{"id":13211,"date":"2015-05-12T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:01:05","slug":"ert-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/ert-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"ERT reopens under direction of Dionysis Tsaknis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6696\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ERT-HQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6696\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6696\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ERT-HQ.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo source: AP \/ Petros Giannakouris)\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ERT-HQ.jpg 468w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ERT-HQ-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ERT-HQ-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo source: AP \/ Petros Giannakouris)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ayar, confirms that ERT employees\u00a0did indeed returned to work yesterday after having been laid off nearly two years ago. Ayar shares this link to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greece.greekreporter.com\/2015\/05\/11\/national-broadcaster-ert-reopens-amid-disagreements\/\" target=\"_blank\">GreekReporter.com<\/a>\u00a0which has full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post contributor, Ayar, confirms that ERT employees\u00a0did indeed returned to work yesterday after having been laid off nearly two years ago. Ayar shares this link to\u00a0GreekReporter.com\u00a0which has full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[3831,2056,1974,3830,801,3683,800,1975],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ayar","tag-ert","tag-ert-cuts","tag-pospert","tag-vog","tag-vog-cuts","tag-voice-of-greece","tag-voice-of-greece-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3r5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13197,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/in-theory-ert-workers-go-back-to-work-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":13211,"position":0},"title":"In theory, ERT workers go back to work today","author":"Thomas","date":"May 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Ayar, who writes: According to many Greek news sources, the workers of ERT will go back to\u00a0work tomorrow to restart ERT and take over from NERIT, even though there\u00a0is no explicit permission from the government for them to do so! 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We will know after midnight in Greece (21:00 UTC) today: (Source: BBC News) The Greek government has announced that it will shut down the radio and TV services of the state\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"vog","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vog.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6668,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-throughout-the-night-despite-ert-shut-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":13211,"position":3},"title":"Voice of Greece on shortwave throughout the night, despite ERT shut down","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you listened to the Voice Of Greece in the wake of the Greek National TV & Radio (ERT) shut down last night, you were in for a bit of radio history. I published several posts yesterday as the story developed; I knew if ERT was being silenced, the Voice\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Thousands of protesters gathered outside ERT's headquarters in Athens (Source: BBC News)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreekProtestsBBCNews-300x168.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7073,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-ebu-to-discontinue-ert-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":13211,"position":4},"title":"The EBU to discontinue ERT broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The transition from ERT to\u00a0New Hellenic Radio is underway and the European Broadcasting Union will cease broadcasting ERT over the Internet and satellite. I've heard nothing regarding how this will affect the Voice of Greece, but I have certainly noted VoG's absence on 9,420 and 15,650 kHz again tonight. I'm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"GreekPublicTV","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GreekPublicTV-300x164.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6693,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/ert-now-broadcasting-on-several-medium-wave-frequencies\/","url_meta":{"origin":13211,"position":5},"title":"ERT now broadcasting on several medium wave frequencies","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been several days now since the Greek government tried to shut down Greek National TV and Radio broadcaster, ERT. In fact, ERT was only off the air for a few hours; they immediately set up a live Internet stream and restored shortwave service to the Voice of Greece. 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