On Friday, September 27, the Finance Committee gave a positive opinion application Minister of Finance regarding changing the allocation of PLN 700 million from specific reserves planned in the 2024 budget. 17 MPs voted for the motion, 13 were against.
– Changing the allocation of funds in the reserves will not disrupt the implementation of the tasks for which the funds in these reserves were planned – assured the Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Finance Hanna Majszczyk, quoted by PAP.
PLN 700 million from reserves for TVP and Polish Radio. The parliamentary committee supported the motion
The chairman of the committee, Janusz Cichoń from the Civic Coalition, said it had been redirected money are to go to “Polish Television SA in liquidation and Polskie Radio SA in liquidation and regional broadcasting stations of Polskie Radio SA in liquidation in order to ensure continued co-financing of statutory tasks related to the implementation of the public mission in 2024, specified in Article 21 of the Broadcasting Act. Culture and National Heritage Wojciech Kwiatkowski said that the ministry transferred PLN 132 million to public broadcasters “out of savings”.
We know how much money TVP and Polskie Radio received in 2024.
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced at the end of August that so far thing The amount of PLN 1.02 billion was transferred to TVP in 2024, PLN 145.3 million to Polish Radio, and PLN 109.7 million to regional public radio stations. These were subsidies obtained by the ministry from the general reserve and from special-purpose reserves from the state budget – the website calculated. virtualmedia.pl.
The amounts are much smaller than in recent years. In 2023, Telewizja Polska alone received a record PLN 2.67 billion from RTV license fees and subscription compensation, of which the compensation itself amounted to PLN 2.35 billion.