Second Programme

Second Programme

Broadcast area	Greece: FM, DAB Worldwide: Internet Radio
Frequency	Athens: 103.7 & 102.9 MHz Thessaloniki: 90 MHz all over Greece
Programming
Language	Greek
Format	Greek music & culture of the public broadcasting
Ownership
Owner	ERT
Sister stations	First Programme Third Programme ERA Sport
History
First air date	1952
Links
Website	Second Programme

Second Programme (Template:Lang-el, Deftero Programma) is the second public radio station of Greece's state broadcaster, ERT. The station consists of Greek music and culture broadcasts.

History

Founded on May 11, 1952 as a result of an attempt alternative music and entertainment program, supplementary, to the First Programme. Originally broadcast in 666 kilocycles and later at the 93.6 FM (where later emitted by Kosmos 93.6). The station program is focused at the outset on Greek music but also in theater performances, which are transmitted by the Second Programme. In 1987 he renamed ERA 2 to reset ten years later, in 1997, the old name.

The second program, due to the nation-wide, was the top in ratings musical ERT radio in the region. Station broadcastslive every year the Eurovision Song Contest, in cooperation with the ERT1, who passes it on television.

After ERT

On June 11, 2013, after the government's decision Samara for the closure of ERT, the Second Program stopped functioning. From then until November 7 of the same year the station broadcast 4 hours to 24 hours from a single network of HR operating redundant workers ERT. On Monday 16 December the same year the Second Programme reopened ERT Open.

A year later, Monday, December 15, 2014, the Second Program started operating under the New Greek Radio, Internet and TV, the new operator of Greece that existed.

Back to ERT

On April 28 of 2015 was passed by Parliament by law to reopen ERT, which took place on June 11, 2015, two years after the black ERT and its replacement of NERIT. Specifically, NERIT was closed and ERT reopened with all the radios including the Second Programme. So the day started the relaunch, the station transmits again the ERT and the HR.