Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a free-to-air television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ena (ένα) is the Greek number 1 (one), thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna (Αντέννα). It launched on 31 December 1989, and is owned by Antenna Group. ANT1 had been a popular network in Greece for years with its line up of soap series including dramas Lampsi and Kalimera Zoi.
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the second oldest tertiary education institution within Greece. Named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira, about 55 km east of Thessaloniki, it is the largest university in Greece and its campus covers 230,000 square metres in the centre of Thessaloniki, with additional educational and administrative facilities elsewhere.
The Hellinikon Olympic Complex is a closed, partially demolished sports complex, situated at Elliniko, a suburban town in the southern part of the Athens urban agglomeration, approximately 16 kilometres from the Olympic Village. It was built on the site of the former Hellinikon International Airport for the staging of the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Paralympics. It consists of five separate venues.
Ano Liosia Olympic Hall is a multi-purpose and multi-sport indoor arena that is located in Ano Liosia, in west section of Athens, Greece. The arena was mainly used to host various martial arts tournaments but from 2021 it is used by AEK B.C. for its home games in the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. The arena's seating capacity for sporting events is 8,327 in permanent tier seating and 9,327 with the collapsible tiers of seating.
The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens, sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools. It is named Metsovio(n) in honor of its benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tositsa, Michail Tositsas and Georgios Averoff, whose origin is from the town of Metsovo in Epirus.
Athens Kallithea Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Kallithea, a city and a suburb in Athens, Greece, which competes in the Super League, the top tier of the Greek football league system.
To Vima is a Greek weekly newspaper first published in 6 Febrouary 1922 as Elefthero Vima. Its founders were the politicians and diplomats Alexandros Karapanos, Georgios Roussos, Alexandros Diomidis, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Georgios Exidaris, Konstantinos Rentis and Dimitrios Lambrakis, who also took over its management, with Gerasimos Lykhnos as editor-in-chief.
Athens News was an English-language newspaper published in Greece. The paper had regular sections covering aspects of Greek news such as politics, social issues, business, arts & entertainment and sports, as well as international news. Features included analysis of domestic and foreign affairs by leading academics and experts, humour columns and reader contributions. During the dictatorship, Athens News was a leading voice against the junta, and its publisher Yannis Horn was jailed and threatened by the dictators.
4Ta Nea is a daily newspaper published in Athens. It was owned by Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), which also published the newspaper To Vima. The assets of DOL were acquired in 2017 by Alter Ego Media S.A.
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as KeravnosPiraeus, but existed unofficially since 1922. One year later the club was renamed to Young Boys Titan, after some players' secession that formed Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos. The club was renamed to Ethnikos on 23 December 1924, after it merged with Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos.
Asteras Tripolis Football Club, also known as Asteras AKTOR for commercial reasons, but commonly referred to as Asteras Tripolis, is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Tripoli in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Founded on 26 March 1931, their badge has Theodoros Kolokotronis on his horse and they have yellow and blue worn as home kit. Its home ground is the Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, a 7,442-capacity stadium in Tripoli.
The mass media in Greece refers to mass media outlets based in the Hellenic Republic. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues. The Constitution of Greece guarantees freedom of speech.
Dimitris Melissanidis is a Greek business shipping and oil tycoon, and one of the country's leading businessmen. Melissanidis is in the top ten rich list of Greek entrepreneurs ranking in 6th place. He is most known for his time as owner of Greek football team AEK Athens F.C. and owner of Greek oil company Aegean Oil.
The Port of Piraeus is the chief sea port of Piraeus, located on the Saronic Gulf on the western coasts of the Aegean Sea, the largest port in Greece and one of the largest in Europe.
The Lambrakis Press Group S.A. was a Greek media company.
National Glyptotheque is a sculpture museum located in Athens, Greece. It is an annex of the National Gallery of Greece. The museum was established in 2004 and became the first National Glyptotheque of Greece. It houses a permanent collection of Greek sculpture from the 19th and the 20th centuries and temporary exhibitions, mainly of sculpture. The museum is based in two buildings of the former royal stables and a surrounding area of 6,500 m2, situated at the "Alsos Stratou" in Goudi.
Evangelos (Vangelis) Marinakis, born 30 July 1967) is a Greek businessman and investor, the proprietor and principal shareholder of a number of companies operating in the shipping, media and football sectors. The son of shipowner and politician Miltiadis Marinakis, a native of Crete, he commenced his involvement in the Greek shipping industry in 2005 with the establishment of "Capital Maritime & Trading Corp". In 2010, he made his foray into the realm of professional football by acquiring the majority stake in Olympiacos and subsequently assuming the role of team president. In 2014, he assumed a position within the local government sector, having been elected as a municipal councillor of Piraeus with the "Πειραιάς Νικητής" party. He retained this position even after the 2019 municipal elections, having been re-elected. In 2017, he purchased the English historical team of Nottingham Forest F.C.. In 2016, he entered the Greek media sector with "Alter Ego Media S.A.", which the following year acquired one of the most historic and popular publishing companies in Greece, Lambrakis Press Group (DOL).
Marinakis has distinguished himself in two fields: shipping and football. In the field of shipping, he has achieved recognition from the British newspaper Lloyd's List, which has included him in its list of the 100 most influential personalities in world shipping since 2010. Currently, he ranks 23rd on this list. Additionally, he spearheaded the Olympiacos team to a European trophy the first and thus far the sole Greek team to achieve such a distinction.
The 2013–14 Football League is the second division of the Greek professional football system and the fourth season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. This is the first season after 1982–83 that the league has more than one groups. The groups are created based on geographical criteria.
One Channel is a Greek private television channel broadcasting from Athens.
The 2021–22 Super League 2, known as Super League 2 betsson for sponsorship reasons, is the third season of the Super League 2, the second-tier Greek professional league for association football clubs, since the restructuring of the Greek football league system.
