Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ERT) Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση
Type	Broadcast radio and television
Country	Greece
Availability	National; international
Launch date	1938 (radio) 1965 (television)
Past names	(1938-1970) EIR (Hellenic Radio Foundation) (1970-1987) EIRT (Hellenic Radio and Television Foundation)
Website	http://www.ert.gr/

Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Greek: Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση—Hellenic Radio [and] Television) is the Greek state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. It is a member of EBU. Around 88% of ERT's funding comes from television licence fees [1]. RCMP Emergency Response Team Operation This work is copyrighted. ... Terrestrial television (also known as over-the-air, OTA or broadcast television) was the traditional method of television broadcast signal delivery prior to the advent of cable and satellite television. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... <marquee bgcolor=white><text color=lime> sup --> The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as LUnion Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference... A television licence (or more correctly broadcast receiver licence, as it usually also pays for public radio) is an official licence required in many countries for all owners of television (and sometimes also radio) receivers. ...

History

ERT began broadcasting in 1938, initially limited to radio services from Athens. At that time the company was known as the EIR (Hellenic Radio Foundation). In the years of World War II, broadcasting stopped during the Nazi occupation of Greece. After World War II, broadcasting resumed and the radio services were expanded to three national radio services as well as international radio services for immigrant Greeks. EIR was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area    - City 38. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict... German soldiers raising the Reich War Flag over the Acropolis. ... <marquee bgcolor=white><text color=lime> sup --> The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as LUnion Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference...

Test television broadcasts began in 1965 and full TV service began in 1966. In 1970, the company was renamed EIRT (Hellenic Radio and Television Foundation). At that time there were only two TV services - ERT and a second one (ΥΕΝΕΔ/YENED) that was operated and controlled by the Greek Army. It was used as a propaganda medium by the military government of Greece until its fall in 1974. Quite remarkably, the station retained its name and military orientation until the early 1980s, when it was renamed to ERT2. On September 1, 1987, a third station was added - ERT3, based in Thessaloniki, with progammes focused on issues of Northern Greece. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The Hellenic Army, (Greek: &#917;&#955;&#955;&#951;&#957;&#953;&#954;&#972;&#962; &#931;&#964;&#961;&#940;&#964;&#959;&#962;) is the land force of Greece (The Hellenic Republic). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ET-3 or ERT 3 is the third channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... Coordinates 40°38′ N 22°57′ E Country Greece Periphery Central Macedonia Prefecture Thessaloniki [1] Population 607,987 source (2006) Metropolitan area population 2,395,220 Area 17. ...

During the first 20 years of TV services in Greece, ERT broadcasting was limited, starting at around 5 p.m. to between midnight and 2 a.m. Today, the three channels of ERT are known as ET1, NET and ET3, after another renaming and reshuffle of programme content in 1997, they now broadcast around the clock every day. ET1 is an entertainment channel whereas NET is focused on news services. ET3 is still focused on Northern Greece issues, although it broadcasts nationwide. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

ERT was a major national sponsor and the official broadcaster of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. It has been broadcasting the Olympic Games in Greece since 1968 when they broadcast the Mexico City Games. It also broadcasts IAAF games while it is shown on privately owned channels mainly in the United States. Today it broadcasts documentaries, some from the private sector, and a few animated shows. With the introduction of independent privately owned channels in Greece in the late 1980s, programme quality changed to a more commercial variety, in order to survive the fierce competition for ratings. This was a major shift in the network's principles that was dominated by wider variety, higher quality programmes including documentaries and World Cinema. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ... Note: To see more about the modern Olympic games see History of the Modern Olympics The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968. ... The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics (known in the US as track and field). It was founded in 1912 at its first Congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation. ... Animate Ikebukuro main store Animate (株式会社アニメイト) is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. ...

Logos

The current logo for ET1 is comprised of 23 dots (2 rows of 7 dots, 1 row of 5 dots and 1 row of 4 dots) with 'ET1' at the right, slightly equivalent to the original ET1 logo that was used from 1980s–1992. The #1 is smaller than ET. The current logo was introduced in autumn 2003. NET still retains their 1999 logo with a bold N coloured blue. The ET3 logo has "3" coloured in gold, alongside the letters ERT in blue. The ERT Sat logo features the word ERT with 'Sat' handwritten diagonally, with a curved lines on either side resembling a circle.

ERT-2 logo change, (1982) Image File history File links Ert-2b. ...	ET-2 logo change, late 1988 Image File history File links Et2b. ...	ET-2 changes name to NET, ET-1 logo change (1997) Image File history File links Et1net. ...	Current logo for ERT- Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation RCMP Emergency Response Team Operation This work is copyrighted. ...
Current logo for ET-1 Image File history File links Et1today. ...	Current logo for NET Image File history File links Net. ...	Current logo for ET-3 Image File history File links Ert3. ...	ERT Sat logo (2006) Image File history File links ERT_Sat. ...
ERT World logo Image File history File links ERT_World. ...

Timeline

1938 - The Hellenic Radio Institute, a predecessor of ERT, began broadcasting in the Greek language using radio. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Greek (, IPA: — Hellenic) has a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language within the Indo-European family. ...

1965 - Experimental TV broadcasts began. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

1966 - Full TV service began under the name EIRT (Ethnikon Idryma Radiofonias Tileoraseos - Εθνικόν Ίδρυμα Ραδιοφωνίας Τηλεοράσεως - National Radio and Television Foundation). It was the only national channel for Greece until the late 20th century. The first sports broadcast was that of the 1966 FIFA World Cup. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901&#8211;2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900&#8211;1999... Qualifying countries The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from July 11 to July 30. ...

1968 - The first Olympic Games broadcast from Mexico City. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

1970 - The Hellenic Armed Forces launched their own television channel under the name TED - ΤΕΔ (Tileorasis Enoplon Dynameon - Τηλεόρασις Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων - Armed Forces Television). 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

1972 - TED changed its name to YENED - ΥΕΝΕΔ (Ypiresia Enimeroseos Enoplon Dynameon - Υπηρεσία Ενημερώσεως Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων - Armed Forces Information Service) 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

1974 May: - EIRT changed its name to ERT (Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasis - Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόρασις - Hellenic Radio [and] Television). ERT broadcasts the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest to create a consistent visual identity. ...

1979 - The first colour broadcast using the French SECAM system . For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for sequential color with memory), is an analog color television system first used in France. ...

1982 - YENED became a public, non-militarized broadcasting corporation under the name ERT-2. In the new logo, the number "2" was lined with three stripes. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1982 - ERT-2 changed its logo again. The corporate name is inside a television screen. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1987 - ERT and ERT-2 merged into one corporation under the name ERT, with five radio stations and two television channels (ET1 and ET2). Another channel launched (ET3) in Salonika. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Late 1988 - ET2 changed its logo again. The new one resembled the French "Antenne-2" channel logo. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mid-1990s: Switch of all ET stations to PAL colour system. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Television encoding systems by nation PAL, short for phase-alternating line, phase alternation by line or phase alternation line, is a colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. ...

1994 ERT changed its logos again. The logo was coloured with a number on top. Orange for ET1, green for ET2, and pink for ET3. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

1997 ET2 changes its name to NET, (Nea Elliniki Tileorasi - Νέα Ελληνική Τηλεόραση - New Hellenic Television), with a focus on news. The logo was also changed to blue and is in use to this day. ET1 and ET3 are the only channels that are numbered in order, left. ET1 logo is boxed orange with 1 in the middle. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Late 1990s and early 2000s - ERT launched a satellite channel, ERT Sat, which began broadcasting programmes from Greece to other satellite systems all over Earth. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

2000 - NET became a general news and entertainment channel. ET1 changes its logo and becomes a channel for culture and education. The corporation's website, www.ert.gr was launched. This article is about the year 2000. ...

2001 February: ERT Sat launched on Dish Network, channel 603. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH). ...

2004 August: ERT was a Grand Sponsor of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games September: ERA-5 and ERA Spor launched on Dish Network, channels 722 and 723. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH). ...

2006 May: ERT hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time, because of Elena Paparizou's victory in the previous competition. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fifty-first Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on the 18 May 2006 (for the semi-final) and 20 May 2006 (for the final). ... Elena Paparizou (Greek: ) (born January 31, 1982) is a Greek singer, born and raised in Sweden. ...

Late November 2006: ERT Sat was renamed ERT World and programming was overhauled to better suit the omogeneia, its target audience. Programming is split among 3 zones- Europe/Africa, North America & Asia/Australia with each having its own localized schedule. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Greek diaspora is a term used to refer to the communities of Greeks living outside of the traditional Greek homeland, namely Greece, Cyprus, and parts of Albania, Turkey and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ...

Services

Radio

Under the name of ERA (separate company that broke apart from ERT in 1988), ERT broadcasts six national radio services. The first one, ERA NET, is primarily a news-oriented station. ERA2 is primarily a music station, while ERA3 is more of a classical music/arts & culture station. KOSMOS is primarily a world music station. ERA Spor (ERA4) is a sports-oriented station. Finally, FILIA is a multilingual station, broadcasting mostly in Athens and Corinth directed mostly towards immigrants. For regional audiences, ERT also has 19 regional stations. For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). ... Temple of Apollo at Corinth Corinth, or Korinth (&#922;&#972;&#961;&#953;&#957;&#952;&#959;&#962;) is a Greek city, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the original isthmus, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...

ERT also broadcasts the Voice of Greece (ERA 5) for an international audience, using shortwave. Under the name of the ERA International Network, Voice of Greece and some ERA domestic programmes are rebroadcast on AM and FM stations throughout the globe. In addition, the ERT regional station in Macedonia can also be heard on shortwave. In September 2004, ERA Spor & ERA 5 were added to Dish Network's lineup of Greek channels, giving viewers in North America access to 2 of Greece's public radio stations. Shortwave radio redirects here. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH). ...

Television

Today there are three nation-wide channels in Greece, two (ET1 & NET) are in the Radiomegaro in Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, the main ERT headquarters. The building's size is 600 m by 600 m. There is a large television facility northeast of Athens at Mesogeion Avenue. The third channel, ET3, broadcasts from Thessaloniki and is a regional channel that caters to Northern Greece. ET-1 or ERT 1 is the Primary channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... NET or New Hellenic Television is the Secondary channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... For other uses, see Agia Paraskevi (disambiguation). ... Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area    - City 38. ... ET-3 or ERT 3 is the third channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... Coordinates 40°38′ N 22°57′ E Country Greece Periphery Central Macedonia Prefecture Thessaloniki [1] Population 607,987 source (2006) Metropolitan area population 2,395,220 Area 17. ...

ERT also broadcasts an international channel, ERT World (formerly ERT Sat), which is only available to international audiences, outside of Greece. ERT World broadcasts as a subscription service or FTA to Europe, North America, Asia & Australia. ERT World (previously ERT Sat) is an internationally-broadcast Greek language channel run by Greeces national broadcaster, ERT. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama, documentaries, entertainment shows as well as sports coverage including live games from Greeces top soccer league- A Ethniki. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ...

Programming

For a list of programs, see List of programs broadcast by ERT The following is a list of programs broadcast by ERT (Elliniki Radiophonio Teleorassi) television stations. ...

Channels

• ET1 - broadcasting from Katehaki street in Athens, Greece
• NET - broadcast from Aghia Paraskevi in Athens, Greece
• ET3 - broadcasting from Thessaloniki, Greece
• ERT World - broadcasting from Aghia Paraskevi, mainly for outside Greece.

ET-1 or ERT 1 is the Primary channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... NET or New Hellenic Television is the Secondary channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... ET-3 or ERT 3 is the third channel from ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. ... ERT World (previously ERT Sat) is an internationally-broadcast Greek language channel run by Greeces national broadcaster, ERT. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama, documentaries, entertainment shows as well as sports coverage including live games from Greeces top soccer league- A Ethniki. ...

Reporters

• Lina Bethani
• Emma Papaemannouil
• Zois Kakkavas
• Anna Kandyla
• Alekos Markellou
• Zisis Moussis

See also

• List of Greek television channels
• List of radio stations in Greece

The following is a partial list of Greek language television channels which serves. ... Greece has well over 1,000 radio stations, most of them on the FM band, the AM band being almost entirely abandoned by everyone but the State-run media. ...

External links

• Official Site (Greek) (English)
• ET3 (Greek)
• Voice of Greece
• ERT Sat (Live Internet Feed)