High court upholds fine against TV station for racy weather gal (Watch vid – You judge!)

Watch a Greek TV station’s now fined prime-time weather report during the “Golden Era” — Pre-crisis …

Greece’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, on Monday published a decision that maintains a fine against an Athens television station for its raunchy prime-time weather reports by a scantily clad presenter.

The original fine was levied by the board of the National Council for Radio-Television, an independent broadcast watchdog agency, known as ESR.

A majority of the Parliament-appointed board members had ruled, in 2009, that the presentation of the weather segment by a model mostly known by her first name, Petroula, did not contain the necessary “qualitative standard entailed in television’s mission.”

The process was initially begun after complaints against the Star TV channel’s weather segments by the voluptuous Petroula (Kostidou).

After viewing several of the segments, ERS board members referred to a “young television presenter”, who is “particularly lightly dressed”, with a (certain) “body stance” and employing “roles irrelevant with the weather report”. The initial report by the watchdog also mentioned that the presented signs off with the phrase “I am Petroula, and I just finished”.