. Beyond that, the start of the auction... broadcasting had been an open wound since the first private TV stations went on air in the late 1980s
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House of cards (The rise and fall of Akis Tsochatzopoulos)
Agora, the Acropolis’s shadow virtually touched the luxury apartment the PASOK veteran purchased on Athens’ most... surprises life may throw at you. The apartment on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street was just one of many... gathered in the rain outside the luxury apartment. “Bring back our money,” they chanted. Since
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Coalition opens up new political front with tender for TV licenses
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 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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Final list of bidders confirmed ahead of contentious auction for TV permits
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe 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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New episode in Greek TV drama
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe 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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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
would unlock the pending tranche of 5.6 billion, plus 2 billion for the clearance of arrears. Tsipras... was marginally above target. A primary expenditure underspend of 1.82 billion helped the surplus. Apartment prices down Greek apartment prices fell by 5 percent in Q1 this year, compared to a 5.3 percent
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Mitsotakis defends his record against backdrop of tough migration package
PoliticsGreek Politicsare, we do not accept you”. Plevris followed up with a TV interview in which he said that non
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PM prepares to defend inflation fight against backdrop of political gridlock
PoliticsGreek Politics. Opinion polls Two new opinion polls released this week in Greece - by Opinion Poll for Action 24 TV
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Coalition to focus on constitutional reform after electoral law, as TV tender progresses
PoliticsGreek Politicsof 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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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsof 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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