Greek state TV and radio stopped broadcasting ERT - Reuters

ATHENS, June 12 – RIA Novosti, Gennady Melnik. The Greek state TV and radio ERT by government decision stopped broadcasting – instead of a TV picture displays “No Signal.” At 23.15 local time (00.15 MSK) ceased broadcasting in Greece, before journalists reported in the latest issue of the news that the building TV riot police arrived.

against the closure of ERT were two of the three coalition parties and the opposition. Earlier Tuesday, a spokesman for the Greek government Simos Kedikoglu announced the closure of ERT, accusing the TV in the opacity and waste of public money. Kedikoglu said that instead of ERT will create “a modern, social – but not under state or party control – the organization”.

staff received adequate compensation of all employees ERT – 2,5 thousand people – fired. Those who wish to apply for and be able to stay in the new TV company. Instead of 300 million euros a year for the new organization will allocate 100 million. Employees in the new structure will be less.

Earlier

Kedikoglu repeatedly criticized gosteleradioveschanie over a strike during important state visit. He is accused of sabotaging the television, and trade unions of journalists is that they are in favor of the interests of small-scale harm the country’s image and tear coverage of important visits of heads of Greek and foreign governments. TV stations refused to cover the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Greece, Premier of Greece Antonis Samaras in Turkey and in China in protest against the “unacceptable government policy on public service broadcasting and the press”.

In March, the media reported that prosecutors will examine Greece’s publication of financial irregularities at the ERT, a leading inflated salaries and nepotism. Media claimed that managers overestimate the cost of producing television serials and programs are assigned to high-paying jobs for friends and relatives. TV presenters themselves refuted reports of high rates and relationships with manufacturers of software.