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Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in
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as the public Polish Television is a Polish state media corporation. It is the largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s. Since 1993, the legal status of the broadcaster has been defined by the Broadcasting Act, according to which Telewizja Polska is obliged to implement "a public mission ... by offering ... various programmes and other services in the field of information, journalism, culture, entertainment, education and sport, characterized by pluralism, impartiality, balance and independence as well as innovation, high quality and integrity of the message." Since 2016, TVP has been described by critics as providing one-sided favorable coverage of the ruling
Law and Justice Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...
party.


Timeline of Polish TV service

* 1935: The PIT (Państwowy Instytut Telekomunikacyjny - National Telecommunications Institute) starts working together with
Polish Radio Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland. History Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making ...
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
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. * 1952: Beginning of regular programming. * 1957: Broadcast of the first sports event; a boxing match
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– Gwardia Łódź * 1958: Newscast '' Dziennik Telewizyjny'' ("Journal") was founded. * 1970: TVP2 was founded. * 1971: Start of colour broadcasting (in
SECAM SECAM, also written SÉCAM (, ''Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire'', French for ''color sequential with memory''), is an analog color television system that was used in France, some parts of Europe and Africa, and Russia. It was one of th ...
). * 1989: Introduction of a
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service. * 1989: Dziennik Telewizyjny was replaced by ''
Wiadomości ''Wiadomości'' (''News'', ) is the chief Polish news program produced by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on the first channel, TVP1. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. CET. It premiered on 18 November 1989 and succeeded the '' Dz ...
'' ("News"). * 1992: Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna comes into existence upon the separation of television and radio public broadcasting by an act of parliament. * 1992: TVP Polonia starts test transmissions. * 1993: Polskie Radio i Telewizja (Polish Radio and Television) joins the
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as an active member (regrouping of OIRT and UER). * 1994: Beginning of the change over from SECAM to
PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...
for all channels except
TVP1 TVP1 (TVP Jeden, ''Program I Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Jedynka"'') is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one ...
. * 1995: Change over from SECAM to PAL was completed as
TVP1 TVP1 (TVP Jeden, ''Program I Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Jedynka"'') is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one ...
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. * 2020: TVP eSzkoła, TVP Kultura 2 and TVP Dokument were founded. * 2021: TVP Kobieta was founded. * 2022: TVP ABC 2 was founded, replacing TVP eSzkoła.


International cooperation

In 2012, TVP signed an agreement with the
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, under which they will work together on film and television productions. The French-German TV liberal arts network
ARTE Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
cancelled a 15-year cooperation with TVP, when it learned in February 2009 that TVP's general director,
Piotr Farfał Piotr Grzegorz Farfał (born 18 May 1978 in Głogów) is a Polish rightwing politician of the League of Polish Families and former President of the Polish national TV network TVP.Robert Bosch StiftungEintragung bei den Deutsch-Polnischen Medientag ...
, was a member of the League of Polish Families, which opposed Arte’s "philosophy based on intercultural exchange" and "the party that TVP's chairman is presently connected with does not share European values". 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.


Viewership

In September 2020, TVP's "
Wiadomości ''Wiadomości'' (''News'', ) is the chief Polish news program produced by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on the first channel, TVP1. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. CET. It premiered on 18 November 1989 and succeeded the '' Dz ...
" was the most popular
news program News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...
in Poland, with an average of 2.66 million viewers a day.
In February 2021, TVP's "
Wiadomości ''Wiadomości'' (''News'', ) is the chief Polish news program produced by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on the first channel, TVP1. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. CET. It premiered on 18 November 1989 and succeeded the '' Dz ...
" was second most popular news program in Poland, with an average of 2.41 million viewers a day.


Logo history

File:Telewizja Polska 1952-1956.png, alt=, first logo 1952-1956 File:Telewizja Polska % 281956-1963% 29.png, alt=, second logo 1956-1963 File:TVP old logo.png, TVP's first logo used from 1976 to 1992. File:TVP logo old2.svg, TVP's second logo used from 1992 to 2003. File:TVP logo.svg, TVP's third logo used since 2003. File:TVP logo (variant).svg, Another variant of TVP's third logo used since 2003. File:Telewizja Polska 2022.svg, TVP's secondary logo since 2022.


TV channels

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TVP HD TVP HD is a special High Definition version of the Polish public broadcasting channels (Telewizja Polska). A digital terrestrial multiplex carrying the channel was available in Warsaw, Poznań, Zielona Góra, Żagań, Kraków, Leżajsk and Kr ...
and TVP Seriale are pay television. Unofficially announced plans to transfer these channels to free-to-air broadcasting. * TVP Wilno,
TVP Polonia TVP Polonia (formerly known as TV Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP). The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and broadcasts from the TVP headquarters in Warsaw. TVP Polo ...
, TVP Info and TVP Historia 2 are also available on DVB-T in Lithuania. * TVP World available on DTT in Poland (DVB-T2), Estonia (DVB-T), Lithuania (DVB-T), Austria (DVB-T2, Pay TV) and United Kingdom (HbbTV, DVB-T2).


Flagship channels

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TVP1 TVP1 (TVP Jeden, ''Program I Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Jedynka"'') is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one ...
: mostly news, current affairs, movies, dramas, children's and sports. Broadcasts 23.5 hours per day. Full HD introduced 1 June 2012. *
TVP2 TVP 2 (TVP Dwa, ''Program II Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Dwójka"'') is a Polish public mainstream TV channel operated by TVP. Launched in October 1970, its varied line-up contains a variety of programming (documentary, history, talk-shows, game-sh ...
: mostly news, movies, comedy, soap operas, series, stand-up comedy, culture, sports and game shows. Broadcasts 23.5 hours per day. Full HD introduced 1 June 2012. * *
TVP3 TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
: region-focused channel, which airs local programmes (regional blocks broadcasts 5,5 hours per day), and acts as the umbrella label for local stations including: **
TVP3 Białystok TVP3 Białystok is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Podlaskie Voivodeship. External links * Television channels and stations established in 1997 Mass media in Biał ...
in
Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...
for
Podlaskie Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province and its territory correspond to the historic region of Podlachia. The capital and largest ci ...
region **
TVP3 Bydgoszcz TVP3 Bydgoszcz is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as Cuiavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship or simply Kuj ...
in Bydgoszcz-Toruń for the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region **
TVP3 Gdańsk TVP3 Gdańsk is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Pomeranian Voivodeship. There was (1990 - 2010) an informative television programme ''Rodnô Zemia'' in the Kashubian languag ...
in
Trójmiasto Tricity, or Tri-City ( pl, Trójmiasto; , german: Dreistadt; , csb, Trzëgard; ) is a metropolitan area in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, consisting of three contiguous coastal cities in Pomerelia forming a row on the coastline of the Gda ...
for the
Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...
region, **
TVP3 Gorzów Wielkopolski TVP3 Gorzów Wielkopolski is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Lubusz Voivodeship. External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:TVP Gorzow Wielkopolski Television channe ...
in
Gorzów Wielkopolski Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...
for
Lubusz Lebus ( pl, Lubusz) is a historic town in the Märkisch-Oderland District of Brandenburg, Germany. It is the administrative seat of ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Lebus. The town, located on the west bank of the Oder river at the border with ...
region **
TVP3 Katowice TVP3 Katowice a.k.a. TV Katowice also Television Katowice is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Silesian Voivodeship with particular dedication to the Upper Silesian Metropolis a ...
in
Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
( Upper Silesian Metropolis) for Silesian region **
TVP3 Kielce TVP3 Kielce is a regional branch of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster, with the registered office located in Kielce. It serves Kielce and the entire Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship The Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, also known as ...
in
Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...
for Holy Cross region **
TVP3 Kraków TVP3 Kraków (''TVP Cracow'') is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopo ...
for the
Lesser Poland Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska ( la, Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Kraków. Throughout centuries, Lesser Poland developed a s ...
region **
TVP3 Lublin TVP3 Lublin is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a v ...
for the Lublin region **
TVP3 Łódź TVP3 Łódź is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is ...
for the
Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...
region **
TVP3 Olsztyn TVP3 Olsztyn is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship or Warmia-Masuria Province or Warmia-Mazury Province (in pl, Wojew ...
for Warmia-Masuria region **
TVP3 Opole TVP3 Opole is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Opole Voivodeship Opole Voivodeship, or Opole Province ( pl, województwo opolskie ), is the smallest and least populated voivod ...
for the
Opole Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ; * Silesian: ** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole'' ** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole'' * Silesian German: ''Uppeln'' * Czech: ''Opolí'' * Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city loc ...
region **
TVP3 Poznań TVP3 Poznań (also known as ''Telewizja Poznań'') is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Greater Poland Voivodeship. From 1994 till 2002 it was branded PTV. It has been using its ...
for the
Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed ...
region **
TVP3 Rzeszów TVP3 Rzeszów is one of the regional branches of the Telewizja Polska, TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Podkarpackie Voivodeship. External links Official website
Telewizja Polska Television channels and st ...
for the Subcarpathian region **
TVP3 Szczecin TVP3 Szczecin is one of the regional branches of the Telewizja Polska, TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire West Pomeranian Voivodeship. External links * Programs * ''Obiektyw Regionalna'' * ''Wokół nas'' Pr ...
for the
West Pomerania Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (german: Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Weste ...
**
TVP3 Warszawa TVP3 Warszawa (''TVP Warsaw'') is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Masovian Voivodeship with particular dedication to the Warsaw metropolitan area. From 1992 till 2003 it was b ...
for
Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
and the
Masovia Mazovia or Masovia ( pl, Mazowsze) is a historical region in mid-north-eastern Poland. It spans the North European Plain, roughly between Łódź and Białystok, with Warsaw being the unofficial capital and largest city. Throughout the centurie ...
region. Full HD introduced 15 February 2022. ** TVP3 Wrocław for the
Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
region


Thematic channels

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TVP Info TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public broadcaster, state media TVP. It is focused on newscasts, airing nationwide news bulletins from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Its main offices are located at the TVP ...
: news channel. Broadcasts 24 hours per day. Full HD introduced 30 September 2016. *
TVP Sport TVP Sport is a Polish sport channel owned by TVP launched on 18 November 2006. The channel is available on Canal+, Cyfrowy Polsat, as well as over cable providers. Broadcast SD broadcasting via satellite (''Eutelsat Hot Bird'') stopped on 6 A ...
: sport channel. Broadcasts 23,5 hours per day. Full HD introduced 12 January 2014. *
TVP ABC TVP ABC is a television channel offered by Telewizja Polska. The programming is aimed at children aged 4–12, their parents, and their teachers. Programs * ''Bolek and Lolek'' * '' Kuba and Sruba'' * ''Margo the Mouse'' * ''Reksio'' Imported p ...
: Children's channel. Broadcasts 18 hours per day. Full HD introduced 28 March 2022. *
TVP HD TVP HD is a special High Definition version of the Polish public broadcasting channels (Telewizja Polska). A digital terrestrial multiplex carrying the channel was available in Warsaw, Poznań, Zielona Góra, Żagań, Kraków, Leżajsk and Kr ...
: the best productions of TVP in HD. Broadcasts 23 hours per day. Start broadcast in Full HD from 6 August 2008. *
TVP Kultura TVP Kultura is the first TV theme channel to be run by the Polish public broadcaster TVP. It was launched on 24 April 2005 and is dedicated to arts and culture. Every day of the week, the channel concentrates on other disciplines; e.g., cinema, ...
: high-brow culture channel. Broadcasts 22-23 hours per day. Full HD introduced 23 October 2019. *
TVP Historia TVP Historia is a Polish free-to-air television channel that was launched in May 2007. It focuses on history programming. References Histoire TV Viasat History History Channel Rai Storia Rai Storia ( English: Rai History) is an Italian tele ...
: focusing on history. Broadcasts 20,5 hours per day. * TVP Dokument: documentary movies channel. Broadcasts 23 hours per day. Start broadcast in Full HD from 19 November 2020. * TVP Nauka: focusing on science and nature. Broadcasts 21 hours per day. Start broadcast in Full HD from 3 October 2022. *
TVP Rozrywka TVP Rozrywka is a Polish free-to-air television channel. It was launched on 15 April 2013 and focuses its programming on entertainment TV series. It is broadcast from the Telewizja Polska (TVP) headquarters in Warsaw . Availability Now T ...
: focusing on entertainment. Broadcasts 23 hours per day. Full HD introduced 23 February 2022. * TVP Seriale: focusing on series. Broadcasts 23 hours per day. * TVP Kobieta: focusing on programmes aimed at women. Broadcasts 22 hours per day. Start broadcast in Full HD from 8 March 2021.


UHD channels

* TVP 4K: Ultra HD channel. The channel currently only broadcasts during special sporting events. Current version will stop broadcasting on December 31, 2022.


Internet channels

* TVP ABC 2: children's channel broadcasts 18 hours per day. * Alfa TVP: teenager's channel broadcasts 18 hours per day. * TVP Historia 2: focusing on history. Broadcasts 20 hours per day. * TVP Kultura 2: high-brow culture channel. * Jasna Góra TV


International channels

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TVP Polonia TVP Polonia (formerly known as TV Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP). The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and broadcasts from the TVP headquarters in Warsaw. TVP Polo ...
– 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. Full HD introduced 1 September 2020. *
Belsat Belsat ( be, Белсат; pl, Biełsat; stylised as B☰LSAT) is a Polish free-to-air satellite television channel aimed at Belarus. The channel is a subsidiary of TVP S.A. From the outset, it has been co-funded by the Polish Ministry of For ...
– channel in the
Belarusian language Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some p ...
presenting news and subject-specific programming for the people in
Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
. Broadcasts 20-21 hours per day, included international TV-programm "Vot Tak" and rebroadcasting of the Ukraininan TV-marathon "United News". Full HD introduced in spring 2022. * TVP Wilno – channel presenting news and programming for the Polish-speaking minority in the
Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...
region of Lithuania, available in DVB-T in this country. Broadcasts 22-23 hours per day. Full HD introduced 10 September 2021. * TVP World – English-language channel for international audience. Start broadcast in Full HD from November 2021.


Streaming platforms

* TVP VOD: the main streaming service with a paid subscription and premium content for subscribers. After the restart in October 2022, premieres produced specifically for this service began to appear. The list of linear TV-channels disappeared after the restart. Available on own portal (vod.tvp.pl) and any apps and devices. * TVP GO: broadcast of linear TV-channels (Included
Belsat Belsat ( be, Белсат; pl, Biełsat; stylised as B☰LSAT) is a Polish free-to-air satellite television channel aimed at Belarus. The channel is a subsidiary of TVP S.A. From the outset, it has been co-funded by the Polish Ministry of For ...
and Pershyi kanal Suspilʹnoho. Except
TVP HD TVP HD is a special High Definition version of the Polish public broadcasting channels (Telewizja Polska). A digital terrestrial multiplex carrying the channel was available in Warsaw, Poznań, Zielona Góra, Żagań, Kraków, Leżajsk and Kr ...
, TVP Seriale and TVP Wilno) and content library. Available on HbbTV and mobile apps. * TVP Stream: broadcast of selected TV-channels (
TVP3 TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
,
TVP Polonia TVP Polonia (formerly known as TV Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP). The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and broadcasts from the TVP headquarters in Warsaw. TVP Polo ...
, TVP Wilno, TVP World,
TVP Info TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public broadcaster, state media TVP. It is focused on newscasts, airing nationwide news bulletins from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Its main offices are located at the TVP ...
, TVP Kultura 2, TVP Historia 2, TVP ABC 2, Alfa TVP, Pershyi kanal Suspilʹnoho, Jasna Góra TV and translations from
TVP Parlament TVP Parlament is a Polish internet channel. It is run by the public broadcaster Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from ...
). Available on own portal (stream.tvp.pl). *
TVP Parlament TVP Parlament is a Polish internet channel. It is run by the public broadcaster Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from ...
: Broadcasts of parliamentary sessions and state events. Available on own portal (tvpparlament.pl) and TVP Stream. * TVP Sport Stream: Broadcasts of sporting events not included in the linear TV-channel schedule. Available on own portal (sport.tvp.pl/transmisje) and mobile or smart-TV apps.


Upcoming channels

* TVP 4K (regular broadcasting): Full-time Ultra HD channel. Currently only broadcasts during special sporting events.


Former channels, services and projects

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TVP Regionalna TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
(1994-2000): Regional network (first version). *
TVP3 TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
(2000-2007): Regional network (first version). *
TVP Info TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public broadcaster, state media TVP. It is focused on newscasts, airing nationwide news bulletins from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Its main offices are located at the TVP ...
(2007-2013): News channel and Regional network. *
TVP Regionalna TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
(2013-2016): Regional network (relauch, second version). Replaced to
TVP3 TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Pol ...
(second version). *
Poland IN Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
(2018-2021): English-language online platform. Replaced to TVP World. * TVP eSzkoła (2020-2022): educational channel during the pandemic. * TVP eSzkoła Domowe Przedszkole (2020-2022): educational channel during the pandemic. Replaced to TVP ABC 2. * Tylko Muzyka (1997-1998): First thematic channel from TVP. * TVP Żagle (2013) * iTVP (2005-2008) * TVP Telewizja Naziemna (2020-2021) * TVP Bieszczady (2014) * TVP 25 lat wolności (2014) * TVP Festiwal Dwa Teatry Sopot 2014 (2014) * TVP Regionalna śladami Jana Pawła 2 (2014) * TVP Zdrowo i ze Smakiem (2014)


Controversies

Before 2015, the PiS (then opposition) often criticized TVP of siding with government (PO-PSL) or even compared it to communist propaganda In 2015, the government passed a law allowing it to directly appoint the head of TVP. Since then, TVP has displayed bias towards the
Law and Justice Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...
(PiS) party (then government), and was compared by critics with propaganda of the former Communist regime.Sources: * * * * *
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br>2020 presidential election final report
(): "The public broadcaster (TVP) failed in its legal duty to provide impartial coverage, which could offset the editorial bias of the private media. Instead, TVP acted as a campaign vehicle for the incumbent." * * * TVP has also faced criticism for its portrayal of LGBT people, the political opposition, Jews, and other groups as a shadowy conspiracy seeking to undermine Poland. In 2018, ''
The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...
'' stated: "the VPanchors... praise PiS slavishly while branding its critics treacherous crypto-communists. The press freedom organization 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.". Ahead of the 2019 European parliament elections, TVP ran 105 segments of the election of which 68 of 69 focused on the ruling party were positive and all 33 about the opposition were negative, according to a study by the Society of Journalists. Polish political scientist and anti-racism activist
Rafał Pankowski Rafał Pankowski (born 1976)Dr. Rafal Pankowski speaker profile
stated, "I am old enough to remember Communist-controlled television in the 1980s, and I can safely say that what we have now is cruder, more primitive, and more aggressive than anything that was broadcast at that time."This contasts with the testimonies that killer of Pawel Adamowicz was reading
Gazeta Wyborcza ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of " real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the ...
Dziennik Bałtycki Dziennik Bałtycki (lit. Baltic Daily) is a local newspaper in Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, ...
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Polityka ''Polityka'' (, ''Politics'') is a centre-left weekly news magazine in Poland. With a circulation of 200,050 (as of April 2011), it was the country's biggest selling weekly, ahead of ''Newsweek''s Polish edition, '' Newsweek Polska'', and '' W ...
and
Wprost ''Wprost'' (, meaning "Directly") is a Polish-language weekly news magazine published in Poznań, Poland.
and watched
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Polsat Polsat is a Polish free-to-air television channel that was launched on 5 December 1992 by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. , it is the most watched television channel in Poland with a market share of 11.30% Polsat belongs to Grupa Polsat Plus ( WSECPS, wh ...
but not TVP
TVP was heavily criticized in the run-up to the 2020 Polish presidential election, being described as the "mouthpiece" of the government and as "peddl nggovernment hate speech" by the organization Reporters Without Borders. The state television broadcast a segment of
Wiadomości ''Wiadomości'' (''News'', ) is the chief Polish news program produced by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on the first channel, TVP1. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. CET. It premiered on 18 November 1989 and succeeded the '' Dz ...
called ''Trzaskowski spełni żydowskie żądania?'' ("Will Trzaskowski meet Jewish demands?") regarding the Civic Platform candidate
Rafał Trzaskowski Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski (; born 17 January 1972) is a Polish politician and the current city mayor of Warsaw. He is also a political scientist specializing in European studies. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (2009–2013) ...
. A complaint was made by the American Jewish Committee, Union of Jewish Religious Communities, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, to the Polish regarding antisemitism in the program. The Council concluded not only were anti-semitic statements made in the show, it did not uphold
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: Wiadomości "turned into an instrument of propaganda of one of the candidates in this election".
In 2020, the station was ordered to retract a documentary, '' Inwazja'', released just before the 2019 elections. Comparing the LGBT movement unfavorably to the
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and Communism, the documentary claimed that there is an "LGBT invasion" of Poland and that LGBT organizations have the goal of legalizing pedophilia. It was found to defame the
Campaign Against Homophobia Campaign Against Homophobia (actual name: ''Kampania Przeciw Homofobii'', abbreviation: ''KPH'') is a Polish gay rights organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm. It was founded in Warsaw in Se ...
organization. Ombudsman
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stated, "The material not only reproduces stereotypes and heightens social hatred towards LGBT people, but also manipulates facts." According to
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, "the broadcaster has descended into the paranoid world of the far right, where spotless, heroic, perpetually misunderstood Poles are being conspired against by dark, international
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-plutocratic forces meeting secretly in
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chateaux." TVP president
Jacek Kurski Jacek Olgierd Kurski (, born 22 February 1966 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician and journalist, and the current chairman of the Polish public broadcaster TVP. He was previously a Member of the Sejm (2005–2009), Member of the European Parlia ...
rejected the contention that the organization violated broadcasting law, and conservative media commentator and former TVP employee Jacek Karnowski says the station "deserves recognition" for its "consistent promotion of patriotism and pro-state thinking".


See also

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Polskie Radio Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland. History Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making ...
* Radiokomitet *
Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (officially known in English as the National Broadcasting Council and also commonly referred to by its Polish acronym KRRiT) is the Poland, Polish broadcasting regulator, which issues radio and television broad ...


References


External links

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