Radio Arvyla

Radio Arvyla
Genre	Satirical Talk-Show
Directed by	Antonis Kanakis
Presented by	Antonis Kanakis Giannis Servetas Stathis Panagiotopoulos Christos Kiousis & Kostakis & Pasoktsis
Opening theme	"Sugar Baby Love" by The Rubettes [1]
Country of origin	Greece
Original language(s)	Greek
No. of seasons	10
Production
Running time	approx. 60 minutes excluding commercials
Release
Original network	ANT1
Picture format	576i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	14 April 2008 - present
Chronology
Preceded by	A.M.A.N.
External links
Website	www.antenna.gr/radioarvyla

Radio Arvyla (Greek: Ράδιο Αρβύλα) is a Greek live show hosted by ANT1 in Thessaloniki.^[2] It first aired on April 2008. It is hosted by Antonis Kanakis, Giannis Servetas, Stathis Panagiotopoulos and Christos Kiousis. It mainly criticizes the political life and what prevails in the modern social life through parodies,videos, Comedy Sketches and jokes. As of 2016-17 season, it airs every other Monday, from 23.15 to 00.30, although it used to air from 18.00 to 19.00 during the 2007-2008,2008-2009 season..The first episode of season 4 aired on the 11th of October.^[3][4] All episodes of the show are available online on the official website of ANT1.^[5]

All four presenters of the show also moderate at the same Radiostation "Imagine 89,7", various Radioshows. The Radiostation is broadcasting in Thessaloniki Greece. In addition, all of them are professed T-shirt followers. Among other things, they prefer to wear T-shirts made by various Greek T-shirt labels like Greek Shirts, Vagrancy, Stardust and many more.^[6]

Format

The show begins with the segment "The bad Anecdote of the Day," where Stathis Panagiotopoulos tells an anecdote that is considered "burned". Afterwards, the "Top επικαιρότητας" segment begins, where videos from various events that occurred are shown, categorized into (usually 25) numbers, for which there are satirical videos (comic skits, parodies etc.) that make fun of the original videos that were presented earlier.

Reception

A lot of "conservatives" like Kostas Prekas have criticised the show for "crossing the line", Kostas Prekas stated that

"...they are making fun of everybody, they are pricks.This show must end."^[7]

Etymology

"Radio Arvyla" is a Greek idiom that means "false rumor". Literally it means "Army-boot Radio".

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