By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to reopen the state broadcaster abruptly unplugged nearly two years ago, in a symbolic move to heal what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a "great wound" of the country's bailout programme. Re-opening The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) has been a priority for his leftist Syriza party, which fiercely protested the way television screens went black at midnight on June 11, 2013, after the then conservative-led government decided to shutter the 75-year-old institution. ERT, which cost 300 million euros (£214.67 million) a year to run, was replaced with a slim-downed broadcaster named NERIT, which is expected to be merged or absorbed by ERT.
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