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  1. The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction

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    At 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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  2. PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    when he claimed on TV that the Turkish vessel Oruc Reis had been able to carry out hydrocarbon

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  3. Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a preliminary inquiry into Pappas’s behaviour in connection to the 2016 tender for TV permits. Pappas had

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  4. 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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  5. Final list of bidders confirmed ahead of contentious auction for TV permits
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  6. New episode in Greek TV drama

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  7. 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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  8. Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  9. 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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  10. 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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