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.
TVP 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.
Poland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 26 times since its debut in 1994. The Polish participant broadcaster in the contest is Telewizja Polska (TVP).
TVP1 is the main public television channel of TVP, Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
TVP2 is a Polish public mainstream TV channel operated by TVP. Launched in October 1970, its varied line-up contains a variety of programming although it focuses on entertainment: stand up comedy, comic shows, cabaret, and themed talk shows.
TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public state broadcaster TVP. It is focused on newscasts, mainly broadcasting nationwide news bulletins. Until 20 December 2023, its main offices were located in the Television Information Agency building at Warsaw Insurgents Square; since 29 December 2023 the channel's activities are carried out from the main TVP building on Woronicza Street, Warsaw.
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 Metropolis GZM and Katowice metropolitan area.
TVP3 Kraków is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
International Visegrád Day commemorates the anniversary of the meeting of the presidents of Poland and Czechoslovakia and the prime minister of Hungary at Visegrád Castle on 15 February 1991. It is celebrated on 15 February every year. It was initiated by the International Visegrad Fund along with public service media from Visegrád Group countries and established by memorandum of understanding between public service media form Visegrád Group countries on 18 June 2015.
Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi is a Polish journalist, writer and television presenter who also holds Vatican City citizenship through marriage. She started working as a travel presenter after graduating from the University of Warsaw before becoming the Telewizja Polska Italian correspondent.
Poland participated in and won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 which took place on 25 November 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. Roksana Węgiel was internally selected on 21 September 2018 as the Polish representative, competing with the song "Anyone I Want to Be". She won the contest with a total of 215 points.
Dziennik Telewizyjny, commonly simplified to Dziennik, is a Polish daily television news program that was produced and broadcast by Telewizja Polska between 1958 and 1989, during the time Poland was under communist dictatorship. It was Poland's second regularly televised newscast by the Polish United Workers' Party during the Cold War. The final telecast aired on 17 November 1989 and the program was replaced by Wiadomości on the following day, 18 November 1989.
Robert David Gamble is an American businessman and Episcopal priest, a great-grandson of James Gamble. Between 1980 and 1992, he was a hospital chaplain in Boston. In 1984, he started being engaged in the movement of Alcoholics Anonymous in Poland. In 1991 or 1992, he co-founded Radio Obywatelskie. In 1992, he co-founded Media Rodzina. In 1999, he received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the pastor of the Anglican Church in Poland. In 2014, he received a title of a titular pastor of this parish from the Bishop in Europe. He used to organize a Christmas Eve for the solitary people in Poznań. In 2016, he received the Title of Merit of the City of Poznań. He published a Polish version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, an autobiography of Barack Obama, and Promise Me, Dad. Both in the case of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, he published their books before they became a President of the United States.
Media Without Choice was a one-day protest against the government of Poland due to a proposed tax on advertising. The protests began on 10 February 2021 and participants included paper journals, press-related internet portals, television stations, radio stations, and information portals. They protested by ceasing their usual activities, such as the publishing of news or advertisements, and turning off their transmissions.
The 2020–21 Ekstraliga was the 46th edition of Poland's highest women's football league. Górnik Łęczna were the defending champions, since on 22 May 2021 Czarni Sosnowiec secured their 13th title ever.
Kanał Sportowy is an online sports channel founded at the end of 2019.
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.
On December 19, 2023, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland, dismissed the then-current state media directors and their supervisory boards, most notably those of public broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP), appointing new ones in their place. The move was met with criticism and accusations of illegality by the dismissed management and the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, causing a parliamentary intervention in the TVP headquarters.
19.30 is the main Polish television news program produced by Telewizja Polska (TVP) and broadcast on TVP1, TVP Polonia, TVP Info and TVP Wilno. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30 p.m. It premiered on December 21, 2023 and succeeded Wiadomości, which was canceled following the management changes at TVP days before.
Telewizja Republika or TV Republika is a Polish television station, whose editor-in-chief is Tomasz Sakiewicz. The channel can be received via satellite, via the Internet and terrestrial in the DVB-T system, as well as in the DVB-T2 system. From 2022, the channel broadcasts its program 24 hours a day. The live portion of its output in Polish is broadcast every day for 16 hours, from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., while between 11:00 p.m. and midnight, the programs of the English-speaking editorial staff of the channel are broadcast.
