Telewizja Polska

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:
  • 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,^[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

• [1]

External links

• Official Site (Polish)