PIeria TV

 

Pieria  TV

A   history (1993)

From the only left sticker !!! This was the monitor used in the channel, and then
was lost, it was given to someone for experiments who never retuned it back later.

 

Pieria TV has started by chance after a friend and TV mate in Langadas, living and woerking in a place 20 km north of Thessaloniki, tried to extend his opportunities in TV narrow casting in Katerini on early 1993 pos. around March . Katerini is located 80 km  SSW of Thessaloniki

I previously already had a  cooperation with this man for less than1 year in Langadas by providing him  the necessary transmission equipment.  

 

the leeft camera with the label of the TV channel

Eugene the head person of a local radio station and him (Miltos)Radio Faros 92.3 MHz tested a 5 W transmitter in a new built building quite close to the radio station  inside the city.  The results were totally disappointing. Given that all TV systems   use a pre-amplifier, the 5 W signal was quite enough to overload the home antenna preamplifiers and causing a total wipe out in the UHF band The man was ready to stop his tests and return to his main business, a local radio station.

ON the start   we used a ready system linking on VHF I, but soon it was  replaced it with a UHF link system The technician on the second link system was a friend and technician of the person from Langadas  Later i heard that he died from cancer - after 2000- 

Fortunately, for all, an older friend and solar systems' competitor located in  the main street to Salonica offered us his facilities of his factory to install the relay system

The system was run in the facilities of the bus routes building  in the opposite of the town. This relay link system had a visual distance of around 2 KM 

 

This was the area of Katerini. Signal diastance was around 25 km far . 
The transmission point was near the blue point in the  right above the circle

The TV channels offices consisted of two rooms of 25 sqm each , one of them separated by a wooden wall. The front part of the room was used for the production, while the rear part was the studio. It was used for both live and recorded programming.

We commenced programming on this narrow casting station on ca March 1993.  The project stopped on October 1993 due to less interest from the other part i.e. Eugene. A lawyer was also used to legislate the whole process but due to the stop his interest he was also withdrawn from the project, It should be also noted that 3 years before this project I have applied for a TV licence and was registered #5 in the ministry. 

Our programming consisted with
-         Relays from some sat TV programs on the start little later replaced with computer generated  adverts, in iteration
-         Movies in general
-         News, by our journalist team

-         Interviews or debates produced in our studios. Mrs Glykatzi Averler was  our most important guest among the interviewees.

         Special local sports events

 
Stations personnel  was about 10-12  persons  :
-         2 cameramen
-         2 journalists , mainly with local  news.  Eugene was the head of  news.

-         1 electronic engineer

-         2-3  system technicians including me

-         Newscaster.
 
 The studio system included:
-         Several  video players
-         One of my satellite TV antennas with  horizon mount
-         One S VHS  video camera
-         One multichannel video mixer /console  with digital effects
-         One push button and variable resistor video mixer
-         An Amiga computer with Genlock for mixing with video
-         Several TV  monitors built into an angled metallic support system.
-         One VHF-I  antenna  as link antenna and RG type cable  (on the start season)
-         One dish antenna  for the UHF , originally a bulk made in lathe for advertising use of the sat dish company
-         0.5 W transmitter on extended UHF band
 
The relay system included:
-         A relay transceiver   
-         Heliax cables
-         Lazy H  type TV transmission antenna
-         UHF+  transmitter
 

Channels used:

CH 24 in the start of the programming

CH 43 after   QRM started on channel 24 (a nationwide l TV channel )
 
 
After the channel dissolved the equipment has been either sold lost or stolen