Telewizja Polska

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Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna

Type	television
Country	Poland
Availability	National
Launch date	1952
Website Official Site

Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna (TVP S.A., often abbreviated to only TVP, Polish Television) is Poland's 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.

Contents 1 Timeline 2 TVP Channels 2.1 Current 2.2 Planned channels 3 External links

[edit] Timeline

• 1935 – Państwowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (State Telecommunications Institute, PIT) starts working together with Polish Radio on establishing television service
• 1937 – completion of a black and white broadcasting station
• 1938, October – experimental channel, regular programming scheduled for 1941
• 1939, September – all the equipment destroyed by the German Army
• 1947 – PIT resumes work on television broadcasting
• 1951, December – first Polish telecast after the Second World War
• 1952, 25 October – beginning of a regular program
• 1971, 16 March – start of colour broadcasting (in SECAM)
• 1992, 29 December - Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna comes into existence upon the separation of television and radio public broadcasting by an act of parliament
• 1993 – 01 January 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

[edit] TVP Channels

[edit] Current

TVP broadcasts three general mainstream channels:

• TVP1,
• TVP2,
• TVP3 on 21 October 2007 rebrands to TVP Info.
• TVP Info, which acts as an umbrella label for the local stations:
  • TVP Białystok in Białystok for Podlachian region
  • TVP Bydgoszcz in Bydgoszcz-Toruń for the Kuyavia-Pomerania region
  • TVP Gdańsk in Trójmiasto for the Pomerania region,
  • TVP Gorzów in Gorzów Wielkopolski for Lubusz region
  • TVP Katowice in Silesian Metropolitan Area for Upper Silesia 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

And four specialty channels:

• TVP Kultura - high-brow culture channel, available on cable, satellite and DSL
• TVP Sport - sport channel available on cable, satellite and DSL
• TVP Historia - focusing on history
• TV 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.
• Belsat TV - channel in the Belarusian language presenting news and interesting programming for the people of Belarus

[edit] Planned channels

• TVP Dokument - focusing on documentary
• TVP Rozrywka - entertainment and comedy
• TVP Film - movie channel
• TVP Nauka - science channel
• TVP Parlament - parliamentary channel
• TVP HD - HD channel

[edit] External links

• Official Site (Polish)

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