Athens International Radio
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| City | Athens |
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| Broadcast area | Attica |
| Branding | AIR FM 104.4 |
| Frequency | 104.4 MHz |
| First air date | 2004 |
| Format | News & Entertainment |
| Language(s) | Greek, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Urdu |
| Callsign meaning | AIR FM 104.4 |
| Owner | Municipality of Athens |
| Sister stations | Athena 98.4 FM |
| Website | www |
Athens International Radio (AIR 104.4 FM) was an Athens radio station aiming at a non-Greek speaking listenership. It broadcast on 104.4 FM in 16 languages (not simultaneously), including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Urdu.
The station produced more than 15 hours of locally produced programmes daily, consisting of news, music, traffic, weather, chat, comment and entertainment tips.
The station broadcast content from the BBC World Service, Radio France Internationale and Deutsche Welle.
On September 16, 2010, an Athens public prosecutor confiscated AIR's transmitters on Mount Hymettus on the grounds that the radio was operating without a valid license. This led to AIR ceasing its broadcasts on the FM band, leaving it only with its 7/24 web livestream which ceased in 2015.
The Greek National Broadcasting Council reviewed the station's status on September 21, 2010 and issued a non-binding recommendation to the Telecommunications watchdog about AIR's future.
Athens International Radio was a project of Athena 98.4 FM, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Municipality of Athens.
Foreign journalists Paul Anastasi and Lou Economopoulos created Athens International Radio (AIR 104.4 FM) in 2003 and in 2004 when Athens hosted the Olympic Games it began broadcasting. The story of Athens International Radio goes back to 1988 when Anastasi, an Anglo-Cypriot journalist who at that time was the Athens correspondent of the New York Times and the London Daily Telegraph, set up an AM radio station called Olympic Action, it was the first English-language radio station ever in Greece.
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