FM-talk stations of Thesaloniki

Interesting talk stations in Thessaloniki

including some stream

As with every city, there are talk radio stations with mostly news and information related to the city , to the community and the country , the same happens with m Thesaloniki having many interesting radios stations .

Here i will describe my most interesting radio stations. NOtice that the article has been writen last December.

Focus FM

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 commenters of ERA Thesaloniki 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 nespaper Avgi , which is also related to older called KKE Esoteriko (Inner Communist Party ) on early 80s as far as i can remember, which now is part of Syriza , the main opposition party until Feb 12 and now 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 Angelaki 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 right wing

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 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 eny other station in Greece . Even for the late nights there is a speaker with political phone ins.

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 satirical program at noons , though their satire is quite bad to me;Also Hajinikolaou has a two hour program every work day > last year also a well known member of the parliament , also a previously journalist had a left wing political commentary program for two hours.

There were two 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 quit 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 different 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 termed per audience Nr1 in Thesaloniki . One of the most important reasons is that their program is manly adverts then program. More than 25 minutes per hour of prorgraming is adverts and annoys me very much. together with Focus FM their talk is party-like (ie talking between friends ) and sas i see they followed the idea of Focus people with a program related to work and salary oriented counseling topics and are aso heavily talk oriented . Most of their music is Greek while Focus has its producer's music interest.

The station has started from the beginning of the free radio in Greece on 80s , though the main producer of it was active on 70s ie the time FM was only for radio amateurs !

City 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