{"id":6668,"date":"2013-06-12T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:57:54","slug":"voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-throughout-the-night-despite-ert-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-throughout-the-night-despite-ert-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Greece on shortwave throughout the night, despite ERT shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of protesters gathered outside ERT’s headquarters in Athens (Source: BBC News)<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I published several posts yesterday<\/a> as the story developed; I knew if ERT was being silenced, the Voice of Greece would as well. But that’s not what happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Voice of Greece went off the air, like its national radio and TV counterparts, well before the announced midnight deadline. But around 22:44 UTC, the VoG came back on the air<\/em>–at first with a few audio\/technical glitches–and broadcast ERT protest coverage throughout the night.<\/p>\n

This morning, I searched for news sources and could only find one–BBC News<\/a>–who noticed that the Greek broadcaster was live online and<\/em> on shortwave radio.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it hearing it live, you can listen to a short off-air recording<\/a>\u00a0of the moment the Voice of Greece was taken off the air, (on 15.65 MHz). \u00a0I believe this happened around 18:56 UTC (11 June 2013):
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