Greek TV
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Television was born in Greece in 1966 one year before the 7 years military junta. There were only two channels,  ERT  and YENED
(the army forces channel). Most of the programs during this time until the seventies were imported mostly from the USA serials
like Peyton Place, Bonanza, Combat and others and also some UK series like The Avengers, The Man from Uncle, and the  Coronation
Street. It had a few hours of broadcasting and was started and finished with the national anthem


The first colour television broadcast in Greece started at the end of the seventies.In the beggining of the eighties Vangelis
composes the signal for the news of ET1.
During that period the private TV establishes in Greece with the channels of  Ant1  ,and  Mega. Later many other private Greek
TV stations  start to broadcast mostly in Athens and Thessalonica and later in the rest of Greece.

In recent years the private pay satelite channel nova has made an impact offering more then 100 tv stations worldwide among them
includes the most popular Greek channels ,international networks like CNN ,BBC world, Euronews and Eurosport ,RTL ,Vox ,ARD
ZDF ,National Geographic ,History Channel, Discovery ,24 hours film channels like TCM ,MGM and Filmnet 1,2 and 3 ,Super Sport with
5 sport channels. Other popular nationwide tv channels in Greece are Alter ,Alfa ,Star ,Macedonia TV and others.
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