Sołowow is fighting for TVN: “Gazeta Wyborcza” announced that the richest Pole Michał Sołowow submitted the highest offer to buy TVN. According to the newspaper, this is currently the main favorite in the race for the purchase of TVN. – We submitted an non -binding offer, considering that this is a kind of transaction we should respond positively – said spokesman Michał Sołowo in an interview with Bloomberg. Sołowowa's offer is the best, but The owner of TVN counts on more, so it is not known whether such an offer will be accepted.
Who else wants to buy TVN? The group also expressed the desire to buy TVN Wirtualna Polska Holding in a consortium. As we wrote earlier, a media group can join this group Ringier Axel Springer (RASP) with the CVC Capital Partners fund. CVC is the main shareholder of Żabka, Stock Spirits and investor Comarch. In turn, RASP owns, among others Onet and “Fakt”.
Station sales details: Estimated value of TVN sales transaction is About EUR 1 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) proposes for sale Three packages: TVN (all stations with this logo, including TVN24), thematic channels (stations under the Warner Bros. Discovery license, e.g. TLC, Discovery Channel, HGTV, etc.) and Canal+ Poland – via TVN Media, Warner Bros (Discovery is the owner of 32 percent of shares. Unofficial information shows that Michał Sołowow is interested in TVN and thematic channels. Virtual Poland is interested in TVN itself. It is known that it is known that it is known that Warner Bros. Discovery is to wait two more weeks for binding offers.
List of strategic companies: Let us remind you that Prime Minister Donald Tusk in December 2024 decided on Entering TVN and Telewizja Polsat on the list of strategic companies. In this way, the Polish government can, among others block transactions involving these companies. The prime minister was to take advantage of his powers and block the possibility of selling TVN suspected of cooperation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the Hungarian media group TV2.
More You can read about this in the article: “A new player enters the game about TVN. In a duet with the owner of Żabka, he circulates over the drilling“.
Sources: Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta.pl