Polish TV says the controversy surrounding the “W” hour – Onet.pl

TVP spokesman Jacek Rakowiecki explains in a statement:

“Due to the controversy of shares of worship anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising with 70-second silence in the media in an hour ‘W’ or 17:00 in the TVP does not take part, explain that TVP has never disputed the reasonableness of the action (…). TVP1 news program ‘Teleexspress’ more than 20 years as the only broadcaster in Poland point 17:00 1 August emit the image from the streets of Warsaw, showing the pause traffic on the streets. Resignation from this tradition would be incomprehensible to the viewer. therefore TVP decided it – in a major, because the 70th anniversary – to expand. As a result minute silence in Warsaw will not only “Teleexspress” in TVP1, but also TVP Historia, TVP Polonia, TVP Regional (ie all 16 regional antennas in Poland), and TVP INFO will also halt traffic at ‘W’ not only in the capital but also other Polish cities.

TVP 2 at the time and gave will live the relationship with the plan for the new series of ‘Time of honor’, is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising, and the crew of the show also will stop its work on the symbolic 60 seconds.

TVP is convinced that this form commemorate the anniversary is the most appropriate for the public broadcaster. It is – what you need to remember – a fragment of our vast and totally unique programming dedicated to the events of 70 years ago: almost 50 hours of video, current affairs programs, relationships and transmission of broadcast from 31 July to 2 August at nine Antennae Television. “

In his statement, TVP stresses that the only broadcaster in every year commemorates the memory of the uprising.

“TVP and never questioned the good intentions of the initiators of the action. On the contrary, it seems to us that this action is not a good option for all those TV stations that successive anniversaries of the Warsaw Uprising were not interested, and this year also did not plan therefore any programming.

From the beginning, however, the originators reported that an attempt to introduce an identical scenario for all media shares is risky. Why else because of the stock TVP1 has to break with 20 years of tradition and the viewer is to be deprived of watching live as sirens responding Warsaw street

only we expressed surprise at the fact that the part of the media has consistently failed to give any information about our anniversary program offer many viewers and focused only on information that TVP “refused to participate” in action 70 seconds, of which was to show that the anniversary in general we are not interested “.