Greek Media

In this post I would like to give you some information about the Greek TV channels. I am sure that for some of you visiting greece soon would be interesting to know what you should expect from the Greek Media.

Well, Greek media and especially TV stations are very popular in Greece. I am sure that at any small shop selling cokes or chips you will see a tv screen being tuned in a TV frequency. Yes!
Greeks are TV-addicted.

There are public and private broadcasts. By public we refer to channels owned by the government while private are TV stations owned by media companies, publishers and other organizations. Note that the are not really controlled by the government but mostly managed. Off course the governments influence to the public channels is strong, but not much as in other countries.

The channels are:

• Mega Channel: http://www.megatv.com/ Quite popular for news and shows.
• Antenna Channel: http://www.antenna.gr/ A big competitor of the first one.
• Alpha TV: http://www.alphatv.gr/
• Star Channel: http://www.star.gr Mostly for American influenced entertainment. Plays mostly American Movies and TV productions.
• SKAI TV: http://www.skai.gr/ A decent TV station with clear focus on Global and Domestic News, Sports and Culture. There is also an available Live section on the website.
• ALTER TV: http://www.alter.gr/ Watch it if you want to learn how a typical Greek Station might look like....
  

All the mentioned channels are private ones and the public
channels are:

• ET1-First Public program
• NET-second Public program
• ET3- The public TV channel of North Greece with headquarters at Thessaloniki.
  

Their links are available by: http://www.ert.gr/en/ You will find a quite well developed English section, with frequent updates.

I was planning to write many things, but I will keep this post more informative and short. Thus whenever you are visiting Athens, Mykonos, Syros, Santorini, Tinos or any other Greek Island, and you want to use the available screen of your room, please watch one of the channels above.

There are so many things that you could write about the Greek Tv and I am leaving it for later...
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