Logos to become part of Mega TV

A PRELIMINARY agreement has been reached which will see Church-owned station Logos TV become part of Greece’s Mega Channel.

Archbishop Chrysostomos is ready to rent out the state-of- the-art equipped Logos to the Greek station with only the contracts left to be signed, according to reports.

The initial agreement provides for the light-entertainment channel to pay £450,000 a year in rent to the Church.

Representatives of Mega are expected on the island next week to sign the agreement which will see Logos handed over to the Greek company on a long-term lease.

Once the paperwork is complete, Logos will officially become Mega Cyprus — like its more popular counterpart Antenna — on September 1.

It is understood that under the agreement three hours of religious programmes will be transmitted in the early morning or afternoon but after the 5pm watershed there will be no church censorship or controls on programming schedules.

However, Mega is said to have promised to tone down its more risqué programmes and stick to its formula diet of soaps, melodramas and glitzy game shows.

Logos has struggled for some time to get a foothold in the ratings, and as a result suffered huge operational losses for a number of years. But with the Mega deal, local jobs are now said to be secure.

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