Telewizja Polska

Polish public service broadcaster

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February 3 2025 Slava media platform begins editorial work, preparing for future broadcasting.
December 3 2024 Vot Tak becomes a separate Russian-language editorial section within TVP's new 'Ośrodek Mediów dla Zagranicy' structure.
November 2024 TVP Stream service begins redirecting all clickable links to Na Źywo in TVP VOD, signaling the imminent closure of the TVP Stream platform.
February 2024 TVP Parlament brand discontinued, replaced by TVP Info brand for parliamentary session broadcasts
2023 Following a change in government, a TVP host formally apologized to the LGBT community for previous attacks broadcast against them.
2023 European media designated TVP as a 'propaganda arm' of PiS in the run-up to the Polish parliamentary election.
2023 Following the electoral victory of the opposition party Civic Platform, a new Minister of Culture began restructuring the broadcaster and its news segment.
December 27 2023 The Minister of Culture and National Heritage placed TVP in liquidation due to the President's veto on the company's financing.
December 21 2023 TVP broadcast its first evening news bulletin at 19:30 with a new team of journalists under the title '19.30'.
December 20 2023 Major restructuring of news operations: TVP Info, TVP3, TVP Parlament, and TVP World are placed on temporary hiatus.
December 19 2023 Multiple regional TVP3 channels (Białystok, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Olsztyn, Rzeszów) introduced Full HD broadcasting
December 19 2023 The Sejm passed a resolution to 'restore the legal order and impartiality of public media' with 244 votes in favor. Minister of Culture Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz simultaneously dismissed the authorities of public media.
December 15 2023 Multiple regional TVP3 channels (Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Katowice, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Szczecin, Wrocław) introduced Full HD broadcasting
June 1 2023 Linear TV-channels return to the TVP VOD service after previously disappearing following the October 2022 restart.
February 27 2023 TVP Historia channel introduced Full HD broadcasting
2022 TVP eSzkoła Domowe Przedszkole was replaced by TVP ABC 2.
2022 TVP Nauka channel was launched.
December 20 2022 An unnamed teenager's channel started Full HD broadcasting
October 2022 TVP VOD undergoes a restart, beginning to produce premieres specifically for the streaming service.
October 3 2022 An unnamed science and nature channel started Full HD broadcasting
March 28 2022 TVP ABC children's channel introduced Full HD broadcasting
February 23 2022 TVP Rozrywka channel introduced Full HD broadcasting
February 17 2022 Belsat channel introduces Full HD broadcasting.
February 15 2022 TVP3 Warszawa introduced Full HD broadcasting
2021 Poland IN was replaced by TVP World. TVP eSzkoła and TVP Telewizja Naziemna were discontinued.
November 18 2021 TVP World begins broadcasting in Full HD, featuring English-language news with a Central and Eastern European focus.
September 10 2021 Polish-language channel for Vilnius region introduces Full HD broadcasting.
March 8 2021 TVP Kobieta channel started broadcasting.
March 8 2021 An unnamed channel focusing on programmes for women started Full HD broadcasting
February 2021 TVP's 'Wiadomości' news program became the second most popular news program in Poland, with an average daily viewership of 2.41 million viewers.
2020 TVP eSzkoła and TVP Dokument channels are founded.
2020 Two educational channels were introduced during the pandemic: TVP eSzkoła and TVP eSzkoła Domowe Przedszkole. TVP Telewizja Naziemna was also launched.
2020 TVP was ordered to retract the documentary 'Inwazja', which was found to defame the Campaign Against Homophobia and spread harmful stereotypes about the LGBT community.
2020 TVP was criticized for broadcasting an antisemitic segment questioning Rafał Trzaskowski's stance on Jewish demands during the Polish presidential election. The complaint was supported by the American Jewish Committee and other Jewish organizations.
November 19 2020 TVP Dokument channel started Full HD broadcasting
September 2020 TVP's 'Wiadomości' news program was the most popular news program in Poland, attracting an average of 2.66 million viewers daily.
September 1 2020 TVP Polonia introduces Full HD broadcasting.
March 2020 Initiated the 'Szkoła z TVP' project in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education during the COVID pandemic.
2019 During the European Parliament elections, TVP ran 105 election segments, with 68 of 69 positive segments focusing on the ruling party and all 33 segments about the opposition being negative.
October 23 2019 TVP Kultura channel introduced Full HD broadcasting
September 17 2019 TVP Wilno channel for Poles living in Lithuania began broadcasting.
January 2019 Reporters Without Borders blamed TVP's 'hate propaganda' for contributing to the murder of Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz.
2018 Poland IN, an English-language online platform, was launched.
2018 Telewizja Polska started broadcasting in 4K quality under the name TVP 4K.
2017 TVP triggered a hate campaign against Polsat journalist Dorota Bawolek after she asked a question about judicial reform in Brussels, resulting in death threats against her. The European Commission and Council of Europe condemned the online hate campaign.
June 5 2017 Vot Tak television and multimedia platform begins broadcasting, targeting Russian-language audiences.
2016 TVP Regionalna (second version) was replaced by TVP3 (second version).
September 30 2016 TVP Info channel introduced Full HD broadcasting
July 2016 Politico.eu criticized TVP for strong pro-government bias.
January 2016 ARTE again cancelled cooperation with TVP following an amendment to Polish media law, expressing concerns about potential lack of pluralism and independence in the television network.

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