Greece

TA NEA TOY ANT1 is a famous news television programme in Greece aired by ANT1

ANT1

Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

 since 1992 and is currently hosted by Giannis Papadopoulos as well as the rest of the ANT1 News Team.

It has previously been hosted by Terrence Quick, Dimitris Stamou, Elli Stai and more recently Nikos Evagelatos.

TA NEA TOY ANT1 broadcasts its main evening news show at 20:00 (local time

Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in some European countries that also use Eastern European Summer Time as a summer daylight saving time.- Usage :...

) and this runs for one hour. During 2000 through to 2001, the show started at 19:30 and ran for one and a half hour. Before 1997, it was broadcast for 30 minutes.

The main evening news on ANT1 has been number one in the Greek television ratings several times. The program is in direct competition for viewers with other private television stations such as Mega Channel

Mega Channel

Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...

 and Alter

Alter Channel

Alter Channel better known as Alter, is a private TV network in Greece. It launched in 1994 and is owned by Eleftheri Tileorasi S.A, which is headed by Andreas Kouris. Programming mainly consists of news & current affairs shows and entertainment programmes...

 who also broadcast their main evening news shows at 20:00. Alpha TV

Alpha TV

Alpha TV is a Greek terrestrial channel . The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on entertainment programs. The studios are located near Athens...

 moved their main evening news from 20:00 to 19:00 in 2009 so no longer compete to be number one in this time slot.

TA NEA TOY ANT1 also broadcasts an afternoon edition of the program which airs at 13:00 (local time) and runs for approximately 25 minutes. There is a second shorter edition at 17:45 (local time) which lasts for approximately 15 minutes and also features the news in sign language

Sign language

A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's...

. The midnight edition of the news (which in reality can broadcast anytime between 00:00 - 02:30) lasts for approximately 10 minutes.

All ANT1 Greece's news broadcasts are available to watch online at www.ant1online.gr

Cyprus

In Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, TA NEA TOY ANT1 KYΠPOY (ANT1 Cyprus News) has different reporters and begins every night at 20:20 (local time) and runs for approximately one hour. The main broadcast is also repeated during the night allowing viewers a second chance to watch.

ANT1 News in Cyprus also offers a 30 minute news program at 18:00 and a 20-minute late night news program that broadcasts at midnight local time.

ANT1 Cyprus offers viewers worldwide the opportunity to watch the midnight broadcast online at www.antenna.com.cy

See also

• List of ANT1 newscasters
• List of programs broadcast by ANT1