ERT Komotini streams Greek-language public radio, carrying news, culture and music programming on 98.1 and 91.2 FM from Komotini in Greek Thrace. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it streams instantly, free, with no account or app download required.
Broadcasting from where East meets West
Komotini has spent most of its documented history as a meeting point rather than a single cultural center. First mentioned in writing in the 14th century as a Byzantine settlement guarding the Via Egnatia trade route, the city fell under Ottoman rule in 1361 and only became Greek in 1920, following a period under Bulgarian and Entente administration after the First World War, according to a history of the city. That layered past left a visibly mixed city behind: roughly half of Komotini's population today is made up of ethnic Turks and Pomaks, communities that were specifically exempted from the population exchanges mandated by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The 14th-century Imaret, one of the oldest surviving Ottoman monuments in Thrace, still stands alongside the city's Greek Orthodox churches and its Democritus University of Thrace, founded in 1973.
A frequency that stayed on air through a national blackout
ERT itself traces back to 1938, when Greek state radio began broadcasting from Athens as the Radio Broadcasting Service, reorganized after liberation in 1945 into the National Radio Foundation and expanded into three national services, holding a broadcasting monopoly until commercial stations were finally licensed in 1987. The network's history took its most dramatic turn in June 2013, when the Greek government abruptly announced it would shut ERT down by the end of that day, dismissing all 2,500 employees and locking the facilities. Staff refused to go quietly: contemporary shortwave radio monitoring reports documented ERT employees seizing back a handful of medium-wave frequencies to keep broadcasting, including 1404 kHz, the Komotini transmitter, one of the signals that carried on-air resistance to the shutdown while the rest of the network went dark.
Listen free on Radio Shuffle
ERT Komotini streams around the clock, and Radio Shuffle carries the feed live with nothing to install and no subscription required. Press play for Greek public radio broadcasting out of one of Thrace's most layered cities.