One day after the closure of the Greek state broadcaster ERT last Tuesday, the company’s former employees occupied its headquarters and have been broadcasting over the Internet ever since. With this pirate initiative, they have finally created a truly free broadcaster, the online paper To Vima writes in delight:
“The ‘occupation’ of ERT by the ruling parties is over. The self-administration of the employees is the present and the future. Never was ERT as lively and attractive as it is today. The closure has been a massive liberation…. Rather than stopping them, the departure of the managers foisted upon them has given the employees a huge boost…. Switching off the signal and cutting off the telephone connections has not intimidated the former employees, but rather made them more rebellious….
“This unplanned programme they are now broadcasting is a thousand times better than the one that was bureaucratically planned. We are seeing the emergence of the ERT we all wanted, but never experienced.”
Source: To Vima Online, June 17
Is this the future for the CBC?
Umm…who’s paying their salaries?
Just asking.