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Interesting talk   stations in Thesaloniki
https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/fm-talk
As with every city, there are  talk radio stations with mostly  news and
information related  to the city    , the same happens with Thesaloniki  having
many radios stations . 
Here i will  describe  my most interesting  radio stations



Focus FM . 

This is  a very new (started March 2014 ) radio station located nearby the harbor
of Thessaloniki , taking the frequency of  Studio  3 , an old pal of me who aired
mostly  traditional songs.  The main persons of the new station come from ERA 
mainly Venieris , Triantafilidis and Velopoulos who were commenter of  ERA
Thessaloniki the  older times . The second person is now entering the  politics
with Syriza (the left wing party )  while Velopoulos  was for many years  member
of the parliament  of the right wing party New Democracy who then  changed into
another smaller right wind party and then left the politics for the sake of
selling international  politics  oriented  books  including many of his writings  .

The station is a very fast growing , which now has a share  of 2.8% , ie is in
the top 10 stations of the city in just 9 months. 
Their program  consists  except of  politics and commentaries  , with a very rich
 news headlines  bulletin every  top of  hour , even on early hours on nights, a
sports program  musical programs esp in afternoons and nights  a vintage musical
program with highlights of 80s  passing  midnight , a program related  to home
economics  (salaries and wages) ,  a  program for cars and motorbikes and a
program with lots of funny things etc and greek music program after 0100 to 0600
     . Top station of my father and me too.

They were also connected  to the TIF (the international  fair) with   pavilion 
on the main fair and "star word" (the fair for the  children before the year
change )  with live program from the fair 
There is a diverse  advertising aired , These are the sponsors of the program
producers. There are diverse super market chains. 
Surely  an excellent station  9/10


934 Sto Kokino (in the Red )

This station is the localized  program of the Red  from Athens 105.5 and started
from November 13 after the station pRockA (he heavy  metal music station )given
or sold the frequency  to them . A station of a cultural program connected  to
the newspaper Avgi , which is also related  to older called  KKE Esoteriko on
early 80s if  I ak not wrong ,  which now is  part of  Syriza , the main
opposition party  for the moment and possible  future governing party  . I have
heard  a hourly  news bulletin on 0600 LT with a second on 1400 or 1500 with 
short bulletins  every  hour till 2200 and news headlines  every  half hour 
politics  programs , sports programs and sometimes relays from  ERA  . There are
also alternative music programs and music or story programs sponsored by  book
publishers . A  previous times person who had cooking program in the TV  is now
having his time  slot here  with a mix of cooking and travel program . All of
their adverts  are culture related with theatre plays in Athens , books  etc

Ertopen 103.3 and via the net

You surely know ertopen so there is not so much reason to talk about them.
Therefore i will stress only on the technical info of their transmission
facilities  in Thessaloniki . They air in Thessaloniki  on 103.3 Mhz but also via
their digital  TV transmissions on ch 35  (ET3 and ertopen  programs ), which is
for Thessaloniki only , using low powers so that they can not reach Litohoro or
even my home in Retziki ! (it can be heard only occasionally )
Their transmission power  on 103.3 is rather low covering only 1 km of distance
inside the city and i suspect that they transmit from their program  production
facilities in Angelaki street in which  their signal is in its peak. 
Notice  that their 'envy'  Nerit   has their program facilities  in the same
street on the start of the road , just 500 meters far !
Their political point is mostly rather  left wing  though  their envy Nerit  is 
supposed to be mostly rightwing  
I mostly hear and watch  them  via internet

The above  three  stations are my most favourite


Real FM  107.1

Real FM is the localized  program of the station from Athens . the  owner of the
station is  Nikos Hadji-nikolaou well  known news persona from  the  90s who now
edits and publishes  newspapers (Real   a political  related and Agora a market 
related  ) several news sites (Enikos.gr including streaming political
discussions     real.gr   ) and programs in TV (Ston eniko[= in singular but also
presenter?s surname with an e- added as prefix ] aired every Monday in Star TV in
the season of 14-15  very late nights ie after 2330  LT)
The stations program is fulfilled with   talk and politics program more than any
other  station in Greece . Even in the midnights  there is a  speaker with
political talk with his audience. 
In their  program schedule , there is a well known  news-persona with rather
ironic way of  commenting called Tragas in stations morning program . There is
also  a program with satire  at  noon time  , though their satire is quite bad to
me. Also Hajinikolaou has a  two hour  program every work day. Last year also
Liana Kanelli a well known member of the parliament  , previously a journalist
had a left wing political  commentary  program  for  two hours. 
There were two  time zones with local program 
Many of their  programs   can be accessed later via their web page at real.gr 
I rarely  listen to them this time though their program seems  quite interesting
for the sake of the above listed stations. It was  my older favorite

FM 100

This is the channel 1  of the municipality of Thesaloniki . The second channel is
  the 100.6 . On older times there was  also a third program on 101  with foreign
music with  1006 airing mostly classic and alternative music  until the citizens
 changed the mayor abt  5 years ago if i am not wrong .   
Now 1006 is called  as the "voice of the citizens"   and Fm 100  keeps  the freq
as ID. 
FM 100  keeps a  talk radio on its morning program with "Navsika 's  island"
airing each work day on 08-11  with lots of interesting  news of  the city . The
news  programs  aired  each top of hour contain two  different newsletters  aired
every diferent  hours the one is for local news including  events atc and the
other is for general news  including politics and next hour with local news and
so on. 
I found a very interesting  program on 1600 on work days  called  'ta leme'  ie
lets talk mostly with health related  themes . every workday , the speaker
invites a specialist and discuss  health related topics , as far  as i have hard
their program 
The older times  FM100  aired only  greek music. After the  new mayor ,the
program changed radically and all kinds of music  are now aired in this frequency

Alpha 96.5 former Palmos 

As with most stations  from Athens , the same happens with it . The station  on
older times  called Sky  then  changed to Palmos and now is part of the Alpha
network since about  6 months .The station as well with the others   has its
local productions and on the remain times  the relay the program from Athens .
Sparingly  heard  , I can only stress on their 'evolution'  to trasmit online by
 video  the program they  air from radio! This is the idea i  knew the older
satellite  times when RTL  did the same several years ago. As far as i know 
Alpha  Athens was  part of the RTL network , but i m not 100% sure if RTL left
the Greek  company .

Radio Thessaloniki  94.5

A station that  I am not interested anymore , though is  rated as most popular 
in Thesaloniki . One of the most important reasons is that their program is
mainly adverts with less then normal for program.  More than 25 minutes per hour
of programming is adverts and annoys me very much. Together with Focus FM  they
are  party-like (ie talking between friends ) and as i  see they followed the 
idea of Focus people with a program related  to work and salary  oriented
counselling topics and are aso heavily  talk oriented . Most of their music  is
Greek . 
The stations owner was  Fm radio amateur , ie ransmitter in FM much before Fm
radio was commercialized , of the time of 80s 


CT International

This  station is not 100 %  talk radio  as most of its program  consists of music
.  The station  started on 80s during the start of the free commercial radio .
The special of it is their airing of VOA Greek every half of the hour and a
lengthy news bulletin on afternoons and some religious  programs one of them 
produced from TWR (in greek )There are also  mini nes bulletins (5 minutes )fro
VoA in English. 
The former in head person  was known  to me from the  embassy of USA in
Thessaloniki on 80s  before he started the station. 

Vima FM 92.2 Ath   via  Katerini

This station is not clearly heard  in Thesaloniki as it is aired  from their
cooped Katerini program facilites . Vima  is also located from Athens and comes
from a newspaper publisher , which is also member of the Digea network with
shares in the Mega TV  station. There is a news headlines  every  top of hour
with bulletin on 1400 LT .and a funny program on 1500 which are the most
interesting  to listen . The station can be heard  quite well in my house in the
top of the mountain with strong  signal 
One of their older funny mottos  was  ' you never know hat you listen  here' 
The local program of 92.2 from Katrerini is against the right wing  government's
policies  

Skai  92;6  Ath via  Katerini

The station can be heard only in Litohoron as in Thesaloniki  another station can
be heard  with Greek folk playlist. This is a relay from  Athens but  in THS in
can listen to them via the net . It is  part of  the Skai network  a right wing
network  that  started in 90s as   a news TV  station but nowadays is a general 
program TV I seldom hear this station



And last to mention 
NERIT  88, 90  , 92,  93.8 ,958 , 102  ie the national  radio network . 
This is one  of the stations i dont listen so i cant make any comments on it


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