TVN24 is a Polish 24-hour commercial

news channel 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 ...

, launched on 9 August 2001. Being a part of the TVN Network, TVN24 has been owned since July 2017 by US-based media company

Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with Di ...

. It gained broader popularity after the

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in the US, which was the first major incident to be covered by TVN24. It is available over all digital platforms in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

(

Cyfrowy Polsat Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (; English: ''Digital Polsat''), trading as Polsat Box is a Polish Direct to Home, DTH satellite TV platform. It is the fifth-largest digital platform in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. Polsat Box has 3.47 ...

and nc+) as well as in most cable networks and some networks in other countries, including USA (

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) and Germany. The audio portion of the channel can be streamed on the internet. Launched on 30 November 2012, TVN24 is the longest-established HD news channel in

and

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. The TVN24 team is also responsible for the TVN flagship newscast, Fakty TVN. During major events (most recently

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, Pope John Paul II's death and the Polish presidential plane crash), TVN24 is transmitted by TVN which has much wider broadcast range. On 6 February 2018, the

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approved the

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(now

) acquisition deal. Since

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, which operates pay television services in Poland under the UPC Polska brand, is a major shareholder in Discovery Inc, EU competition law required that Discovery ensures the continued availability of TVN24 and TVN24 BiS to third-party TV providers.

Online

TVN24 debuted its news websit
tvn24.pl
on 19 March 2007.

TVN24 HD

A one of TVN's planned channel is a TVN24 HD. Test & official start of the TVN24 HD started on 30 November 2012.

Editorial stance and reception

TVN24 tends to be strongly critical of the Polish government under 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 ...

(PiS) party.Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski & Roland Benedikter
Poland Is Not Hungary: A Response to "Poland's Constitutional Crisis"
, ''Foreign Affairs'' (21 September 2016). Historian and columnist

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has praised ''Fakty TVN'', writing that it is far more professional than

Telewizja Polska Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in English 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. Sin ...

's (TVP) ''

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 ''Dzien ...

'' (News).Timothy Garton Ash
For a bitter taste of Polish populism, just watch the evening news
, ''The Guardian'' (25 June 2020). Ash wrote in 2019: "The ''Facts'' is not

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-style impartial: it clearly favours a more liberal, pro-European Poland and is strongly anti- PiS. But unlike the so-called ''News'', it is still definitely professional, high quality, reality-based journalism."

References

External links

Official Site
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