TVN Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly known as TVN Grupa Discovery) is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery that operates television channels and services in Poland. It operates the

TVN Group TVN Group (''TVN S.A.'') is a Polish media and entertainment group established in 1995 as ''TVN Sp. z o.o''. The CEO of TVN Group is Katarzyna "Kasia" Kieli, president and managing director of TVN Warner Bros. Discovery. Its TV channel, TVN, i ...

, a media company acquired by

Scripps Networks Interactive Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) was an American mass media company, which was formed on July 1, 2008, and acquired by and merged into Discovery Communications on March 6, 2018. It was formed in 2008, through the spin-off of the E. W. ...

, which later got bought by

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With the merger of WarnerMedia with

, and the restructuration of its

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, the company's Polish assets, instead of being under Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA control, were left under its own subsidiary under control of Kasia Kieli, which is also president of TVN Group.

History

Background

, a Polish media company founded on 1995, was acquired by

in 2015; first a 52.7% majority stake on March, and the remaining stake owned by

ITI Group ITI Group (International Trading and Investments Holdings SA Luxembourg), known as Grupa ITI in Poland, was a large media conglomerate headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. On 2 July 2015, ITI Group and Canal+ Group complete the sale of their controll ...

and Canal+ Group on July. In December 2016,

bought a 49% stake on

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, a recently launched television channel by

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. In August 2017, Discovery announced that it would buy the remaining 51% stock, gaining complete ownership over the channel.

Establishment

On March 6, 2018, Scripps was acquired by Discovery, which led to the latter to expand its Polish business. Since then, Discovery merged its localized global networks under TVN Group control. In 2022, after Discovery completed its merger with WarnerMedia, Kasia Kieli was named president for the group operations in Poland (also being named CEO of TVN Group), noting that Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA had no oversight over operations in the country, making it a separate entity under

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. On July 7, 2022, Edward Miszczak, programming director at TVN since its beginnings and member of the board of directors of the company announced its departure, with a transition period in which he will be the director of the newly created programming division at TVN Warner Bros. Discovery.

Local assets

** TVN **

TVN 7 TVN7 is a Polish television channel specialising in action, drama and comedy shows and movies. Owned by TVN Group, the channel was launched in March 2002, replacing RTL7. It was relaunched on 1 September 2008 as TVN7. On 1st September 2014 the ...

TVN24 TVN24 is a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel, 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. It gained broader popularity after the Septem ...

*** TVN24 BiS **

TVN Fabula TVN may refer to: * TVN (Australian TV channel), a former horse racing channel * Televisión Nacional de Chile, a public broadcaster * TVN (Indonesia), a former television station; predecessor of Rajawali Televisi * TVN (Norway), or TVNorge, a comm ...

TVN International TVN International or iTVN is a Polish pay television channel that was launched on April 2004. It is part of the TVN network and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery It is aimed at the Polish diaspora living abroad, mainly in Europe and North America ...

***

TVN International Extra TVN International Extra ''(iTVN Extra)'' is a Polish television channel belonging to the TVN Group. It is the second TV channel of TVN International addressed to Poles living abroad. It is targeted at the Polish community living in the United Sta ...

TVN Style TVN Style is a Polish-language channel aimed at women featuring the latest in fashion, health and beauty. It was first launched on August 1, 2004 and a part of the TVN network, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Line-up * ''Miasto kobiet'' (''City ...

TVN Turbo TVN Turbo is a Polish TV channel aimed at men with a major focus on automotive programming, it launched on 12 December 2003. It is part of the TVN network and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. TVN Turbo features programming of interest to me ...

** TTV ** Canal+ Poland (32%; with Canal+ Group and

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) *

Discovery Historia Discovery Historia is a Polish television channel broadcasting history-related programmes. The channel was originally a joint-venture between Discovery Networks and TVN, but TVN left the venture in 2009. (Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Dis ...

Global assets

* Animal Planet *

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* Cartoonito * Cinemax ** Cinemax 1 **

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* Discovery Life *

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* DTX * Eurosport **

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** Eurosport 2 * Food Network *

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** HBO 1 ** HBO 2 **

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* Investigation Discovery *

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* Travel Channel * Warner TV

Leadership

* Kasia Kieli, President & Managing Director TVN Warner Bros. Discovery and CEO TVN * Rafał Ogrodnik, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer * Dorota Żurkowska-Bytner, Chief Revenue Officer * Michał Samul, News Director * Maciej Gozdowski, Streaming Director * Bogdan Czaja, Programming & Operations Director * Jarosław Potasz, Studios & Productions Director * * Dominika Stępińska-Duch, Chief Legal, Privacy and Compliance Officer * Agnieszka Maciejewska, Chief People and Culture Officer * Jan Mróz, Chief Communication & PR Officer * Marcin Bogłowski, Chief Strategy, Insights and Data Officer * Krzysztof Kozłowski, Chief Technology Officer

References

{{Authority control 2018 establishments in Poland Mass media companies established in 2018 Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries Companies based in Amsterdam Mass media in Warsaw Europe, the Middle East and Africa TVN (Polish TV channel)