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.
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:
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,[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
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
External links
Telewizja Polska
|
|
General Channels |
|
|
|
Speciality Channels |
|
|
HD Channels |
|
|
Defunct |
|
|
Planned |
|
|
Local branches |
- TVP Białystok
- TVP Bydgoszcz
- TVP Gdańsk
- TVP Gorzów Wielkopolski
- TVP Katowice
- TVP Kielce
- TVP Kraków
- TVP Lublin
- TVP Łódź
- TVP Olsztyn
- TVP Opole
- TVP Poznań
- TVP Rzeszów
- TVP Szczecin
- TVP Warszawa
- TVP Wrocław
- Belsat TV
|
|
Current |
- Telegazeta
- Agencja Informacji
|
|
Defunct |
- iTVP
- Platforma cyfrowa TVP
|
|
|
|
Full members |
European
members
|
|
|
Non-European members
|
|
|
|
Associate members |
Associate members
|
|
|
Former associate member
|
|
|
Approved participating
members
|
|
|
Past active members
|
|
|
Pending EBU membership
applications
|
|
|
|