Television broadcasting in Greece began in 1966 and this was preceded in 1951 by statute 1963 permitting television broadcasting.
Alpha TV is a Greek free-to-air channel, being one of the biggest stations in Greece. The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on information. The studios are located near Athens. Alpha TV is owned by Alpha Satellite Television S.A. 100% shareholder of which is the Alpha Media Group Ltd. In Cyprus, private broadcaster Sigma TV used to broadcast a number of Alpha TV's programs. In the past, public service broadcaster CyBC used to broadcast Alpha TV programs. In 2015, Alpha TV Cyprus was founded and it broadcast the Alpha TV Programs and others of its own. Alpha Cyprus now is one of the highest-rated Cypriot channels.
Skai TV is a Greek free-to-air television network based in Piraeus. It is part of the Skai Group, one of the largest media groups in the country. It was relaunched in its present form on 1 April 2006 in the Athens metropolitan area, and gradually spread its coverage nationwide. Besides digital terrestrial transmission, it is available on the subscription-based encrypted services of Nova and Cosmote TV.
Channel 9 is a Greek television channel that broadcasts in the region of Attica. Despite being declared to be a news-based channel, the majority of the channel's programming since the early 2010s, consists of telemarketing.
Big Brother Greece is the Greek version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show premiered on 10 September 2001 on ANT1, the show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.
The Cleaner is an A&E television series starring Benjamin Bratt. It debuted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at 10:00 pm EST and the last episode aired on September 15, 2009, when the show was officially cancelled.
Skai Group is one of the largest private media groups in Greece owned by Eidiseis Dot Com Anonymi Radiotileoptiki-Emporiki Etairia Parohis Pliroforion-Enimerosis. It consists of one television station, three radio stations, one news web portal and one publishing house. The media group is connected with "I KATHIMERINI" S.A. which publishes the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
Babis Papadimitriou is a Greek journalist, news analyst, economist and commentator at Skai TV and Skai 100.3 radio station. He was elected a Greek MP at the last elections of 2019 with New Democracy. He is a lead economic and political analyst at Skai TV, a Greek broadcast channel. He is also a famous columnist at Kathimerini newspaper.
Aris Portosalte is a journalist and CEO of the Greek radio station Skai 100.3 and the TV channel Skai TV. He has been a journalist since 1984. In 1989, he started as a newspaper reporter. Then he continued as a radio producer for Skai 100.3. Since 1991, he presents news broadcasts on the radio where he has his own radio show. He also writes articles at the newspaper Kathimerini and he participates as a guest commenter at the news of Skai TV. Recently he became famous for his commentary on the Greek government-debt crisis. He was also journalist and coordinator of the famous TV show series of Skai TV 1821; the birth of a nation (2011).
Giannis Alafouzos is a Greek businessman, shipowner, and member of the Alafouzos family from Santorini.
The anti-austerity movement in Greece involves a series of demonstrations and general strikes that took place across the country. The events, which began on 5 May 2010, were provoked by plans to cut public spending and raise taxes as austerity measures in exchange for a €110 billion bail-out, aimed at solving the Greek government-debt crisis. Three people were killed on 5 May in one of the largest demonstrations in Greece since 1973.
Barracuda is an Australian drama miniseries, first broadcast on ABC-TV starting 10 July 2016. The series is based on Barracuda, the 2013 novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, which explores a brutal clash of cultures, dreams and expectations and the relentless demands that are placed upon young athletes, their families, friends, schools and coaches.
In the run up to the 2019 Greek legislative election, various organizations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece during the term of the 17th Hellenic Parliament. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election, held on 20 September 2015, to the day the next election was held, on 7 July 2019.
Aristeidis Alafouzos was a Greek shipowner, civil engineer and media mogul. In the media area he was best known for his ownership of the Kathimerini newspaper.
Sakis Tanimanidis is a Greek TV host, producer and entrepreneur. Tanimanidis became known in his native country as the host, creator, producer and director of the travel show World Party that aired on Alpha TV from 2014 to 2016. In 2017, he became a household name as the Greek host and co-producer of Survivor 2017(the adaptation of the international franchise for the Turkish and Greek television). He is also the owner of two restaurants and one travel agency in Greece.
The fourth season of the Greek Cypriot reality talent show The Voice of Greece premiered on October 3, 2017 on Skai TV. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series.
In the run-up to the next Greek legislative election, various organizations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece during the term of the 18th Hellenic Parliament. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election, to the present day.
Big Brother Greece 6 was the sixth season of the Greek reality television series Big Brother. The show returned after a nine-year hiatus and began airing on 29 August 2020 on Skai TV and ended after 113 days on 18 December 2020, nineteen years after the first season aired. It was the first season of Big Brother to air on Skai TV. The show also simulcast live in Cyprus on Sigma TV like in the last season.
The 2021 Greece wildfires are multiple wildfires burning in Greece since early August 2021, which have killed 3 people, injured at least 20 others and burned dozens of homes, after an historic heatwave for the country with the highest temperatures reaching 47.1 °C (116.8 °F). Authorities have evacuated several villages and towns. According to BBC News, Greece is experiencing the worst heatwave since 1987. These fires are the worst fires in Greece since the 2007 Greek forest fires which burnt more than double the area of the 2021 fires.
Big Brother Greece 7 is the seventh season of the Greek reality television series Big Brother. The show began airing on 29 August 2021 on Skai TV. It is the second season of Big Brother to air on Skai TV. The show also simulcast live in Cyprus on Sigma TV like in the last season.
