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Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna (TVP SA)

Type	television
Country	Poland
Availability	National
Owner	Government of Poland
Key people	Romuald Orzeł
Launch date	1952
Official Website	tvp.pl

Main TVP headquarters at Woronicza street, Warsaw.

Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna (TVP S.A., often abbreviated to only TVP, Polish Television) is Poland's public broadcasting corporation. About a third of TVP's income comes from a broadcast receiver licence, while the rest is covered by commercials and sponsorships.

Timeline

• 1935 – Państwowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (State Telecommunications Institute, PIT) starts working together with Polish Radio on establishing television service
• 1937 – completion of a black and white broadcasting station
• 1938, October – experimental channel, regular programming scheduled for 1941
• 1939, September – all the equipment destroyed by the German Army
• 1947 – PIT resumes work on television broadcasting
• 1951, December – first Polish telecast after the Second World War
• 1952, 25 October – beginning of a regular program
• 1971, 16 March – start of colour broadcasting (in SECAM)
• 1992, 29 December - Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna comes into existence upon the separation of television and radio public broadcasting by an act of parliament
• 1993 – 1 January Polskie Radio i Telewizja (Polish Radio and Television) joins European Broadcasting Union as an active member (regrouping of OIRT and UER).
• 1995 – move from SECAM to PAL
• 2009 - New Building

TVP Channels

mainstream

TVP broadcasts two general mainstream channels:

• TVP1
• TVP2

news and regional affairs

• TVP Info, which also acts as an umbrella label for the local stations:
  • TVP Białystok in Białystok for Podlaskie region
  • TVP Bydgoszcz in Bydgoszcz-Toruń for the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region
  • TVP Gdańsk in Trójmiasto for the Pomerania region,
  • TVP Gorzów in Gorzów Wielkopolski for Lubusz region
  • TVP Katowice in Katowice (Upper Silesian Metropolis) for Silesian region
  • TVP Kielce in Kielce for Holy Cross region
  • TVP Kraków for the Lesser Poland region
  • TVP Lublin for the Lublin region
  • TVP Łódź for the Łódź region
  • TVP Olsztyn for Warmia-Masuria region
  • TVP Opole for the Opole region
  • TVP Poznań for the Greater Poland region
  • TVP Rzeszów for the Subcarpathian region
  • TVP Szczecin for the West Pomerania
  • TVP Warszawa for Warsaw and the Masovia region
  • TVP Wrocław for the Lower Silesia region

specialty channels

• TVP Kultura - high-brow culture channel, available on cable, satellite and DSL
• TVP Sport - sport channel available on cable, satellite and DSL
• TVP Historia - focusing on history
• TV Polonia - retransmits selected TVP programming for the Polish diaspora (the so called Polonia) in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, and the Caucasus.
• TVP HD - HD channel

non-Polish-language

• Belsat TV - channel in the Belarusian language presenting news and interesting programming for the people of Belarus

planned channels

• TVP Rozrywka - entertainment and comedy
• TVP Parlament - parliamentary channel

International Cooperation

TVP is cooperating with the French-German TV network ARTE^[1], this cooperation has been suspended in February 2009 as TVP's new Intendant's, Piotr Farfał, views were incompatible with Arte’s "philosophy based on intercultural exchange" ^[2] and "the party that TVP's chairman is presently connected with does not share European values"^[3].

Logo History

References

External links

• Official Site (Polish)

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