{"id":6651,"date":"2013-06-11T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2013-06-11T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:46:38","slug":"greece-shuts-down-their-state-broadcasting-arm-ert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/greece-shuts-down-their-state-broadcasting-arm-ert\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece shuts down their state broadcasting arm, ERT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vog\"I cannot confirm whether this will have an impact on The Voice of Greece<\/a>, but I strongly suspect so<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We will know after midnight in Greece (21:00 UTC) today:<\/p>\n

(Source: BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\n

The Greek government has announced that it will shut down the radio and TV services of the state broadcaster ERT.<\/p>\n

A government spokesman said transmissions would cease early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 employees will be suspended until the company reopens “as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

[…]An engineer at the broadcaster’s multimedia department who gave his name as Yannis said: “The government announced that channels will shut down at midnight – after that the screens will go black.<\/p>\n

“According to the government, from tonight I will be unemployed. It is a complete shock. In four hours’ time I will not have a job.”<\/p>\n

ERT is funded by a direct payment by of 4.3 euros added monthly to electricity bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Mike and Andrea Borgnino<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n

Update (18:00 UTC):<\/strong> RT has a report worth checking out<\/a>. \u00a0Many other news sources are picking up the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot confirm whether this will have an impact on The Voice of Greece, but I strongly suspect so. 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 broadcaster ERT. A government spokesman […]<\/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":[56,3],"tags":[1974,1976,801,800,1975],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-ert-cuts","tag-ert-greece","tag-vog","tag-voice-of-greece","tag-voice-of-greece-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Jh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6668,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-throughout-the-night-despite-ert-shut-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":6651,"position":0},"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. 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