Media in Poland

About media in Poland more information on EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE RADIO & TV There are around 250 national and regional radio stations and about 70 television stations in Poland. The most important sector of the audio-visual market is public radio (Polskie Radio S.A.) and public television (TVP S.A.). Public television operates two national channels with 11 regional offices broadcasting local programming. TV Polonia is a special satellite channel, which broadcasts abroad.Competition for public television comes from the national commercial channels. These are Polsat TV, TVN (ITI Holdings) and Channel 4. TVN also includes a 24 hour information channel. There is also Catholic Puls TV, coded RTL 7, Canal Plus, and Wizja TV (the last two merged to form the digital Cyfra + Platform), and about 500 cable television operators with more than 2 million subscribers. The cable operators are obliged by law to transmit two public channels. The biggest competitors for public radio are the national commercial stations: RMF FM Radio and ZET Radio. An interesting phenomenon on the market is the controversial Catholic station Maryja Radio from Torun, which is financed by donations. There is also a moderate Catholic alternative to Radio Maryja, the network of regional dioceses' stations - Plus Programme Alliance. Radio links:Polish Radio S.A, RMF FMRadio Zet, Radio Maryja TV links: TVP S.A., POLSAT, TVN, TV 4, Canal+, Cyfra+, Puls TV PRESS You can find about 5500 periodicals on the Polish print media market . The national dailies have maintained their strong position on the market - total circulation of the 16 Polish national dailies is about four million copies. Gazeta Wyborcza, printed in tabloid format, is one of the most widely read daily newspapers in Poland. The other top dailies are the broadsheet Rzeczpospolita (circulation about 260,000; 7 per cent of the dailies market), the tabloid Super Express (circulation about 500,000; 14 per cent of the market), Dziennik Sportowy, the fundamental Catholic newspaper Nasz Dziennik and the leftist Trybuna. Poland also has 78 regional dailies and a strong, steadily growing magazine sector. The major magazines are owned by foreign concerns: Gruner & Jahr/Bertelsmann, Axel Springer, H. Bauer, Hachette Filipacchi. However, there are also local publishers, including Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa WPROST, Proszynski i S-ka and POLITYKA Spoldzielnia Pracy. Press links: Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Superexpress, Przeglad Sportowy, Nasz Dziennik, Trybuna, Nowy Dziennik, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Twoj Styl, Pani, Claudia, Polityka, WPROST, Newsweek, FORUM Press agencies: PAP,PAI,KAI English language weeklies:Warsaw Business Journal, Warsaw Voice INTERNET The Internet is becoming a very important player on the Polish media market. The biggest and the most successful Polish portal is onet.pl (ITI Holdings), which attracts about 43 per cent of the market. In March 2002, Onet.pl has recorded 5,065, 260 users and 760,171,857 visits. The other portals are Wirtualna Polska (23 per cent of the market) and Interia (9 per cent). The Polish Episcopate established the Opoka Foundation, which launched the Catholic portal Opoka. There are also numerous special interest Internet magazines and web sites. Among them is the Internet press review Newspaper.pl. Portals: Onet.pl, Wirtualna Polska, Interia, Opoka, Polski Internet, Cyberexpress

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