The television and radio broadcasts
of ERT are indelibly etched into all Greeks' minds. This detailed
review of the history of the broadcaster by the Associated Press
explains why a country has stood up and resisted its sudden closure...
When Nazi troops marched into Greece's nearly deserted capital on 27
April 1941, radio announcer Kostas Stavropoulos of the Hellenic
Broadcasting Corporation announced the grim news. He urged his
countrymen and women not to listen to future Nazi radio transmissions
and signed off with the Greek national anthem.