On the AM band, there are few licensed stations left, all of which are state-run. Unlicensed broadcasting is tolerated as the majority of listeners have abandoned the MW band. A number of unlicensed radio stations have taken advantage of that, thus avoiding the "crowded" FM band. A number of pirate radio enthusiasts use the expanded upper part of the AM band (1600–1710 kHz) for "experimental" transmissions. When MW pirate radio broadcasting occurred, there was a formal division between the AM and FM, in
Athens and
Thessaloniki. On the MW/AM band most radio pirates in
Athens were broadcasting foreign music (pop and rock) whereas in FM most radio pirates broadcast Greek popular music. In
Thessaloniki, and most of the rest of Greece, on MW/AM pirates were playing Greek popular music, and foreign pop and rock on FM. Currently, with several exceptions, nearly all MW/AM radio pirates play Greek popular music to a limited audience.
In Athens All the state-run radio stations still broadcast their programs on the MW band, except the
Third Programme which gave its frequency (666 kHz) to an ERA Filia (Friendship) which has been suspended since 2013. The program is shared with another state station
Kosmos. Since unlicensed broadcasting on the AM in Greece is illegal but tolerated, some pirate radio stations broadcast full-fledged radio programs, some with commercials and some experimental. An example is on 1098 kHz, broadcasting experimentally in C-QUAM, AM Stereo, one of the few AM Stereo radio stations in Europe. Other unlicensed radio stations on the MW include those on 909 kHz, 1017 kHz, 1035 kHz and 1188 kHz.
In Thessaloniki The two official state-run radio programmes still broadcast their programmes on the MW: the first programme of the Radio Station of Macedonia on 1044 kHz and the second programme on 1179 kHz (simulcasting along with their FM services). A notable unlicensed radio station in Thessaloniki is the 1431AM, a free radio station broadcasting regularly from the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki campus in the centre of the city. Other pirate radio stations in the Thessaloniki area are using the 1566 kHz and the
AM expanded band (1600–1710).
The rest of Greece State-run
ERA radio stations broadcast the
ERA International Network programme to the
Mediterranean and south-east Europe on 765 kHz (ERT Ioannina), 927 kHz (ERT Zakynthos), 1008 kHz (ERT Corfu), 1260 kHz (ERT Rhodes), 1404 kHz (ERT Komotini) and 1512 kHz (ERT Chania) in
Greek. Other regional radio stations still broadcast in AM their programs (ERA National network), such as Kavala and Kozani on the same frequency (1602 kHz) and Heraklion Crete (954 kHz). Numerous pirate stations, many of them high powered, broadcast irregularly throughout Greece. Most are from the central-northern part of the country (Thessaly, West, and Central Macedonia) but there are AM radio pirates in Thrace, Crete, Cyclades and Peloponnese as well. On the
AM expanded band (1600–1710) numerous radio pirates transmit experimentally without a regular schedule, or program, mostly Greek popular music along with
Q code QSO.
Ionian islands Peloponnese Macedonia Thessaly Komotini Ioannina Agrafa Chania ==Short Wave (SW band)==