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 started March 2014 located nearby the
harbor of main 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
add: NOt on 2020 for the first two but onl for ERT who retrned back to the main freq
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
This
station is not clearly heard in Thesaloniki as it is aired from
their cooped Katerini program facilities . 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 .Otherwise i can lsten to them via the net
One of their older funny mottos was ' you never know what 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 playist. This is a relay from Athens but in THS in can listen to them only 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
This is one of the stations i dont listen so i cant make any comments on it
