Quoting “circumstances of urgent national need”, the management board of national broadcaster ERT has decided to reactivate its Medium Wave radio service both in Chania and throughout Greece. According to an announcement on the government website Diavgeia.gov.gr, the ERT management board has established a “strategic national plan for radio coverage in the Medium Wave band (AM), for use in cases of national emergency”, and approved a “Map of National Radio Coverage” which includes the transmitters at Chania (Souda), Rhodes, Megara (Attica), Malgara (Thessaloniki), Zakynthos, Bogiati/Agios Stefanos (Attica), Corfu, Tripoli and Komotini.
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Party leaders at pre-election debate
On Wednesday night (10th May), the leaders of the six political parties currently in government gathered at the headquarters of ERT in Agia Paraskevi in Athens to take part in what was billed as “The Leaders’ Debate”. It was the first to be held since 2015 and was treated as a news event of first importance. Reporters crowded around the entrance to the building to glean what comments they could from the arriving party heads, while inside the building a press room had been set up for international correspondents.
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