Athens 9.84 FM radio of the City The Greek capital has the most successful European example of issuer
managed by the City
in an old gas factory on the way to Piraeus here studies of a station in the country in 1987 inaugurated the season of free radio.
And today it still provides valuable information Two networks, one in greek, the other in 15 languages \u200b\u200b(and half an hour every day in Italian). The Athens Municipal Radio
is the largest in Europe owned by a municipality, and has managed to survive despite the crisis in Greece. Of course, these days has suffered the closure of its international channel in FM, for political reasons (in Athens there are local elections) rather than a controversy about the frequency occupied by the multilingual station since the 2004 Olympics. But - if for the moment the international broadcasts should continue only on the Internet - the canal in Greek Athina 9.84 (sic) has retained its historic FM (on air on 98.3 MHz ed.). On the other hand, the station represents an important source of information for a city that contains almost half the population of the country.
In Gazi Technopolis cultural center - the old price of gas on the way to Piraeus, a short walk from Ceramics, one of the city's most important archaeological sites - the radio occupies the iron structure of an old gasworks. Thus studies and offices affected by the issuer of a typical circular pattern that leaves space in the center, a large auditorium, site of numerous events that radio works. There is also a historical collection on the Radio in Greece, where we learn that the first listeners - in the absence of a national station, founded in 1938 - followed by Italy programs.
is a first sign of a link with our country that has never been absent in the Greek world of radio. There are many programs for this conversation, commenting on city life and the whole country that make Athina 98.4 broadcaster primarily spoken. Keep the radio on, to hear, even in Athens ago part of everyday life so that the writer Petros Markaris could note that in the capital of Greece, "you might see anything. To be sure, however, you'll never be a taxi with the radio off. "
Radio City flared in 1987 when the City actually opened the era of free channels in Greece. First, rather than free radio, you had to talk about pirate radio, a phenomenon far from over in Greece. The foundation of the issuer - now entrusted to a company-owned town - the mayor's initiative was Miltiades Evert in the two years of his term, the idea was to provide the City a media-independent state radio. "The public media - said the current director Yannis Politis - backed by taxpayer money, they should offer a service to society, the private media, due to competition imposed by the market, can not easily produce."
Politically, the initiative had an impact, considering the balance period of Greece. But the radio also brought about an openness to the local FM radio (even commercial) that makes today's radio landscape greek very similar to Italian, except for this: the local radio. In Italy, in fact, the legislative decree 177/2005 prevent the public being entitled broadcasting concessions. The local radio in Athens, putting into practice in a middle ground between the national public broadcasting and private, has created more than a format that allowed new proposals: in 2004, the eve of the Olympics, a new network initiated Athens International Radio lingual program dedicated to tourists and foreign residents and the many Greeks who know a foreign language.
Athens becomes the only metropolis in the world to own a radio station which broadcasts in 14 languages: Arabic, Albanian, Rumanian, Polish, Russian, Tagalog, Bulgarian, Chinese ... Languages \u200b\u200bmore recent immigration and countries closer through which stress the universal value of the ideas that were from Athens widely used since ancient times. Now the silence imposed on the FM frequency is a sign of the difficulties of the moment. Protests were raised by many parties and also the Italian Ambassador expressed the hope of overcoming bureaucratic problems at the origin of the sudden closure.
Certainly not enough to go on the Internet. The FM is irreplaceable in the mind of the Greeks: during the military dictatorship (1967-1974) the international radio played an important role indeed in the information, BBC and Deutsche Welle found a large audience and even today the Greek editions of their news programs are retransmitted successfully by many local stations due to familiarity from the audience. Oriana Fallaci in his "The Man" recalls the attempt instead of Alexander Panagulis to "obtain from the Italian radio space necessary to provide a two-week schedule that was captured in Greece." He remained a dream.
Louis Cobisi - on the pages of Agora, September 26, 2010 Future ---
Multilingualism - The Attica speaks Italian The Italians are about 10,000 living in Attica - says Tassos Mavris, curator of the Italian program - but 150,000 Greeks have graduated in Italy and half a million people attended at least one year for the University to you. " The Italian program of Athina 104.4 consists of a topical 30-minute drive (at 15.30 from Monday to Friday) with a weekly one-hour Sunday at 20. The program, also picked up by the World Wide Web Virtual Italradio (a system that offers international broadcasts on the Internet in our language), joins the program listings in other areas of the Italian: Albania, Serbia, Romania, Turkey. (L. Cob.)
