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 Polish Radio's headquarters in Warsaw | |
Native name | Polskie Radio S.A. w likwidacji |
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| Company type | Sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury [simple] |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 18 August 1925; 100 years ago (1925-08-18) |
| Founder | Zygmunt Chamiec and Tadeusz Sułowski |
| Headquarters | Al. Niepodległości 77/85, 00–977Warsaw , |
Area served | Poland |
Key people | Paweł Majcher (general director) |
| Products | Broadcasting, radio,web portals |
| Services | Radio broadcasting |
| Website | polskieradio |
ThePolish Radio (PR;Polish:Polskie Radio, PR) is a nationalpublic-serviceradio broadcasting organization ofPoland, founded in 1925. It is owned by the State Treasury of Poland. On 27 December 2023, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, due to the President's veto on the financing of the company, placed it in liquidation.[1]
Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts fromWarsaw on 18 April 1926. Before theSecond World War, Polish Radio operated one national channel – broadcast from 1931 from one of Europe's most powerfullongwave transmitters situated atRaszyn (just outsideWarsaw) and destroyed in 1939 due to invasion ofGerman Army.
Polskie Radio was also broadcast on nine regional stations -Kraków from 15 February 1927,Poznań from 24 April 1927, andKatowice from 4 December 1927.Wilno joined the network from 15 January 1928. In 1930, regional stations broadcast fromLwów from 15 January 1930and fromŁódź from 2 February 1930.Toruń followed from 15 January 1935, withWarszawa broadcasting from 1 March 1937 – known as Warszawa II, the national channel becoming Warszawa I from this date.Baranowicze finally broadcast as the ninth regional station from 1 July 1938.
A tenth regional station was planned forŁuck, but the outbreak of war meant that it never opened[citation needed]. Out of notable people for the time,Czesław Miłosz, recipient of the 1980Nobel Prize in Literature, worked as a literary programmer atPolish Radio Wilno in 1936.[2]
Theinvasion of Poland byNazi Germany and theSoviet Union led to the destruction of the network in September 1939, with its final broadcast being a performance ofNocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. byWładysław Szpilman. Years later, Szpilman played the same piece for the reopening of the station.[3]
Polskie Radio Trójka has been compiling Polish music charts since 1982 – in an era before there were any commercial sales or airplay rankings – making them a significant record of musical popularity in Poland. Chart archives dating from 1982 are available to the public via the station's website.[4]
After the war, Polskie Radio was reconstructed with the assistance of the SovietRed Army, which valued radio as a propaganda medium.[3] It came under the tutelage of the state public broadcasting bodyKomitet do Spraw Radiofonii "Polskie Radio" (later "Polskie Radio i Telewizja" – PRT,Polish Radio and Television).
This body was dissolved in 1992, Polskie RadioS.A. andTelewizja Polska S.A. becoming politically dependent corporations, each of which was admitted to full active membership of theEuropean Broadcasting Union on 1 January 1993 with the merger of EBU andOIRT.
Since 2001, Polskie Radio, jointly withTelewizja Polska, hold the"Dwa Teatry" Festival" (Polish:Two Theaters), an annual festival showcasing theirtelevision andradio plays. During the closing ceremony, awards are presented in several categories, recognizing the best productions and acting performances.[5][6]
Polskie Radio also operates 17 regional radio stations (operating on FM and DAB+), located in:
Polskie Radio offers city stations in:
All city stations but Radio Szczecin Extra are being broadcast on FM and in Internet, while Radio Szczecin Extra is available only in Internet and viaDAB+.
Polskie Radio also offers regional digital-only stations (all operating in Internet and DAB+ only) in:
On 29 October 2024, OFF Radio Krakow released a programme that presented itself as an interview with laureateWisława Szymborska who had died in 2012 thus her voice beingartificially generated; this was not long after its entire editorial team was dismissed. This was met with outrage with audiences voicing support for the dismissed crew as well as the signing of a petition against the move with more than 15,000 names in.[17][18]
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