How the Greek television landscape changed during the financial crisis

ABSTRACT

The Greek television industry is facing the new challenges of the streaming era while still recovering from a decade-long debt crisis (2009–2019) that has been the focus of public attention both within the EU and beyond. This study, following the “critical media industry studies” research approach, aims to synthesise the state of knowledge of the sector in the aftermath of this crisis period by combining disparate academic approaches and examining the ways in which decision makers responded to economic and regulatory shifts; thus providing an overview of the Greek television industry that contributes to the theoretical development of the field and also has practical implications for media practitioners and policy makers.

KEYWORDS:

• Television industry
• financial crisis
• Greece

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Notes on contributors

Anna Podara

Anna Podara is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department Journalism & MC, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, holding a PhD from the same department. he is currently involved in a variety of academic activities, teaching about digital media & television, publishing her research on international journals, books and media conferences while being a peer reviewer on the field of media usage, streaming television & audiences studies. Her research interests focus on media use, streaming television, web platforms, audience studies and generation Z. Since 2004, she has been working as a journalist/documentarist in the Greek TV Industry.

Maria Matsiola

Maria Matsiola is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Digital Media, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. She received her degree from the School of Electrical Engineering – specialty in Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 1996 and her PhD on New Technologies on Journalism, from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTh in 2008. Her scientific interests include new media technologies & studies, web & broadcast radio and television, audiovisual content management, audiovisual application systems in journalism education. Dr Matsiola has been involved in many research projects on the aforementioned fields of study and she has authored many scientific articles. She teaches courses related to journalism and new media and audiovisual productions.