In Greece, people had been accustomed to a broadcasting environment consisting of two nation-wide television channels and four radio stations. They now need to adjust both their TV and radio sets to a new landscape which includes new private radio stations, satellite channels re-transmitted throughout UHF frequencies and new private channels against a background of complex political manoeuvres.

Such deregulation has been associated with the “hot politics' of the time rather than with the pursuit of a well-organized plan. Broadcasting has a symbiotic relationship with the political controversies of Greece with the starting point that both radio and television were born and established under dictatorships in modern Greece's troubled history. Consequently, both radio and television have been regarded as “arms of the state”. Moreover, the debate has been focused on governmental control and regular interference in television production, a condition which has become part of post-dictatorship politics. Since Parliament was reestablished, the Conservatives and Socialists have dominated the political scene, and have accused each other of too much governmental control over broadcasting.