The National
Broadcasting Council

The public radio and television broadcasting entities operate exclusively as wholly-owned State Treasury joint-stock companies.

Pursuant to Art. 64 section 1 of the Act on radio and television broadcasting, the Minister of State Treasury has been obliged to establish:

1) "Telewizja Polska – Spółka Akcyjna" with its registered office in Warsaw, and its regional divisions;

2) "Polskie Radio – Spółka Akcyjna" with its registered office in Warsaw;

3) regional radio broadcasting companies with their offices in Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Koszalin, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Olsztyn, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warsaw, Wrocław and Zielona Góra.

The Minister of State Treasury, who has been obliged to establish joint-stock companies, has therefore the responsibility to set out the statutes of such companies in consultation with the KRRiT.

Pursuant to Art. 26 section 2 of the Act on radio and television broadcasting, Public Television is created by "Telewizja Polska – Spółka Akcyjna", which has been founded in order to create and distribute the national Programme I and II, TV Polonia and regional television programming.

Pursuant to Art. 30 section 1, the creation and distribution of regional public television programming is the responsibility of regional divisions of "Telewizja Polska – Spółka Akcyjna".

The regional divisions of Telewizja Polska S.A. have their offices in Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Olsztyn, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warsaw and Wrocław.

Pursuant to Art. 26 section 3 of the Act on radio and television broadcasting, Public Radio is created by "Polskie Radio – Spółka Akcyjna", which has been founded in order to create and distribute national radio programming and programmes for foreign audiences, as well as by companies founded with the aim to create and distribute regional radio programming, which are referred to in the Act as regional radio broadcasting companies.

Pursuant to Art. 64 section 2 of the Act on radio and television broadcasting, "Polskie Radio – Spółka Akcyjna" has its registered office in Warsaw.

The regional radio broadcasting companies have their respective offices in Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Koszalin, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Olsztyn, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warsaw, Wrocław and Zielona Góra.