Alexis Tsipras’ radical left-wing government Syriza has kept its promise: at 6.00 am on June 11th, ERT, the acronym of the Greek public service radio and television, returned to TV screens, exactly two years after its sudden closure in 2013 for economic reasons. Sources: lexpansion.lexpress.fr, fr.euronews.com et lemonde.fr
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On April 29th the Greek Parliament adopted a law re-instating the country’s public broadcaster ERT: on May 12th the government appointed its Board of Directors. Following a call for candidates, 153 people sent in their CV. Songwriter Dionysis Tsaknis was appointed ERT chairman and journalist Lambis Tagmatarhis, managing director. He held the same job at …
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“Rules for the Public Broadcasting Organization”, a bill legislating for the reopening of ERT, the Greek public broadcaster, was passed by the parliament in Athens on night of April 28th to 29th. Back in 2013, ERT’s sudden closure for economic reasons caused shock waves around the world. During his policy speech to the new Greek …
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The sudden closure in 2013 of the Greek public broadcaster ERT for economic reasons shocked many. On February 8th, during his policy speech to the new Greek parliament, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced legislation would be passed to reopen ERT, calling the closure “a crime against the Greeks and against democracy.” On the 27th the …
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i24news, the international news channel broadcast in French, English and Arabic continues to expand across Europe. Launched in July 2013 by Patrick Drahi, and already available with major operators in Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, and Africa, the channel has just signed a broadcasting agreement with Forthnet, owner of the …
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CIRCLE has announced this year’s 10 selected projects for its Women Doc Accelerator programme. CIRCLE is a unique international training programme for directors, producers and non-binaries working in documentaries and drama. Its Doc Accelerator programme, created in 2018, offers training to 10 women with documentary projects. The programme consists of three modules during which the …
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The 22nd Cyprus Film Days International Festival, the island’s largest film festival, will run from April 12th to 20th. This year’s international competition will have 11 feature films, 5 of which are Cypriot co-productions. Among them Sofia Exarchou’s Animal (Greece) about seasonal workers at an island resort preparing for the tourist season; Emilija Gasic’s 78 …
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