TVP Info is a Polish

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television news channel, run by the

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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 compound in central

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History

TVP Info replaced

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and was launched October 2007. It has regional branches in most of the major Polish cities and, similarly to

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, for a couple of hours every day it broadcasts regional programming, including local news and reports in sixteen versions. These were transferred to the revived

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(which later was renamed

again) in September 2013. In addition, it disseminates certain programs on

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, where it has the ''TVP World'' channel. Broadcasting via

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started in 2005, but was discontinued on 31 December 2014 due to economic issues. TVP Info has been broadcast in 16:9 since 23 February 2011. Its HD simulcast feed was launched on 30 September 2016 on digital terrestrial television and on 5 April 2017 on

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satellite. The SD feed was closed down there on 21 April 2017. Just weeks after winning the 2015 parliamentary elections, the conservative Law and Justice party passed a media law in December 2015 giving the government direct control over public broadcasting. It is fully controlled by Poland's government, causing

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to bemoan the fact. The first media reports about ''TVP Info HD'' appeared in December 2014, which were confirmed in March 2015 by TVP president

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. On 15 February 2016, TVP President

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announced in a media interview that he planned to launch TVP Info HD. In the night of 18 to 19 July 2016, due to the planned launch of TVP Info HD on the third digital terrestrial television multiplex,

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was replaced. On 26 September 2016, TVP announced that the station would broadcast in HD resolution starting 30 September 2016. As per that date, TVP Info HD was available via the multiplex of the third digital terrestrial television and in cable networks. Via satellite, only the SD feed could be tuned in until 5 April 2017. On 5 April 2017 at 1:00 pm, TVP Info HD started broadcasting via satellite. On 20 April 2017, TVP Info shut down its SD feed. According to Kurski, the channel would be set to begin broadcasting in 1080i50 in early 2018, accompanied by a change of the scenery for the main studio of TVP Info. TVP’s authorities decided to create the ''TVP World'' channel due to "the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, and the need to produce honest and fair reporting, especially regarding issues that feature false reporting along with propaganda disinformation from

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. Said TVP President Kurski, "Polish public television feels responsible for defending the Polish ''

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'', which is why we hastened TVP World’s debut."

Programmes

TVP Info broadcasts news bulletins every half an hour around the clock. TVP Info simulcasts TVP World, the English-language news channel of TVP during late nights, and during the day it broadcasts current affairs programs. A partial list follows: * ''Break the Fake'' * ''Eastern Express'' with Jonasz Rewiński * ''Poranek Info'' (''Info Morning'' - morning news) * ''Pogoda Info'' (''Info Weather'' - Polish and European forecasts) * ''Serwis Info Poranek'' (''Morning Info Service'' - live news segment every half hour during Poranek Info) * ''Info Biznes'' (''Business Info'' - business news) * ''Serwis Info Dzień'' (''Info Day Service'' - midday news) * ''Sport Info'' (sports news) * ''Minęła 20'' (''Eight p.m. 20'' - talk show) * ''Reportaż TVP INFO'' (reports) * ''Panorama Info'' (main news program) * ''Info Wieczór'' (''Evening Info'' - evening news) * ''Debata TVP INFO'' (''Debate TVP INFO'' - weekly news debate, airing on Saturday two or three times a month) *

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 -''

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 ...

main news program) *

Teleexpress Teleexpress is the second news program of the Telewizja Polska, TVP, broadcast daily on TVP1 and on TVP Info at 17:00 / 5:00PM. Until June 1992, it was broadcast at 17:15 / 5:15PM. It may broadcasts at different hours on TVP1 if the schedule of s ...

(

second news program) *

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(

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main news program)

References

External links

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TVP Info at LyngSat Address
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