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SEIZURE OF EQPT FROM TV STATION

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IN Jan 26 the Country State has seized the equipement of the local TVstation COSMOS TV due to QRM in the ch 48 used by Greek TV's relay of CNN though for very much times CNN was not relayed in this frequency ......Excpt this seizure has been made for SCAN TV

The local commecrial station Cosmos TV occupied 4 frequencies ('13', 48, 66, '70' see my related web page ) and statred programming since 1993and is one of the oldest commercial TV stations of Thessaloniki

However the State personell have by fault (?) switched off the electricity of ARGO TV the station of the municipality of Kalamaria part of the city of Thessaloniki . This caused a permanent electricity shortage for many other private radio and TV statios ( abt 10 TV strations) which were fed from the facilities of ARGO TV. The stations are still short of transmissions and are as folows:

The main excuse of the state is that it was (possibly) the reason the ukrainian airplane has dropped last Decemberdue to (possible) interference from the local TV stations , with most important excuse that the airplane of Macedonia Thessaloniki had not any radars though this was a complete lie , as our airport 2 days after the disaster has indicated the related map as scanned from the radars

As per comments of the R-TV station engineers of our city the Govt guys ignore that some nationwide commercial stations use very strong ( some are more than 30 kW) FM and UHF transmitters. All this transmisions facility is located less than 10 km far from the airport in the mountain of Hortiatis

All the TV stations as well as the radio stations including the nationwide commercial stations (Mega , Antenna , Channel 5, Sky) have received a preliminary approval for transmitting radio and TV programs over the airwaves

It has been also heard ( but unverified ) that later the State plans to cease transmissions from all other small TV stations of the subcapital . However this plan does not involve any cancel outs from the Greek capital Athens

For the moment all the stations owners have started a judicial strike against the bad behaviour of the Government

Except this also the transmission equipment of the local ( altrnative ) radio station Utopia has been seized. The staion has already made some movements with strikes and protests on the roads

My opinion

    1. The government shows a one-sided behaviur for chasing only the subscapitals TV staions . It could be more wise to chase the TVstations of Athens and also the stations for all Greece

    2. Their behaviour is contrary to the Constitution for the exchange of free speech. Except this not to act politically as they did this way

    3. They should not use the Radio TV comitee (ERS) to be a 'decorative' organization as it was so far, but ERS to systematicaly check all stations and approve only the most capables

    4. They act more strict the the Junta.Even Junta before 72 was not so strict as the Government since Junta had let many pirate stations exist

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