In Greece the first radio broadcastings started during the ’20 and they were experimental.   In 1923 the first radio program was carried out from the base of the Command of Radio Broadcasting of the Naval Ministry in Votanikos.  Two years later the Megareow School made two experimental programs in Athens.  “In 1928 the first radio station of the Balcans was founded in Salonica by Christos Tsiggiridis and it broadcast till 1946.   In 1929 the Greek state announced an international competition for the installation of a national radio station.   In 1936 the procedures for a transmitor at Nea Liosia started and three broadcasting studios were organized in Zappio Megaro”.  Up to that time the broadcast programs were illegal by amateurs, semi-formal and a few formal.  “The needs of the audience were satisfied mainly by the Greek programs of the foreign radio stations”.   At that time, during Metaxas’ dictatoriship, the Department of Radio Programs was established by law and on the 21st. of May 1938 the operation of the Radio Station of Athens began.

 “After the declaration the Greek-Italian war a second small trasmitter of AM waves was established in order to cover the Albanian Front and the neighboring countries.  In April of 1941 the occupational forces of Germany, took over the broadcasting studios in Zappio and the transmitter at N. Liosia.   The month after that the National Radio Service was abolished and its assets came into the possession of the newly established Anonimous Radio Broadcasting Company.   Italian and German programs were added to the Greek programs of the Athens Radio Station.   The Greek audience turned to the Greek programs of the foreign stations for information regarding the war.   Listening to these programs was illegal”.  In October of 1944 the Germans blew up the antennas of the AM waves of the station in Pallini and the trasmitter at N. Liosia before their departure.   That resulted in the inability to operate the Athens Radio Station on 12 October, when the city was freed.   Fortunately, the station operated again after a few days because of the small trasmitter of the University of Athens. 

The National Foundation of Broadcasting in which the assets of the Anonymous Radio Broadcasting Company were transferred was established in June of 1945.   The NFB was a government organization and its governing committee and its general manager were appointed by the government.    The first general manager was the journalist Hercules Petimezas and the first program manager was Yiannis Dimaras.   “  The fall of 1946 the general manager P. Sifneos established the Radio Station of Salonica.  The radio stations of Patra (1947, Volos and Larissa (1948), Ioannina, Kavala, and Tripoli (1949) and Kozani (1950) followed.   “The Central Radio Station of the Armed Forces was established in 1948 and in 1949 two amateur stations in Mytilini and Chania started broadcasting”.   During the decades of ’60 and ’70 the illegal amateur broadcasting, the so-called radio piracy, flourished.   

 Until 1968 the resources of the radio came from subscribers – people who had a radio receiver- and from advertising.  In 1968 the system of subscription was abolished and the income for the NFB was placed on the electricity bill of each citizen.  “ The NFB was renamed as the National Foundation of Broadcasting and Television in 1970 and in the same year the Information Service of Armed Forces was established.” 

“After the Political Changeover in 1974, the direct control of the radio and television by the government was confirmed by the Constitution of 1975.   The same year the NFBT was transformed to an anonymous governmental agency/organization by the name of Greek Radiobroadcasting-Television (EPT).   Yet the so called “free radiobroadcasting” was enforced de facto in the spring of 1987, when the three bigger cities of the country, Athens, Piraeus and Salonica, founded the first city radio stations.   The same year, the Unified Organization (Ενιαίος Φορέας) which included ET (Greek Television) with its three stations and EPA (Greek Radio-broadcasting) with its five programs, was legislated”.  

With the establishment of the Free Radio-broadcasting many local and private stations appeared (!) like Athens 9,84, Diavlos, and the economically powerful Sky, Ant-1 etc.   In October of 1989 a law was passed for the establishment of the National Radio-Television Committee.   Another law was passed in 1995 which licensed radio-broadcasting and television according to the frequency maps of each prefecture.   Finally,  in April of 2001, with the preamble of the NRTC the government decided to shut down about 60 radio stations in Attica alone and allowed only 28 to operate.