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[HCDX] Interesting talk stations in Thesaloniki (with some stream too))
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Interesting talk stations in Thesaloniki
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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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