Third Programme (ERT)
| Broadcast area | Greece |
|---|---|
| Frequency | FM: 90.9, 95.6 & 107.7 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Contemporary hit radio, news, entertainment, speech, showbiz |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation |
| ERA 2 | |
| History | |
First air date | 19 September 1954 |
| Links | |
| Website | ertopen.com |
The third program is the third radio ERT. Vgike air on September 19, 1954, at the initiative of the author Dionysios Romas, two years after the founding of the Second Program. Then station has a neglected medium wave transmitter, and transmitting intra-daily schedule.
The actual story, however, began the dictatorship and then, when the reins, took the great composer Manos Hadjidakis. The station was the main program broadcasts classical music and enjoyed great prosperity period was headed by Manos Hadjidakis. With program raise interest from people of all ages, even children (with characteristic emission, "here Lilliput") the popularity of the Third Programme was launched vertically.
Addressing the classical music and various cultural activities, the Third Programme was the only radio of its kind in Greece, having very loyal audience.
On June 11, 2013 emits four hours in 24 hours in the single ERA and ERA Athens, and from 25 September of the same year emits again through ERT Open.
On March 10, 2014, the Third Programme reopened by the then Public Radio, and from May 4 operates from NERIT until today as the Third Programme of Neritan.