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Television
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If a television is provided in your accommodation, or if you do not have a television but still feell the need to catch up with the latest events in the world; then you can visit the local kafeneio or cafeteria. Here there is usually a TV set provided; these days a large screen is showing satellite channels. Please bear in mind that Greece’s mountains interfere with reception so you may not be able to receive all the channels you want. There are numerous television stations in Greece many of which broadcast programmes in English without dubbing them. Apart from the state owned channels (ET1, ET2 and ET3), Greece’s major private television channels are Antenna, Mega Channel, Star Channel and Alpha. The movie and sports fans will be delighted to find that there are two major cable channels called Filmnet and Supersport that show non-dubbed foreign movies and all the major sport events 24 hours a day. These two channels will rarely be received by hotel or other accommodation television sets, but, as mentioned above, a number of cafeterias have large-screen TV sets that broadcast these cable channels.
News in English is broadcast on at least four stations: Antenna (38 & 45 UHF) broadcasts the CBS Evening News every morning at 06:50 and if you have Satellite reception, CNN, BBC World and Euronews broadcast throughout the day and night. In case you speak and understand Greek, you can watch the main news broadcast of the day at 20:00 on most of the major Greek channels.