GROwnership & classification
Founded: 1993
Ownership
SKAI is the flagship of the Skai Group (operating company News Dot Com S.A.), a private Greek media conglomerate controlled by the Alafouzos shipping family. Shipowner Giannis (Ioannis) Alafouzos is the majority shareholder and head of the group, which also owns Skai TV, Skai 100.3 radio and the daily newspaper Kathimerini. The skai.gr web portal is operated within this group. The Skai TV brand began broadcasting in 1993 (sold and rebranded as Alpha TV in 1999, then relaunched under the Skai name in 2006 after Alafouzos acquired Seven TV).
Funding
Commercially financed through television and radio advertising, digital advertising on its portals, and revenue from its publishing/broadcasting operations. As a private group it receives no licence-fee money; it competes for the same state advertising and broadcasting licences as other commercial Greek outlets (it paid €43.6m for a national TV licence).
Affiliation & stance
Privately and commercially owned by the Alafouzos family with no party or state ownership, which makes it INDEPENDENT. Editorially it is generally read as centre-right/liberal, and like other Greek private media its coverage reflects its owner's business interests, but it is not controlled by a party, church or the state.
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Lean Right
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 669
85/100
Factual
78/100
Objective
1347
Articles
1347
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An American gets the maximum amount of recovery time at Wimbledon.
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