Closure of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

A political party leaders’ debate will be conducted on Wednesday 9 September at 22.00 and will be hosted by the national TV channel ERT.

The debate coordinator will be a journalist of ERT TV channel, while journalists of private TV channels will submit their questions.

It remained unclear on Saturday whether the former state broadcaster, ERT, would return to the airwaves on Monday, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had announced last week, amid objections to ERT?s new management.

Public broadcaster ERT will reopen in a week, two years after it was shut down, leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday.

Meeting with ERT chairman Dionysis Tsaknis and CEO Lambis Tagmatarchis, Tsipras urged the newly installed executives to work for a ?pluralist and independent? network.

Greek MPs have voted to reopen the state-owned, public radio and TV broadcaster ERT which was shut down in June 2013 amid harsh austerity measures.

The leftist government of PM Alexis Tsipras, elected in January, had vowed to end ERT's blackout that has gone on for nearly two years after budget restrictions forced the previous administration to close it down.