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Shadows Falling, Public Broadcasters Still Commanding
digital shadows Some media trends can only be appreciated in the long view. Regular bumps in audience flow - up or down - can appear rather insignificant, easily explained by the weather, for example, or survey sampling. As the media sector trades on immediacy, ever quickening, a long view lifts a deep shadow.

New stations mark the new year, more to follow, maybe
“put your helmet on”

Upheaval in recent years has dominated the Greek media sector. While difficulties remain there are a few rays of optimism as 2016 begins. Soon there could be TV licenses.

Athens station Best 92.6 returned to the airwaves this week. The alternative rock music station was quite popular until previous owner Liberis Publications closed in 2013. Under unique provisions in Greek law employees were able to take over the station, putting it on the air for a few weeks last year. Money always an issue, an arrangement for ad sales with Attica Media Group, owner of Rock FM, brightened the prospects.

The station returned to the air with David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” with only a few technical bobbles through the day, reported radiofono.gr (January 18). (See more about media in Greece here)

Also new to the Athens airwaves this week is Hellenic 93.2, a Greek music station, largely oldies, owned by Real Group. It replaces Orange 93.2, a top 40 station. The target audience for Hellenic 93.2 is folks over 40 years. It might have been on the air a few weeks earlier but for a strike by the technicians union.

In TV land, meanwhile, Greek media regulator ESR is moving forward on private sector broadcasting licenses, more or less absent for decades. The expected result, coming soon, is far fewer national channels, fewer than five said State Minister Nikos Pappas, quoted by greekreporter.com (January 12). “We do not want non-viable companies that rely on bank borrowing, which creates the opaque terms and exerts pressure on the political system, which in turn pressures the banks.”

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