Third Programme (ERT)

The Third Programme (Greek: Τρίτο Πρόγραμμα, Trito Programma) is the third public radio station of Greece's state broadcaster, ERT. The station's main program broadcasts focused on culture and classical music, and enjoyed great prosperity during the period when it was headed by Manos Hatzidakis. Since February 2016, the station chief is Dionysis Mallouchos.

Third Programme

Broadcast area	Greece: FM, DAB Worldwide: Internet Radio
Frequency	Hymettus: 90.9 & 103.7 MHz Parnitha: 95.6 & 102.9 MHz Thessaloniki: 90 & 92 FM and also all over Greece
Programming
Language(s)	Greek
Format	Classical music
Ownership
Owner	ERT
Sister stations	First Programme Second Programme ERA Sport
History
First air date	1954
Links
Website	Third Programme

History

Airs on September 19, 1954, with the author's initiative of Dionysios Romas, two years after the founding of the Second Program. The station then has a neglected medium wave transmitter, and transmitting intra-daily schedule.

The actual story, however, began the dictatorship and afterwards, when the reins of took the great composer Manos Hatzidakis. With a program that attracts the interest of people of all ages, even children, to show the characteristic Here Lillicity popularity Third Programme launched vertically.

Addressing the classical music and various cultural activities, the Third Programme, is the only such radio in Greece, having loyal.

Following the temporary closure of ERT on June 11, 2013 the Third Programme broadcast four hours to 24 hours in a single EPA and 25 September of the same year and emitted through the ERT Open. On March 10, 2014, the Third Programme reopened by the then Public Radio, and from 4 May was broadcast from NERIT. After the reopening of ERT on June 11, 2015, the station reinstated in EPA and stopped the broadcast by ERT Open.