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off the first public television station in the European Union. The Greek, which has stopped broadcasting in Greece for urgent government decree.

Facing closure, workers have occupied the building and technicians have used the frequencies of two small chains to make a special program.

The analog signals of the three chains of ERT class=”caps”> have stopped issuing two hours ago the Greeks leaving no television for the next three months. Also the different public radio stations have stopped broadcasting.

Given this decision, more than 6,000 people gathered outside the headquarters of the corporation to defend his public television.

The government says the closure is responsible for the lack of transparency and corruption in Greece but everyone believes that the government has succumbed to the demands of the troika, which calls Athens the dismissal of 2,000 employees by the end of July and a total of 15,000 by the end of next year.

closure ends 75 years of history and leaves the road about 2,700 workers. The new television that the restructuring will leave with far fewer workers.

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