"Tempo TV"

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Tempo TV (originally New Channel) was a Greek private television station of nationwide range based in Athens.

New Channel was the fourth in series television station to operate in Greece, after the start of MEGA, ANT1 and Channel 29. His first name was taken from his former owner company (New Channel).

By the Government of Mitsotakis in the two years 1993-1994, it obtained a temporary television licence valid for seven years (1993-2000), without financial consideration, as did all other national television stations.

Background

Background
New Channel went on the air at a time of changes to Greece's broadcasting scene, at the time when the government of Giannis Zannetakis voted to legalize free broadcasting, putting an end to the state monopoly that existed until that time in the briefing. Two years before the station's first broadcast, the merger of ERT1 and ERT2 took place to a single entity (ERT S.A.), which would operate as a private law legal person. The establishment of the Institute for Radio Television Media (IOM) and the Society for the Production and Marketing of Broadcasts and Television Programmes followed, while in 1989 the National Broadcasting Council (ESP) was established.

Preparation and first broadcast of the station on 17 February 1990
A few days before the first shows, the channel is advertised in magazines and newspapers. The station began broadcasting on 17 February 1990 from Thessaloniki to New Channel (New Channel) with founders Sotiris Kouvelas (who served as mayor in the municipality of Thessaloniki in 1986-1989 where he founded municipal broadcasting) and the businessman and then Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture Fotis Manousis. New Channel was originally the Athenian version of the municipal local channel as they had worked with each other for a long time, exchanging programs and newscasts (mostly the short ones) while in the evening the television station was also networked with the Municipal Radio of Thessaloniki, FM 100.

The first programs of the station
After a start of relatively low tons, the New Channel made an effort to gain a greater share of ratings from 1992 onwards, buying and replaying popular foreign series such as the Dynasty, airing Greek series of its own production such as "The Price", "Show and Innocent" and "Our Police Department", which were not particularly successful, and stopped after a number of incidents.

In 1993-1996, the station started broadcasting Greek basketball games, in particular the Greek Cup. During the same period the channel broadcast the first show by Makis Triantafyllopoulos entitled Kitrinos Type and first lifestyle show with artistic news and news about the faces of the show entitled Myths and reality presented by Dimitris Papanos