{"id":52347,"date":"2022-04-02T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52347"},"modified":"2022-04-02T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:21:57","slug":"voice-of-greece-closure-delayed-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/voice-of-greece-closure-delayed-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Greece closure delayed two months"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Greek City Times via Alokesh Gupta)<\/p>\n

Voice of Greece granted a reprieve \u2013 still broadcasting for 2 more months (Greek City Times)<\/a><\/h1>\n

The closure of the analog broadcast of the Voice of Greece has been delayed, even temporarily. With a decision taken last Wednesday and signed by ERT CEO George Gabritsos, the public radio and television announced that at the request of the Ministry of Defense, the Avlida shortwave broadcast centre will remain active until May 31, when re-evaluating the conditions for further continuation or not of its operation.<\/p>\n

In an earlier decision, ERT had stated that its broadcast on shortwave would end yesterday, March 31, and had addressed the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense \u201cto decide whether they want the continuation of the shortwave broadcasts, as well as the acquisition of ownership and the operation of the shortwave operation at their own risk \u201c.<\/p>\n

Voice of Greece
\nShortwave Frequencies<\/p>\n

9420 kHz for Europe & North America,<\/p>\n

11645 kHz for Central & South Africa,<\/p>\n

9935 kHz for Europe Central America.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at the Greek City Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Greek City Times via Alokesh Gupta) Voice of Greece granted a reprieve \u2013 still broadcasting for 2 more months (Greek City Times) The closure of the analog broadcast of the Voice of Greece has been delayed, even temporarily. With a decision taken last Wednesday and signed by ERT CEO George Gabritsos, the public radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[960,3,43],"tags":[801,800,1975],"class_list":["post-52347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-vog","tag-voice-of-greece","tag-voice-of-greece-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dCj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10477,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/voa-greek-language-service-to-end-tuesday-august-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":52347,"position":0},"title":"VOA Greek language service to end Tuesday, August 12","author":"Thomas","date":"August 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to TheGreekRadio.com for commenting with details about the August 12 closure of VOA's Greek language service and allowing the following article to be republished on the SWLing Post: End of an era: The Greek Service of the Voice of America ceases operations The end of operation of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "International Broadcasting"","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"voa-greek-service","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/voa-greek-service.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51845,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/voice-of-greece-faces-an-uncertain-future-possible-closure\/","url_meta":{"origin":52347,"position":1},"title":"Voice of Greece faces an uncertain future & possible closure","author":"Thomas","date":"February 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bulgarian DX blog posted the the following item: GREECE Possible end of an ERT Voice of Greece transmitting on shortwave 9420 kHz via Avlis. 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