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The Tempo TV was the first non-state TV channels emitted in Greece after its launch Mega Channel, the ANT1 and Channel 29. February 1990 started broadcasting with the name New Channel (or just New Channel) and licensed nationwide. The best known emissions of the channel were Logodosmenoi, Gold Koufeto the Erotodikeio the Flagrant and many Greek and foreign music video clips. In 1993 the New Channel transmits and Greek races basketball.

The channel broadcast the first broadcast journalist Makis Triantafillopoulos titled 'Yellow Type' . Also broadcasting and first transmission type life style on Greek TV with new artistic and news for people of showbiz titled Myths and Reality which showed Dimitris Papanotas, also presenter of the first releases news station. Other known presenters news channel was the Dimitris Konstantaras and Menya Papadopoulou.

The New Channel founded by Sotiris Kouvelas, which originally served as mayor in Thessaloniki municipality the two years 1987-1989 and then was founded the municipal broadcasting the Thessaloniki s (TV 100, FM 100, FM 100.6 and FM 101). The New Channel by TV 100 had worked together for some time, exchanging programs and newscasts.

The station belonged to the 'New Channel Broadcasting Co. SA', and in 1999 changes hands and passes into the hands of Stabilton SA and renamed New Tempo and in October 2000 in Tempo TV or simply Tempo. The program changed radically in the effort of upgrading and assumes news presenter for a very short time but the journalist Nick Evaggelatos. Financial crisis of the owner company in late 2001 causes Nick Evaggelatos to leave the channel.

At the end of 2002 takes the station program, entirely TV production company VCA. Eventually the station was unable to overcome the serious economic problems, and in October 2003 stopped functioning. Two years later the frequency occupied by the stock channel SBC.