TV Trwam

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TV Trwam
Station logo
TV station ( private law )
Program type Specialized program (religion)
reception Cable , satellite
Image resolution 16: 9 / 4: 3 ( SDTV )
Start of transmission June 12, 2003
language Polish
Seat Toruń ( Poland )
owner Fundacja Lux Veritatis
List of TV channels
Website

TV Trwam (German: I hold on / I persevere / I remain ) is a Catholic television program that has existed in Poland since June 12, 2003 and is supported by the Fundacja Lux Veritatis Foundation . The station is founded by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk of the Redemptorist Order, who is also heavily involved in the management of Radio Maryja . The program content of both multipliers is similar, is broadcast in Polish and is aimed at Catholic-Conservative recipients at home and abroad via cable, satellite and the Internet.

The criticism of the program content (not only from left and liberal circles) is directed, similar to Radio Maryja, on the national conservative , anti-Semitic and xenophobic tendencies in TV Trwam. Another point of criticism is the one-sided reporting and programming in favor of the national-conservative PiS , and not only during the election campaign for the Sejm elections in October 2007.

The station had an average audience rating of 0.15% between January and April 2007 , most viewers are over 50, female and come from small and medium-sized locations.

The station can be received via satellite in Europe and North America, worldwide via Internet stream and is fed into Polish cable networks.

In January 2012 the Polish Broadcasting Council TV Trwam refused the license for broadcasting in DVB-T, which will start in summer 2013 . The reason is that the largest part of the station's assets is a loan from the Polish Redemptorist Province, for which no repayment date was specified. It is therefore unclear whether the annual costs for the digital frequency can be borne. Reports that the lack of a terrestrial license would also mean that cable TV broadcasts would have to be discontinued were denied. On April 21, 2012, 20,000 people demonstrated in Warsaw against the rejection of a terrestrial digital frequency. Further demonstrations have been announced.

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Footnotes

  1. from the Polish verb trwać
  2. Final decision: No license for the Polish station “Trwam” , religion.orf.at, January 18, 2012
  3. More than 20,000 Poles demonstrate for Catholic TV stations , religion.orf.at, April 23, 2012