The mass media in Poland consist of several different types of communications media including television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet.
TVN is a Polish free-to-air television station, network and a media and entertainment group in Poland. It was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter, Jan Wejchert and Swiss entrepreneur Bruno Valsangiacomo. It is owned by TVN Group, which as of April 2022, is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Current CEO is Katarzyna Kieli.
Telewizja Polska S.A., also known in English as Polish Television, is a public service broadcaster in Poland, founded in 1952. It is the oldest and largest Polish television network. After 2015, when the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party won the Polish parliamentary election, TVP progressively aligned with the speaking points of the PiS government. In the run-up to the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, TVP was designated as a "propaganda arm" of PiS by European media and as "a factory of hate" by the Polish opposition. However, after the electoral victory of the opposition party the Civic Platform in 2023, a newly-appointed Minister of Culture began a restructuring of the broadcaster and its news segment. On December 27, 2023, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, due to the President's veto on the financing of the company, placed it in liquidation.
Disco polo is a genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the 1980s. It was initially known as sidewalk music or backyard music. This genre, a type of Polish urban folk music, had great popularity in the 1990s, peaking in 1995–1997, then gradually declining in popularity through the early 21st century. The genre then had a resurgence in the winter of 2007. The Polish PWN dictionary defines the genre as a Polish variant of disco music, with simple melodies and often ribald lyrics.
Polsat is a Polish free-to-air television channel that was launched on 5 December 1992 by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. As of 2019, it is the most watched television channel in Poland with a market share of 11.30%
Robert Witold Makłowicz is a Polish food critic, journalist, historian and television personality, notable as a promoter of the Polish cuisine and slow food. He is best known for his series of culinary TV programs Makłowicz w podróży.
Television in Poland was introduced on an experimental basis in 1937. It was state owned, and was interrupted by the Second World War in 1939. Television returned to Poland in 1952 and for several decades was controlled by the communist government. Colour television was introduced in Poland in 1971. Private television stations in Poland appeared around the time of the fall of communism, with PTV Echo becoming the first private station in Poland.
Disney Channel is a British-managed Polish television kids' channel, owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company and a localized version of the U.S. channel of the same name.
Teletoon+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by the Canal+ Group through Canal+ Polska SA, available on Platforma Canal+. The channel targeted at children, carrying various animated films and television series.
VH1 Poland was a Polish pay television music channel from VIMN Polska. It was launched on December 1, 2005, replacing MTV Classic, another Polish MTV channel which used to broadcast mainly classic videos. VH1 Poland shows almost only music-based programs and plays a much broader range of videos than its predecessor. Many themed music programs were broadcast on a daily or weekly basis.
Eska TV is a free-to-air 24-hour Polish language music channel launched on August 8, 2008, in Poland. In the beginning the channel was only on the Internet. After receiving the license for satellite broadcasting, 28 May 2009 got to offer DTH platform n. April 26, 2011 received a concession for digital terrestrial broadcasting. The channel will be in the first DTT multiplex.
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.
Polo TV is a Polish-language television channel, focusing mainly on music programming. Its owner is Telewizja Polsat. The station mainly plays disco polo and dance as well as folk, country, romani, muzyka biesiadna and foreign disco music. Aside from music broadcasting, the station also airs entertainment programmes and coverage of music events.
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, is their flagship.
Telewizja Polsat is a Polish media company and broadcaster of television channels mainly under the Polsat brand.
Michał Matczak, known professionally as Mata, Młody Matczak or Skute Bobo, is a Polish rapper, singer and songwriter.
The seventeenth series of Warsaw Shore, a Polish television programme based in Warsaw, Poland was announced in April 2022 and began airing on 18 September 2022. The series was filmed in Wrocław, making this the second series to be filmed there following the fifth series in 2016. The team took a trip to the Czech Republic and then returned to Wrocław, finally settling in Warsaw.This is also the first series not to include Daniel "Arnold" Jabłoński, Patrycja Morkowska, Radosław "Diva" Majchrowski, and the original member Ewelina Kubiak after their departures the previous season. It was also the first series to include five new cast members, Aleksandra Okrzesik, Przemysław "Sequento" Skulski, Wiktoria "Jaszczur" Robert, Dominik Gul and Małgorzata "Gosia" Jeziorowska. The series also featured the brief return of two former cast members Alan Kwieciński and Ewa Piekut. This was the final series to include cast members Jeremiasz "Jez" Szmigiel y Kamil Jagielsk.
Poland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "Solo" performed by Blanka. The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) organised the national final Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję! in order to select the Polish entry.
Krzysztof Jan Gonciarz is an internet creator, filmmaker, journalist, and YouTuber, responsible of the channels Zapytaj Beczkę, Krzysztof Gonciarz, and TheUwagaPies on YouTube. He is the owner and creator of Japanese-based filmmaking company Tofu Media. He formerly worked as a journalist for Gry-Online.
Stuart Alexander Kluz-Burton – British YouTuber based in Poland, creating content mostly in the Polish language under the name Stuu, formerly Polski Pingwin.
