in-cyprus13 Jul 2026

The TV crisis was 15 years in the making, following €10 million auction in 2010

The uproar over Cyprus’s transition to high-definition television is not some sudden problem. It is the chronicle of a foretold failure.

What we are living through now is the accumulated result of bad decisions, political neglect and investment paralysis stretching back some 15 years, bad enough to bring the country to within a hair’s breadth of losing free terrestrial television altogether....

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