Polish public broadcasting organization
Polish Radio
Logo used since 2005, updated in 2017
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Native name
| Polskie Radio S.A.
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Company type
| Sole-shareholder company of the
State Treasury
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Industry
| Mass media
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Founded
| 18 August 1925
(
1925-08-18
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Founder
| Zygmunt Chamiec and Tadeusz Sułowski
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Headquarters
| Al. Niepodległo?ci 77/85, 00?977
Warsaw
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Area served
| Poland
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Key people
| Paweł Majcher (general director)
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Products
| Broadcasting, radio,
web portals
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Services
| Radio broadcasting
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Website
| polskieradio
.pl
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The
Polish Radio
(PR;
Polish
:
Polskie Radio
, PR) is a national
public-service
radio
broadcasting organization of
Poland
, 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.
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History
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Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts from
Warsaw
on 18 April 1926.
Before the
Second World War
, Polish Radio operated one national channel ? broadcast from 1931 from one of Europe's most powerful
longwave
transmitters, situated at
Raszyn
just outside Warsaw and destroyed in 1939 due to invasion of
German Army
? and nine regional stations:
- Krakow
from 15 February 1927
- Pozna?
from 24 April 1927
- Katowice
from 4 December 1927
- Wilno
from 15 January 1928
- Lwow
from 15 January 1930
- Łod?
from 2 February 1930
- Toru?
from 15 January 1935
- Warszawa
from 1 March 1937 ? known as Warszawa II, the national channel becoming Warszawa I from this date
- Baranowicze
from 1 July 1938
A tenth regional station was planned for
Łuck
, but the outbreak of war meant that it never opened.
The
invasion of Poland
by
Nazi Germany
and the
Soviet Union
led to the destruction of the network in September 1939, with its final broadcast being a performance of
Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.
by
Władysław Szpilman
. Years later, Szpilman played the same piece for the reopening of the station.
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After the war, Polskie Radio was reconstructed with the assistance of the Soviet
Red Army
, which valued radio as a propaganda medium.
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It came under the tutelage of the state public broadcasting body
Komitet do Spraw Radiofonii
"Polskie Radio" (later "Polskie Radio i Telewizja" ? PRT, Polish Radio and Television). This body was dissolved in 1992, Polskie Radio S.A. and
Telewizja Polska
S.A. becoming politically dependent corporations, each of which was admitted to full active membership of the
European Broadcasting Union
on 1 January 1993 with the merger of EBU and
OIRT
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Channels
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National
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Regional stations
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Polskie Radio also operates 17 regional radio stations (operating on FM and DAB+), located in:
City stations
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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 via
DAB+
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Digital-only
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Polskie Radio also offers regional digital-only stations (all operating in Internet and DAB+ only) in:
International
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Music charts
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Polskie Radio Trojka 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.
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Notable people associated with Polskie Radio
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Czesław Miłosz
, recipient of the 1980
Nobel Prize in Literature
, worked as a literary programmer at
Polish Radio Wilno
in 1936.
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See also
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Flagship commercial radio stations in Poland:
References
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External links
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