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ERT resumed broadcasting at 6 a.m. on Thursday with the Greek national anthem while the old logo was restored to television monitors. The old ERT logo was restored to monitors.

The opening is marked with a concert in the forecourt of the broadcasting building on Mesogeion Street at 8 p.m. on Thursday by the ERT musical ensembles with a number of artists and musicians.

Greece?s revived public broadcaster ERT will begin TV and radio programs on Wednesday.

ERT was shut down in June 2012 and replaced with the smaller NERIT by the previous government but the SYRIZA-led coalition has decided to switch to the previous format.

The new state radio and television broadcaster (ERT) will reopen by June 11 said the channel’s president Dionysis Tsaknis. Meeting with the Greek Federation of Journalists, he said that events are being organized to celebrate the occasion. He said that the regional public channels will also reopen.

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.

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.

The Greek Parliament?s public administration committee will on Tuesday begin discussing the draft legislation the government submitted to the House this week foreseeing the reopening of public broadcaster ERT.

Almost 3,000 employees lost their jobs when ERT was shut down in June 2013.

The government on Wednesday submitted to Parliament a bill that paves the way for public broadcaster ERT, which was shut down overnight in June 2013, to reopen.

A draft bill foreseeing the reinstatement of former state broadcaster ERT, which was abruptly closed down in June 2013 by the previous conservative-led administration, was made available for public consultation on Monday ahead of its anticipated submission in Parliament from Thursday onward.

A draft bill foreseeing the reinstatement of former state broadcaster ERT, which was abruptly closed down in June 2013 by the previous conservative-led administration, is expected to be presented in Parliament on Monday even as Greek government officials brace for tough discussions with eurozone peers on a proposed economic reform program.

Draft legislation foreseeing the reinstatement of former state broadcaster ERT, which was abruptly closed down in June 2013 by the previous conservative-led administration, will be submitted in Parliament next Thursday, a government official said on Friday.