“Lex Pilot” – TVP Channels as Mandatory. Czarzasty: That’s Half a Million Additional Votes for PiS
The government wants to amend the Broadcasting Act. The “Lex Pilot” Act assumes that the following channels must be included in the offer of pay-TV operators on the first five channels: TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, TVP Kultura, and TVP Info, and the next ones according to the regulation of the National Broadcasting Council. In addition, satellite platforms would have to provide not only TVP3 Warszawa (as is currently the case) but all 16 regional channels of TVP3.
TVP wants to take over the pilots. “Elections are coming, and it’s so poor that you must add more.”
– Placing five TVP stations on each television is like printing a booklet in local government elections and placing a party of little importance on its front page – said Włodzimierz Czarzasty, deputy speaker of the Sejm and member of the Left, in Poranna Rozmowa Gazeta.pl. A former member of the National Broadcasting Council (1999-2005) estimated that by making this move, PiS would gain 500,000 votes in the election. additional votes.
During the interview, Włodzimierz Czarzasty also commented on the decision to allocate an additional PLN 700 million to TVP. Law and Justice MPs decided last week at a parliamentary finance committee meeting to increase the subsidy. This means a stream of money reaching approximately PLN 2.7 billion will flow from the state coffers to the public media’. – Money for TVP was found because elections are coming, and it is so poor that you have to add more money – said Włodzimierz Czarzasty in an interview with Gazeta.pl.
TVP on the first five buttons. PiS wants to reprogram TV remote controls
Pursuant to the “must carry, must offer” rule, pay-TV operators must offer the following stations: TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, Polsat, TVN, TV4, and TV Puls. The government wants to amend this list by removing a few items and introducing new ones. Then only five channels will remain: TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, TVP Kultura, and TVP Info, and the chairman of the National Broadcasting Council will indicate the remaining stations after consultations. This means that TVP stations would necessarily occupy the first positions on the set-top boxes of pay TV operators.
– I am glad that there is an act in the government on the implementation of the European Code of Electronic Communications, the adoption of which may cause\all of you will have the remote control on the third channel the 3rd channel of Telewizja Polska and the territorially appropriate signal of a given center. Unlike today in Polsat, which is on the 68th channel of TVP3 Warszawa in Bialystok in SD format. It will be in HD; the correct territorial number is 3. I really hope this will happen – said the then-president of TVP, Jacek Kurski, in June 2022. He also drew attention to the issue of the upcoming local government elections. – Local information is very important for it to reach Poles – he said.