Greece's most influential private television station permanently went off the air on Friday, after a Council of State (CoS) plenum rejected a bevy of motions by its management and 112 employees to block a decision by the country's independent broadcast watchdog ordering a suspension of its terrestrial transmission.
A majority of justices of Greece's highest administrative court ruled that the failure of Athens-based Mega channel to participate in a recent tender for nationwide broadcast licenses leaves it without legal standing to continue broadcasting.
Mega discontinued newscasts and live programs in September 2016, while also failed to submit an application to alter its broadcast license at the time.
