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| Country | Greece |
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| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Paiania,Greece |
| Programming | |
| Language | Greek |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV(downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| Sister channels | Plus TV |
| History | |
| Launched | 1990–2013 (as902 TV) 2013–2018 (as Epsilon TV) 2018–present (as Open TV) |
| Replaced | 902 TV (1990–2013) |
| Former names | Epsilon TV (2013–2018) |
| Links | |
| Website | Official Website |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digea | All over Greece at local frequencies |
| Streaming media | |
| Open TV | Live TV |
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Open TV, formerlyEpsilontv,[3] is a Greekfree-to-air television station, based inPaiania,East Attica.
It belonged to Radio-television S.A. which was sold fromCommunist Party of Greece to the Cypriotoffshore company A-Orizon Media Ltd. under contract came on 31 July 2013, and replaced the 902 channel. The operation began on 11 September 2013, at 00:10 with broadcastEntertainment Gossip News with presenter Maria Louisa Vourou.
The first station's newscast sent out the same day at 19:30 pm, with main presenter journalist George Karameros. Since October 2013 the channel has a full schedule, including Press News, information, entertainment, cultural and sports programs. George Tragas for a few months showed the programState of Siege and subsequentlyRestricted Area. Also presented programWithout Anesthetic andSniper. Since September 2014, the main news program has been presented by Lina Klitou. In 2017, the channel was sold toIvan Savvidis.[2][4] Filippos Vrionis was the former owner.[5]
The E Channel began broadcasting from its platform Digea on 11 September 2013. On 22 November 2013 the channel joined the Cable platformNova Greece at position 114 andNova Cyprus at position 613 and from 15 December 2014, and joined the Cable platform ofCosmote TV at position 111. On the afternoon of 8 March 2016 officially launched the E Channel to broadcast in high definition (HD). Also, old Epsilon TV has been working with GreekNew Epsilon TV,Extra Channel and CypriotPlus TV.[citation needed]
The Open TV program "Ευτυχείτε" (Eutixeite, lit. "happenings") and its host Katerina Kainourgiou were criticized due to her and the show's guests ridiculing South Korean pop singersOh Se-hun,Kang Daniel,V andJungkook who made it on a list of "the 100 most handsome faces of 2018".[6]
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