Warner Bros. Discovery Poland

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Warner Bros. Discovery Poland
FormerlyTVN Grupa Discovery (2018–2022)
TVN Warner Bros. Discovery (2022-2024)
Company type Subsidiary
IndustryMedia
Founded6 March 2018;6 years ago (2018-03-06)
Headquarters Media Business Centre,
Warsaw
,
Poland
Key people
Parent Scripps Networks Interactive (2015–2018)
Discovery Networks International (2018–2022)
Warner Bros. Discovery International (2022–present)
Divisions TVN Group
Website wbdpoland.pl
Footnotes /references
[1] [2] [3]

Warner Bros. Discovery Poland (formerly known as TVN Grupa Discovery and TVN Warner Bros. Discovery) is a Polish media company that is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery International. The business includes the assets of the TVN Group, a media company acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive, which later got bought by Discovery, Inc.

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Originally, with the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc., and the restructuration of its international business, 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, who is also a president of TVN Group. [2] [4]

History

Background

TVN Group, a Polish media company founded on 1995, was acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive in 2015; first a 52.7% majority stake on March, [5] [6] and the remaining stake owned by ITI Group and Canal+ Group on July. [7]

In December 2016, Discovery, Inc. bought a 49% stake on Metro, a recently launched television channel by Agora. [8] In August 2017, Discovery announced that it would buy the remaining 51% stock, gaining complete ownership over the channel. [9]

Establishment

On March 6, 2018, Scripps was acquired by Discovery, [10] 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 Warner Bros. Discovery International. [2] [4]

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. [3]

Local assets

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  4. 1 2 Zielińska, Urszula (April 21, 2022). "WarnerBros. Discovery w Polsce samodzielnym bytem. Są zmiany w kierownictwie TVN". Rzecpospolita. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
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