Loading AI tools
Greek television channel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open TV, formerly Epsilontv,[3] is a Greek free-to-air television station, based in Paiania, East Attica.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2018) |
Country | Greece |
---|---|
Broadcast area | National |
Headquarters | Paiania, Greece |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Greek |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner |
|
Sister channels | Plus TV |
History | |
Launched | 1990–2013 (as 902 TV) 2013–2018 (as Epsilon TV) 2018–present (as Open TV) |
Replaced | 902 TV (1990–2013) |
Former names | Epsilon TV (2013–2018) |
Links | |
Website | Official Website |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digea | All over Greece at local frequencies |
Streaming media | |
Open TV | Live TV |
It belonged to Radio-television S.A. which was sold from Communist Party of Greece to the Cypriot offshore company A-Orizon Media Ltd. under contract came on 31 July 2013, and replaced the 902 channel. The operation began on 11 September 2013, at 00:10 with broadcast Entertainment Gossip News with presenter Maria Louisa Vourou.
The first station's newscast sent out the same day at 19:30 pm, with main presenter journalist George Karameros. Since October 2013 the channel has a full schedule, including Press News, information, entertainment, cultural and sports programs. George Tragas for a few months showed the program State of Siege and subsequently Restricted Area. Also presented program Without Anesthetic and Sniper. Since September 2014, the main news program has been presented by Lina Klitou. In 2017, the channel was sold to Ivan Savvidis.[2][4] Filippos Vrionis was the former owner.[5]
The E Channel began broadcasting from its platform Digea on 11 September 2013. On 22 November 2013 the channel joined the Cable platform Nova Greece at position 114 and Nova Cyprus at position 613 and from 15 December 2014, and joined the Cable platform of Cosmote TV at position 111. On the afternoon of 8 March 2016 officially launched the E Channel to broadcast in high definition (HD). Also, old Epsilon TV has been working with Greek New Epsilon TV, Extra Channel and Cypriot Plus TV.[citation needed]
The Open TV program "Ευτυχείτε" (Eutixeite, lit. "happenings") and its host Katerina Kainourgiou were criticized due to her and the show's guests ridiculing South Korean pop singers Oh Se-hun, Kang Daniel, V and Jungkook who made it on a list of "the 100 most handsome faces of 2018".[6]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.