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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Greek media outlet off the air for first time since WWII

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — When Nazi troops marched into Greece's nearly deserted capital on April 27, 1941, radio announcer Costas Stavropoulos of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. announced the grim news. He then urged his countrymen and women not to listen to future Nazi radio transmissions and signed off with the Greek national anthem.That moment in Greek broadcasting history is indelibly ...

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