Andreas Papandreu is one of the most well-known Greeks living in the 20th century. He was the creator of PASOK and served as the Prime Minister of Greece in the 1980s and 1990s. The aim of this paper is to present the activities of Andreas Papandreu"s government in 1981-1985 related to the sector of television. Special emphasis is being put on instrumentalization of public service broadcasting. The presented chapter argues that media policies of left-wing-oriented Papandreu were a part of His "socialist dream", which could have been observed in all fields of societal, economic, and political environments of Greece in the 1980s.
