{"id":6677,"date":"2013-06-14T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:22:14","slug":"christos-report-on-ert-shutdown-english-statement-from-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/christos-report-on-ert-shutdown-english-statement-from-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Christos&#8217; report on ERT shutdown &#038; English statement from broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6686\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/greece-ert-replacement-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6686\" class=\" wp-image-6686\" alt=\"GREECE-ECONOMY-MEDIA\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/greece-ert-replacement-protest-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/greece-ert-replacement-protest-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/greece-ert-replacement-protest-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/greece-ert-replacement-protest.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather outside the Greece&#8217;s public TV ERT headquarters in Athens on June 12, 2013, in support of the broadcaster&#8217;s staff and unions. AFP Photo (Source: RT)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SWLing Post reader, Christos, visited the protests at the ERT Radio House yesterday. \u00a0Here are his comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This evening, I visited the Radio House of ERT (Radiomegeron) in Aghia Paraskevi suburb of Athens. I estimate that about three thousand people had been gathered to protest against the government\u2019s decision of shutting down the radio and television channels. I cannot predict the reaction of authorities but I think that the popular support is limited.<\/p>\n<p>At this time I checked two transmissions. A television one, through EBU internet video stream:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.ebu.ch\/cms\/en\/sites\/ebu\/contents\/news\/2013\/06\/monitor-ert-online.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www3.ebu.ch\/cms\/en\/sites\/ebu\/contents\/news\/2013\/06\/monitor-ert-online.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a radio one, relayed by some local FM stations and two classic ERT frequencies: 9420 KHz on short waves from Avlis and 1260 KHz on medium waves from Rhodes island. I receive both with my eton E5 portable radio right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you for the report, Christos!<\/p>\n<p>Also,\u00a0Mauno Ritola recorded <a title=\"Download the recording\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ERTStatement\/ERT%20statement.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">this English statement<\/a> from the Voice of Greece (9,420 kHz) around 19:45 UTC yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/ERTStatement\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mauno believes they&#8217;ve been repeating this same statement in English and French throughout the day.\u00a0He mentioned that he can also hear their 1260 kHz station in Finland. He said, &#8220;in the early evening they had regional programming, but around midnight joined the SW feed, which apparently was TV audio [<a title=\"TV feed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zougla.gr\/livecamera\/article\/flash-camera-4\" target=\"_blank\">with this feed<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more updates on the ERT protests, please follow <a title=\"ERT Cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/ert-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, Christos, visited the protests at the ERT Radio House yesterday. \u00a0Here are his comments: This evening, I visited the Radio House of ERT (Radiomegeron) in Aghia Paraskevi suburb of Athens. I estimate that about three thousand people had been gathered to protest against the government\u2019s decision of shutting down the radio and [&hellip;]<\/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-6677","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":6708,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/more-ert-updates-from-athens\/","url_meta":{"origin":6677,"position":0},"title":"More ERT updates from Athens","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Christos, has been reporting regularly on the state of ERT broadcasting in defiance of a government shutdown. 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