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The first broadcast came on New Year's Eve 1989. One of the concept executive producers has been Nico Mastorakis who brought with him several original (for the Greek viewers) ideas after his stay in the USA. Programs like Wheel of Fortune (Greek version), and Oi Men Kai Oi Den were immediately among the top 10 shows in Greece. Cartoons are offered in the morning. Most of them are shown in the Greek language. Today they are offered only on Weekend mornings, while news-magazine and lifestyle programs such as Studio me Thea are now shown on the weekends. Antenna also runs ANT1 Radio, which also broadcasts nationally, Rythmos 94,9 (a local pop music radio station in Athens) as well as international networks Antenna Satellite (North America), Antenna Pacific (Australia) and Antenna Europe (Europe, outside of the balkans) which broadcast the best of ANT1 programming to audiences abroad. ANT1 has also launched a digital channel- Antenna Gold, that airs programming from Antenna's programming library including many #1 hit shows. It airs in North America via Dish Network. It also owns a stake in Macedonia TV, a TV station with national coverage in Greece, based out of Thessaloniki, and ANT1 FM Thessaloniki, a radio station in Thessaloniki. Programs that were once shown on ANT1 were CBS Evening News from America. ANT1 Satellite News was also shown until the late 1990s. A 30-second commercial, which is shown only on ANT1, and sometimes Star Channel shows all the guide to Greece's beaches. Antenna TV studios are located in the Athens suburb of Maroussi. Its main Athens transmission tower is on Mount Hymettus. The station broadcasts terrestrially via a network of repeaters throughout all of Greece and Cyprus. |
