ART (''Asti Radio Television'') is a Greek private

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

informative television station of regional scope, broadcasting in

Attica Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean ...

History

The station began with test broadcasts on February 14, 1990 under the name ''TeleCity'' and a month later with its full schedule. In 2001, it was renamed ''TeleAsty'' (Greek translation of ''TeleCity''). Almost from its inception until 2010, the channel illegally extended its reach nationwide, through repeaters, having an analog broadcast in many parts of Greece. In 2018, the channel broadcast digitally terrestrially in Cyprus as well, while in previous years it had a collaboration with the Cypriot channel ''Extra TV'' of

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. Later, the

Greek National Council for Radio and Television The Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) (Greek: Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης, ''Ethnikó Simvúlio Radhiotileórasis'', ''ESR'') is an independent supervisory and regulatory administrative autho ...

, the

Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission The Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission ( el, Εθνική Επιτροπή Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Ταχυδρομείων, ''Ethniki Epitropi Tilepikoinonion kai Tachydromeion'') or EETT is a Greek independent authori ...

, as well as the corresponding Cypriot authorities, stopped these broadcasts because the station had a license to broadcast only for Attica. In 2012, TeleAsty got its current name (ART). In 2013, the channel automatically acquired a nationwide license by law, a decision which the opposition parties at the time reacted to. Finally, ART covered the entire territory through

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from June 27, 2014.

Program

Includes informative shows, shows about the

Popular Orthodox Rally The Popular Orthodox Rally or People's Orthodox Alarm ( Greek: Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός, ''Laikós Orthódoxos Synagermós''), often abbreviated to LAOS (ΛΑ.Ο.Σ.) as a pun on the Greek word for ''people'', is a G ...

that supports the channel, documentaries and the music show ''Style GR'' which is one of the longest running shows on Greek television with video clips of Greek and foreign songs, both new and older from the decade of 1980s and 1990s. It also featured telemarketing.

Licenses

On September 10, 1993, the operation of the channel was legalized based on the 19230/E license of local scope in the region of Attica. However, the station has since its inception illegally extended its reach nationwide. Since the middle of 2013, it was considered as a nationwide station. In the competition for nationwide licenses in July 2016, ART TV, together with the then

Epsilon TV Epsilon TV or ETV, in el, Έψιλον Τηλεόραση (alternative romanization: Epsilon Tileorasi), is one of the three legal terrestrial TV channels of the region of Central Greece and Euboea Island, based in the city of Livadeia. Hist ...

(today's

Open TV Open TV, formerly Epsilontv, is a Greek free-to-air television station, based in Paiania, East Attica. History It belonged to Radio-television S.A. which was sold from Communist Party of Greece to the Cypriot offshore company A-Orizon Med ...

Makedonia TV Makedonia TV (Greek: Μακεδονία TV) is a Greek private national free-to-air television channel broadcasting from Marousi, Athens and earlier from Thessaloniki, the capital of Macedonia in Greece. It was founded in 1991 by a group of jour ...

, and

Mega Channel MEGA Channel, also known as MEGA TV or just MEGA, is a television network in Greece, that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It is the first and the oldest private television network in Greece. History Mega Channel (1989–2018) ...

, were excluded from the competition process for formal and financial reasons. On April 1, 2018, ART TV was finally obliged by the broadcasting law to broadcast only in Attica, Argosaronikos, Central and Southern Evia and a part of the Cyclades.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Asti Radio Television Greek-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 1990 Television networks in Greece 1990 establishments in Greece Television channels in Greece