Takeover TVN Several Polish billionaires are said to be interested, but… PIS will try to play a different game. It is about purchasing a station from ul. Wiertnicza by a friendly investor from Hungary.
PiS sharpens its teeth on TVN. Obajtek as president?
“American owner TVN, Warner Bros. concern Discovery has huge problems. To put it simply: TVN will go under the hammer,” he writes “Newsweek”who adds that the president's position at this station is Daniel Obajtek's great dream. In February, he said, among other things, that he would do “financial assembly” to… buy TVNand then tried to turn it into a joke. However, his statement on Thursday may prove that something is going on he went to the Supreme Audit Office for questioning regarding merger Orlen and Lotus and the agreement for the sale of shares in Refineria Gdańska to Aramco. He then entered into an exchange of words with a TVN24 journalist. -We will meet more often, but soon at your place. I will go there as if it were my home, said the former head of Orlen and now an MEP PIS.
Will Trump give the green light to TVN? There is Hungarian business in the background
According to “Newsweek” PiS politicians are counting on Donald Trump's future government to take over TVN. “It is certain that as long as Biden was in power, the American administration informally advised Warner Bros. Discovery against selling TVN to Russian Hungarians. However, from January, Trump, Orban's friend and Putin's psycho, will be in power. And this opens up a unique opportunity for PiS to take over TVN with the support of or at least the approval of the White House,” we read in the “Newsweek” article, which reminds that “Orban's supporters have already been attacking the Polish media.” TV2 Media took part in the recent competition for a place on the multiplex, and Mateusz Morawiecki was said to have lobbied strongly for Hungary. The information about Hungarian overtures regarding TVN was supposed to cause “a panic in the ruling camp.” Its representatives were to contact Joe Biden's team to warn against such a transaction.
In August, we reported on Next.gazeta.pl about huge problems of Warner Bros. Discovery. The published financial report showed, among other things, that the media giant's revenues decreased and a net loss reached $10 billion. “Financial Times” stated then that due to the deteriorating financial situation, the concern was considering separating companies. Another option is the sale of smaller company assets, including the sale of TVN.