Interview: Peter Smith, Antenna Group
Antenna Group is an Athens-based multinational broadcaster with a very strong presence in Greece (with its ANT1 free-to-air channel) as well as radio stations, and channels in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Romania. Its media investments include broadband services, publishing, music labels, and even a credit card business. IBC365 speaks to ...
The Group is extremely modern. Established only in 1989 – in radio - by Minos Kyriakou and now run by his son Theo. It is now Greece’s largest media player and is still expanding.
The company acquired the underperforming assets of Fox Televizija Serbia from News Corp in 2010 and initiated a restructuring and rebranding that turned around the company into the market leader within 14 months. It operated in a similar savvy fashion when it acquired Nova Television Bulgaria for $3 million in 2000. When this was sold in 2008 for $970 million, it represented one of the largest returns on investment ever achieved by a European media company. The Group has some 2200 staff.
“The challenge over the past 4 or 5 years has been to…
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