ERT B (formerly the second multiplexer of ERT Digital) is the second multiplexer of ERT. It started broadcasting in 2010. During 2010-2011, it broadcast its channels exclusively on the DVB-T / MPEG-4 system. In the beginning, it included only the then three main channels of ERT (ET1, NET and ET3) and the Parliament channel.
Due to a capacity problem, on April 27, 2011, the Parliament channel was moved from the first multiplexer to the second, to give space to the first to broadcast ERT HD, until June 11, 2013, when ERT was closed by a government decision.
As of June 11, 2015, when ERT reopened, it broadcasts only the following: four new public main channels (ERT1, ERT2, ERT3 and ERT HD) while the Parliament channel returned, respectively, from the second multiplexer to the first.
As of February 1, 2019, ERT B, covers 98% of the country's population, from 156 broadcasting centers, which were previously covered in many parts of the country through the 4th frequency of Digea, due to the absence of transponders. On February 9, 2019, ERT HD was renamed ERT Sports HD, which continued to be broadcast in High Definition 1080i resolution, and respectively, all sports events, of public television, were transferred to the station program.
Its channels are broadcast exclusively on MPEG-4, except for ERT1 HD, which on December 1, 2020, replaced ERT Sports, which was broadcast in High Definition 1080i resolution, while until the end of 2021, ERT will broadcast from 200 broadcasting centers.
It broadcasts only the three main public television stations of ERT S.A., the television station of the Hellenic Parliament, as well as five public radio stations, the worldwide Voice of Greece, Zeppelin 106.7 and the thematic web radios Deftero Laika, Deftero Paradosiaka, Trito Maestro and Kosmos Jazz.
The telecommunications and postal services market in Greece is regulated by the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).
Television broadcasting in Greece began in 1966, preceded in 1951 by statute 1963 permitting television broadcasting.
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, commonly shortened to ERT, is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece.
ERT World is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the corporation's international television service, and its programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama, documentaries, entertainment shows as well as sports coverage including live games from Greece's top football league, Super League Greece.
ERT1, is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the corporation's flagship television channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream and generalist programming, including news bulletins, talk shows, cultural shows, prime time drama, cinema and entertainment, and major breaking news, sports and special events.
ERT3 is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. It is an entertainment channel, and although it broadcasts nationwide, most of its content is aimed at Northern Greece. It mainly broadcasts from Thessaloniki with regional studios in various north cities, including Florina, Komotini, Alexandroupoli and on the islands of Paros, Lesbos (Mytilene) and Samos.
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called "multicasting".
ERT Sports was a Greek free-to-air television channel, owned by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, the state broadcaster of Greece. It was the first high-definition television channel in the country and started broadcasting on 27 April 2011 in several large cities such as Athens, Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli as ERT HD.
Cosmote TV is the corporate name for two pay television services in Greece, owned by Greek telecommunication operator OTE. The two services are as follows:
ERT A is the first multiplexer of ERT and started broadcasting in March 2006 by ERT Digital. The first digital terrestrial television of its kind in Greece started through this multiplexer. Today it covers 80% of the country's population.
New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television or NERIT (ΝΕΡΙΤ) was the state-owned public broadcaster for Greece from 4 May 2014 to 11 June 2015. Antonis Samaras' coalition government established NERIT to replace the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) in 2013: NERIT began broadcasting under their identity on 4 May 2014, replacing the transitional service Dimosia Tileorasi.
Public Television (DT) (originally as Greek Public Television (EDT)) was a temporary, state television broadcaster in Greece (up to the creation of the new public channels of NERIT). From 27 January 2014, the management of the DT has gone to the Board of NERIT, to operate the new, permanent broadcaster.
Second Programme is the second public radio station of Greece's state broadcaster, ERT. The station consists of Greek music and culture broadcasts.
102 FM is a radio station broadcasting on 102 MHz FM in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is owned by ERT3, a regional public television channel aimed at northern Greek audiences. It broadcasts news programs and talk shows.
The Hellenic Radio is the main public radio broadcaster in Greece. Founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), it broadcasts four domestic radio channels and the international shortwave radio channel Voice of Greece.
ERT2 is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the corporation's second television channel and it broadcasts documentaries, talkshows, current affairs programs, sporting events and children's shows.
95.8 FM is the second programme of the ERT3 radio service.
The Shutdown of ERT took place in Greece from June 11 until November 7, 2013. The ND/PASOK/DIMAR coalition government closed the then public broadcaster as part of its transformation to New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT). The decision was very controversial, and caused national and international outrage, and caused Democratic Left to leave the government. The majority of fired employees continued to broadcast from the headquarters of ERT, while after their expulsion from the Radiomegaron, a minority continued broadcasting through ΕRT Open while others took part in the new public broadcaster, NERIT.
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