| Type | Radio |
|---|---|
| Country | Poland |
| Availability | Terrestial (analogue), satelite, Internet |
| Launch date | 1925 |
| Official website | www.polskieradio.pl |
Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.
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Polskie Radio was found on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts from Warsaw on 18 April 1926.
Before the Second World War, Polish Radio operated one national channel – broadcast from 1931 from one of Europe's most powerful longwave transmitters, situated at Raszyn just outside Warsaw and destroyed in 1939 by the invading German Army – and nine regional stations:
A tenth regional station was planned for Łuck, but the outbreak of war meant that it never opened.
After the war, Polskie Radio came under the tutelage of the state public broadcasting body Komitet do Spraw Radiofonii "Polskie Radio" (later "Polskie Radio i Telewizja" - PRT, Polish Radio and Television). This body was dissolved in 1992, Polskie Radio S.A. and Telewizja Polska S.A. becoming independent corporations, each of which was admitted to full active membership of the European Broadcasting Union on 1 January 1993.
Today Polskie Radio broadcasts six national radio channels:
Polskie Radio also operates 17 regional radio stations, located in Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice (Radio Katowice – one of the largest regional stations), Kielce, Koszalin, Kraków (Radio Kraków), Lublin (Radio Lublin), Łódź, Olsztyn, Opole, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warszawa (Radio dla Ciebie), Wrocław, and Zielona Góra (Radio Zachód).
The alternative, jazz, and rock channel Polskie Radio Trójka has been compiling Polish music charts since 1982 – in an era before there were any commercial sales or airplay rankings – making them the most important record of musical popularity in Poland. The chart archives from 1982 are available on the channel's own internet site.[7]
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