{"id":6320,"date":"2025-04-09T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/publisher-kostas-kavvathas-dies-at-86\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:58:32","slug":"publisher-kostas-kavvathas-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/publisher-kostas-kavvathas-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Publisher Kostas Kavvathas dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1266540\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Capture-4367-320x200.jpg?v=1744198949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Capture-4367.jpg?v=1744198949\" alt=\"Publisher Kostas Kavvathas dies at 86\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Capture-4367.jpg?v=1744198949\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"186\">Publisher and journalist Kostas Kavvathas has passed away at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"355\">He was the founder of several well-known magazines focused on automobiles and defense, including 4 Wheels, Flight &amp; Space, as well as the radio station En Lefko.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"498\">His articles appeared in the magazine Epikaira, the newspaper To Vima from 1991 to 1998, and briefly the following year in Kathimerini.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"623\">In the early 1990s, he was elected to the Athens City Council, serving under the late mayor Antonis Tritsis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"783\">Later, he went on to host a long-running car-themed television show on the Mega channel, which was named after his first publishing venture, Wheels &amp; Roads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1266540\/publisher-kostas-kavvathas-dies-at-86\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher and journalist Kostas Kavvathas has passed away at the age of 86. 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