Telewizja Polska

Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna (TVP SA)

Type	television
Country	Poland
Availability	National
Owner	Government of Poland
Key people	Juliusz Braun (general director)
Launch date	1952
Official website	tvp.pl

The TVP [ˈtɛ ˈfaw ˈpɛ], Polish Television) is a 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.

Main TVP headquarters at Woronicza street, Warsaw

Timeline of the TVP history

• 1935 – The PIT starts working together with Polish Radio on establishing the first television service.
• 1937 – completion of a first black-and-white broadcasting station.
• 1938 – experimental channel launched, regular programming scheduled for 1941.
• 1939 – all the equipment destroyed by the German Army.
• 1947 – PIT resumes work on television broadcasting.
• 1951 – first Polish telecast after the Second World War.
• 1952 – beginning of a regular programming.
• 1958 – Newscast Dziennik Telewizyjny was founded.
• 1970 – TVP2 was founded.
• 1971 – start of colour broadcasting (in SECAM).
• 1989 – introduce of teletext service.
• 1989 – Dziennik Telewizyjny was replaced by Wiadomości.
• 1992 – Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna comes into existence upon the separation of television and radio public broadcasting by an act of parliament.
• 1993 – 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 main headquarters building opened in Warsaw.

TVP channels

TVP broadcasts two general mainstream channels: TVP1 and TVP2. News and regional affairs are covered by the local stations as follows:

• TVP Info, which also acts as an umbrella label for the local stations such as:
  • 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 HD - HD channel
• TVP Historia - focusing on history
• TVP Kultura - high-brow culture channel, available on cable, satellite and DSL
• TVP 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 Seriale - focusing on series
• TVP Sport - sport channel available on cable, satellite and DSL

Non-Polish language broadcasting includes Belsat TV - channel in the Belarusian language presenting news and subject-specific programming for the people of Belarus. Planned TVP channels are: TVP Rozrywka (entertainment and comedy) as well as TVP Parlament (parliamentary channel).

International cooperation

TVP is cooperating with the French-German TV network ARTE, 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" and "the party that TVP's chairman is presently connected with does not share European values".

Logo history

Years	Description
1952 - 1992	The combined T and P in white and red: TP
1992 - 2003	The stripes in green, red and blue, and green T, red V and blue P:
2003 - present	White T, V and P, in white rectangles on blue background: TVP

References

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External links

• Official Site (Polish)