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| Country | Greece |
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| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Kifisias Avenue 10-12,Marousi,Athens, Greece |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Greek |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV(downscaled to16:9 aspect ratio576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Antenna TV S.M.S.A. (Media Capital Partners Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicle) 72,3%Antenna Group 25,4%MBC Group[1] 2,3%Eurobank Ergasias[2] |
| Sister channels | ANT1 Cyprus Makedonia TV |
| History | |
| Launched | 31 December 1989 |
| Links | |
| Website | ANT1 TV |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digea | All over Greece at local frequencies |
| Streaming media | |
| ANT1 Plus | watch.antennaplus.gr |
Antenna, better known asANT1, is afree-to-airtelevision network airing inGreece. The alternate spelling is wordplay inGreek;ena (ένα) is the Greek number1 (one), thusANT1 is pronounced the same asAntenna (Αντέννα). It launched on 31 December 1989,[3] and is owned byAntenna Group. ANT1 had been a popular network in Greece for years with its line up of soap series including dramasLampsi andKalimera Zoi. Antenna TV studios are located in theAthens suburb ofMarousi.
The first broadcast of the channel was on 31 December 1989. Programs that were once shown on ANT1 includeCBS Evening News from the U.S. ANT1 Satellite News was also shown until the late 1990s.
Antenna was founded byMinos Kyriakou and today is led byTheodore Kyriakou. He served as Executive Vice President of the ANT1 Group S.A. (from 1995) and as Chief Operating Officer (from September 1998) until his appointment in March 1999 as Chief Executive Officer, a position which he held until his appointment in January 2002 as Group Vice Chairman. Mr. Kyriakou has been a Director since September 1998.[4]
Since 1993, Antenna has broadcast its programming internationally for Greek-speaking audiences abroad. Initially, the broadcast was for a few hours each day but since 2000 has evolved into a full channel that operates twenty-four hours a day. ANT1 currently operates three television channels, via satellite, which vary according to the different geographical targets:
ANT1 began broadcasting in high definition (HD) by the evening of March 1, 2016. The program is transmitted as the normal broadcast and at the frequency of simple definition, but the parent (native HD) broadcast only emits what has been shot with this resolution.
In 2010,Antenna Group had launchedon-demand Internet media service Netwix,[5] available to viewers in Greece. It mainly included shortYouTube-style comedy videos created by famous Greek comedians. Netwix closed in 2023 due to the high costs of production and the low audience appeal.[6]
Since April 2022,Antenna Group has launched its own subscription-basedstreaming media,[7] which includes some original shows such as "Serres" and "I Gefyra (The Bridge)", along with many movies and foreign television series.
In July 2022, following theassassination of Shinzo Abe, a news segment on ANT1 TV Greece shared the same images ofHideo Kojima, identifying him as the alleged killer. ANT1 TV Greece took down the video on Friday,[when?] but the story caused major controversy as it became viral globally.[8][9][10][11] The mistake first started going viral after French far-right politician Damien Rieu tweeted pictures of Kojima in response to another politician's tweet about the assassination. The4chan post used a photo of Kojima and falsely labelled him as a "left-wing extremist" with a criminal record. In response, Hideo Kojima threatened to sue over false posts,[12][13] stating that he "strongly condemns the spread of fake news and rumours that convey false information".[14]
ANT1 has had various slogans over the years including:
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