Athens International Radio
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| Broadcast area | Athens |
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| Frequency | 104.4 MHz |
| First air date | 2004 |
| Owner | Municipality of Athens |
Athens International Radio (AIR 104.4 FM) is an Athens radio station aiming at a non-Greek speaking listenership. It broadcasts on 104.4 FM in 16 languages (not simultaneously), including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Urdu.
The station produces more than 15 hours of locally produced programmes daily, consisting of news, music, traffic, weather, chat, comment and entertainment tips.
The station broadcasts content from the BBC World Service, Radio France Internationale and Deutsche Welle.
On September 16, 2010, an Athens public prosecutor confiscated AIR's transmitters on Mount Hymettus on the grounds that the radio was operating without a valid license. This led to AIR ceasing its broadcasts on the FM band, leaving it only with its 7/24 web livestream.
The Greek National Broadcasting Council is to review the station's status on September 21, 2010 and is expected to issue a non-binding recommendation to the Telecommunications watchdog about AIR's future.
Athens International Radio is a project of Athena 98.4 FM, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Municipality of Athens.
[edit] External links
• [1] Listen live
• AIR's announcement after the confiscation of its transmitting equiment
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