The revolution in public media began on December 20. Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz dismissed the presidents of Polish Television, Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency. The new management boards of the companies were elected by the new supervisory boards appointed by the minister. Less than an hour after the announcement of the Ministry of Culture, TVP Info and TVP3 stopped broadcasting (instead, TVP1 and TVP2 started broadcasting). A few minutes later, the station's website also disappeared. On December 27, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage decided to stage them in liquidation.
However, the leadership of the TV News Agency, removed by the new government, retained control over the YouTube channel TVP Info. After December 20, several materials appeared there criticizing the changes in the company. The channel had 361,000 views. Subscriber and about 30 thousand published there content recorded a total of more than 365 million views. It has been operating for more than 10 years. Now it has disappeared from the platform.
TVP information disappears from YouTube. It is already under the control of the new government
The TVP Info channel disappeared from YouTube on Monday afternoon. Now it says “this channel is not available”.
“Several years of reporting, several hundreds of thousands of subscribers and several tens of thousands of videos with millions of views. The new government today closed TVP Info on YouTube,” said Samuel Pereira, former deputy director of the TV News Agency. X platform.
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Radoslav Poshvinsky, who in the previous edition of TVP Info, commented on this matter in more detail, among others. for social media.
“Only 2 people have permission to run the account, but every video you upload disappears from the feed. You watch and suddenly the entire video page has changed settings from public to private,” he wrote on X.
“You change it to public and upload another video. Suddenly, while loading, you see that someone is deleting your upload, but it's okay, it turns out that suddenly 1500 people changed the visibility status of your latest video from public to private! Finally, you log into your account with your login and using the password and see that your account has been restored and its name has been changed to YT125141, but the logo remains,” he added.
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TVP Info's new management still has no passwords to the station's account on Platform X (formerly Twitter), which has 857,000 followers. customers.
The channel remains under the control of the previous TAI government, and in the background of the photo is a graphic with the slogan “Attack on public media”. In Telewizja Polska there are critical posts about new programs and personnel changes. Sometimes they are also published Michal Adamchik's statementwho was appointed as the president of TVP by the National Media Council at the end of December.
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