Media in Poland
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Media and Politics
Poland has instituted freedom of press since the fall of communism. However, TV and radio are still politically controlled, via Radio and TV Committee, currently by leftist government circles.
Some say that they often use the public TV as means for propaganda. Recently grave irregularities have been found in the state owned TV channels during the investigation into the Rywin affair.
TV stations
- TVP 1 (state-owned)
- TVP 2 (state-owned)
- TVP 3 (regional and news programs)
- TVP Polonia (state-owned, for Poles living outside of Poland)
- TVP Kultura (cultural)
- Polsat (private, owned by Zygmunt Solorz)
- Polsat 2 International
- Polsat Sport
- Polsat Zdrowie i Uroda
- TVN (private, owned by ITI Group)
- TVN Siedem (private, owned by ITI Group)
- TVN24 (private, 24/7 news channel, owned by ITI Group)
- TVN Style - television for woman
- TVN Turbo - cars
- TVN Meteo - weather channel
- iTVN
- TV4 (private, owned by Zygmunt Solorz)
- TV Puls (owned by the Catholic Church and Zygmunt Solorz)
- TV Trwam (owned by the Catholic Church)
- PodróżeTV - travel channel
- Mango24 - shopping channel
- ITV - interactive channel
- 4fun.tv - interactive channel
- Many regional stations, both private and state owned (local state-owned TVP 3)
- Many satellite/cable thematical channels (Canal+ Polska, HBO, EuroSport, Discovery Channel and others)
Digital TV Platforms (all private)
- Cyfra+
- Polsat Digital (owned by Zygmunt Solorz)
Radio stations
Polskie Radio (state-owned)
- Program 1
- Program 2
- Program 3 (aka Trójka)
- Polskie Radio BIS
- Radio Parlament
- Radio Polonia
- 17 regional stations of Polskie Radio
Privately owned stations
- RMF FM
- Radio Zet
- Radio Maryja (strongly catholic)
- TOK FM (news and talk shows)
- Local radio stations
Press (all private)
Daily Papers
- Gazeta Wyborcza (centrist) http://www.wyborcza.pl
- Rzeczpospolita (right-wing) http://www.rp.pl (51% private, 49% state-owned)
- Super Express http://www.se.com.pl
- Życie (right-wing) http://www.zycie.com.pl
- Nasz Dziennik (far-right-wing) http://www.naszdziennik.pl
- Trybuna (left-wing) http://www.trybuna.com.pl
- Fakt http://www.efakt.pl
Weekly Magazines
- Najwyższy Czas! (right-wing) http://www.nczas.com
- Newsweek (Polish edition, right-wing) http://www.newsweek.pl
- Nie (left-wing) http://www.nie.com.pl
- Polityka (centrist) http://www.polityka.pl
- Przegląd (left-wing) http://www.przeglad.com.pl
- Przekrój (centrist) http://www.przekroj.pl
- Wprost (right-wing) http://www.wprost.pl