Greek TV station shut down during live broadcast  Alys Francis,
ninemsn 12:33pm June 13, 2013 June 13, 2013: Despite being live
to air, these television news programs were shut down in an
effort to cut costs due to the Greek government’s severe
austerity measures..  Staff from Greece's state-run television
station have stood in front of their own cameras to express
their outrage at having to shut down while broadcasting live due
to the government's cost cutting measures.  ERT TV and Radio was
gradually pulled off the air in the middle of the night on
Tuesday in Greece (local time), just hours after the
conservative-led government said it would temporarily stop
state-run broadcasts and sack 2500 staff.  ERT employee Dimitris
Giolos voiced his upset during a live broadcast as the station's
transmitters were switched off.  "Gradually emitters started
going down in the mountains around Athens and Thessaloniki, and
I think that slowly Greece will go silent from the TV and radio
signal of ERT," Mr Giolos said.  New