Telewizja Polska
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| Type | Television |
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| Country | Poland |
| Availability | Poland (and also parts of Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia and Slovakia) |
| Slogan | Bądźmy razem (Let's be together) |
| Headquarters | 17 Woronicza Street Warsaw, Poland |
| Owner | Government of Poland |
Key people | Jacek Kurski (general director) |
Launch date | 25 October 1952 |
Official website | tvp |
Telewizja Polska S.A. (TVP S.A., or Polish Television) is a Polish public service broadcaster. It is the largest Polish television network, with 13 national and 16 regional channels. About a third of TVP's income comes from a broadcast receiver licence, while the rest is covered by commercials and sponsorships.
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Timeline of Polish TV service[edit]
- 1935: The PIT (Państwowy Instytut Telekomunikacyjny - National Telecommunications Institute) starts working together with Polish Radio on establishing the first television service.
- 1937: Completion of the first black-and-white broadcasting station.
- 1938: Experimental channel launched, regular programming scheduled for 1941.
- 1939: All equipment destroyed by the German Army.
- 1947: PIT resumes work on television broadcasting.
- 1951: First Polish telecast after the Second World War.
- 1952: Beginning of regular programming.
- 1958: Newscast Dziennik Telewizyjny was founded.
- 1970: TVP2 was founded.
- 1971: Start of colour broadcasting (in SECAM).
- 1989: Introduction of a teletext service.
- 1989: Dziennik Telewizyjny was replaced by Wiadomości.
- 1992: Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna comes into existence upon the separation of television and radio public broadcasting by an act of parliament.
- 1993: Polskie Radio i Telewizja (Polish Radio and Television) joins the European Broadcasting Union as an active member (regrouping of OIRT and UER).
- 1994: Beginning of the change over from SECAM to PAL for all channels except TVP1.
- 1995: Change over from SECAM to PAL was completed as TVP1 moved to this colour standard.
- 2003: Change of TVP logotype.
- 2009: New main headquarters building opened in Warsaw.
- 2013: Analogue terrestrial television was switched-off
- 2016: The Polish government institutes a takeover of TVP. It has since been accused of being a propaganda machine for the ruling party and its allies.
TVP channels[edit]
Bolded channels are accessible in Poland via DVB-T. Other channels (except TVP Parlament) are satellite and (except Belsat TV and TVP Polonia) pay television.
General and regional channels[edit]
- TVP1: mostly news, current affairs, movies, dramas, children's and sports. Broadcasts 23.5 hours per day.
- TVP2: mostly news, movies, comedy, soap operas, series, stand-up comedy, culture, sports and game shows. Broadcasts 23.5 hours per day.
| Channel | Total viewing (%) |
|---|---|
| TVP1 | 13.17% |
| TVP2 | 10.30% |
| TVP Info | 2.61% |
| TVP Seriale | 1.14% |
| TVP Polonia | 0.68% |
| TVP Rozrywka | 0.48% |
| TVP Historia | 0.45% |
| TVP Kultura | 0.41% |
| TVP HD | 0.37% |
| TVP3 | 0.36% |
| TVP4 | 0.00% |
| TVP6 | 0.00% |
| TVP Sport | 0.29% |
| Belsat | 0.29% |
| TVP Parlament | 0.09% |
| Poland In | 0.01% |
| Total | 30.26% |
- TVP3: region-focused channel, which airs local programmes, and acts as the umbrella label for local stations including:
- TVP3 Białystok in Białystok for Podlaskie region
- TVP3 Bydgoszcz in Bydgoszcz-Toruń for the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region
- TVP3 Gdańsk in Trójmiasto for the Pomerania region,
- TVP3 Gorzów Wielkopolski in Gorzów Wielkopolski for Lubusz region
- TVP3 Katowice in Katowice (Upper Silesian Metropolis) for Silesian region
- TVP3 Kielce in Kielce for Holy Cross region
- TVP3 Kraków for the Lesser Poland region
- TVP3 Lublin for the Lublin region
- TVP3 Łódź for the Łódź region
- TVP3 Olsztyn for Warmia-Masuria region
- TVP3 Opole for the Opole region
- TVP3 Poznań for the Greater Poland region
- TVP3 Rzeszów for the Subcarpathian region
- TVP3 Szczecin for the West Pomerania
- TVP3 Warszawa for Warsaw and the Masovia region
- TVP3 Wrocław for the Lower Silesia region
HD channels[edit]
- TVP1 HD: HD version of TVP1, introduced 1 June 2012;
- TVP2 HD: HD version of TVP2, introduced 1 June 2012;
- TVP Info HD: HD version of TVP Info, introduced 30 September 2016;
- TVP HD: the best productions of TVP in HD, introduced 6 August 2008;
- TVP Sport HD: HD version of TVP Sport, introduced 12 January 2014.
- TVP Kultura HD: HD version of TVP Kultura, introduced 23 October 2019.
Specialty channels[edit]
- TVP Info: news channel. Broadcasts 24 hours per day.
- TVP Historia: focusing on history. Broadcasts 20 hours per day.
- TVP Kultura: high-brow culture channel. Broadcasts 21 hours per day.
- TVP Polonia: retransmits selected TVP programming for the Polish diaspora (the so-called Polonia) in the US, Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, and the Caucasus. Broadcasts 24 hours per day.
- TVP Rozrywka: focusing on entertainment available on cable, satellite and DSL. Broadcasts 21 hours per day.
- TVP Seriale: focusing on series. Broadcasts 22 hours per day.
- TVP Sport: sport channel. Broadcasts 24 hours per day.
- TVP ABC: Children's channel. Broadcasts 18 hours per day.
- TVP Parlament: parliamentary channel. Broadcasts online.
Non-Polish language broadcasting includes Belsat TV – channel in the Belarusian language presenting news and subject-specific programming for the people of Belarus. Broadcasts 16 hours per day.
Criticism[edit]
In late 2010s, TVP has been criticized for becoming unduly biased towards the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.[3] In 2018, The Economist noted: "the [TVP] anchors... praise PiS slavishly while branding its critics treacherous crypto-communists.[4]
The press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders wrote in its 2019 assessment of Polish press freedom that "many blamed state-owned TV broadcaster TVP’s 'hate propaganda' for Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz’s murder in January 2019."[5]
International cooperation[edit]
TVP has an agreement with the BBC, under which they will work together on film and television productions.[6]
The French-German TV liberal arts network ARTE cancelled a 15-year cooperation with TVP,[7] when it learned in February 2009 that TVP's general director, Piotr Farfał, was a member of the League of Polish Families, which opposed Arte’s "philosophy based on intercultural exchange"[8] and "the party that TVP's chairman is presently connected with does not share European values".[9] It was again cancelled in January 2016 after an amendment of the media law in Poland, which caused fears of a lack of pluralism and independence of TVP.[10]
Logo history[edit]
- 1952–1992: white-red inscription TP.
- 1992–2003: Green letter T, red V, blue P, and the word TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A. and three stripes: red, green and blue. In addition to letters three lines.
- 2003–present: TVP logo and lettering TELEWIZJA POLSKA.
1952–1992
1992–2003
2003–present
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Redakcja tvp.pl" (in Polish). TVP S.A. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ^ "TVP1, TVN, Polsat i TVP2 mocno w dół w 2013 r. (top 122)". wirtualnemedia.pl. 2 January 2014.
- ^ ‘Cruder than the Communists’: Polish TV goes all out for rightwing vote The Guardian, 2019
- ^ "Poland's ruling Law and Justice party is doing lasting damage". The Economist. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Poland". Reporters Without Borders.
- ^ "TVP stawia na współpracę z BBC. Nowe produkcje". Media2.pl. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ arte.tv. Archived 2012-07-08 at Archive.today
- ^ "Libertas to cut links with controversial Polish political party". The Irish Times. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ Nick Holdsworth. "Dual peril for Poland's top pubcaster". Variety. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ Francuska TV ARTE zrywa współpracę z TVP (in Polish)
- Official website
(in Polish) - Digitaltvnews.net, Poland's TVP Launches Free-To-Air Satellite Platform.
External links[edit]
Dzień Otwarty w Telewizji Polskiej pod hasłem „najbliżej gwiazd” at Wikinews
Media related to Telewizja Polska at Wikimedia Commons
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