Fakty TVN
| Fakty TVN | |
|---|---|
| Genre | news |
| Created by |
Tomasz Lis Grzegorz Miecugow Grzegorz Jędrzejowski |
| Presented by |
Justyna Pochanke Grzegorz Kajdanowicz Anita Werner Piotr Marciniak |
| Theme music composer | Andrzej Smolik |
| Country of origin | Poland |
| Original language(s) | Polish |
| No. of episodes | 6142 (as of 25 October 2014[update]) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Media Business Centre, Warsaw |
| Editor(s) | Grzegorz Jędrzejowski, Mariusz Tchórzewski, Robert Jastrzębski, Maciej Słomczyński |
| Running time | 26 minutes (weekdays) 20 minutes (weekends) |
| Production company(s) | TVN S.A. |
| Distributor | TVN, TVN HD, TVN24 Biznes i Świat |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVN |
| Picture format | 1080i 16:9 |
| Audio format | stereo |
| Original release | 3 October 1997 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Fakty po Faktach Fakty po południu |
| External links | |
| www |
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Fakty TVN (usually referred to simply as Fakty meaning "The Facts" in Polish) is the flagship newscast of TVN, one of Poland's major television networks. The programme was launched on 3 October 1997, which was also the first day of the entire TVN. As of May 2009, it has an average audience of 3.2 million viewers, making it Poland's second most watched television newscast after TVP1's Wiadomości.
The programme was created by two former TVP journalists, Grzegorz Miecugow and Tomasz Lis, with Lis serving as its original main presenter. It was the first news programme in Polish television based on the North American concept of "anchor" where presenter does not simply read the text prepared by others but he or she has vital influence on the overall shape of the programme. For the first 8 months of its existence, it was broadcast at 19:30 which made it compete directly with its main rival Wiadomości. In May 1998 it was moved to its current time slot at 19:00, enabling viewers to watch both programmes. For the first few years it used to have four regional versions with local news (broadcast from Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk and Kraków) but eventually those were cancelled. From 1997 till 2004 the late evening version was produced (airing usually around 23:00) and from 2000 till 2007 there was also the afternoon edition (airing around 17:00). Since 2007 the main edition broadcast from Warsaw (with presenters travelling during exceptional events) has been the only one being aired.
In 2004 Lis was fired by TVN's management (following an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek in which when asked if he was interested in running for the President of Poland, he failed to give a clear "no"). He was replaced as main presenter by Bogdan Rymanowski. In the same year the programme's team was merged into TVN24, network's 24-hour news channel and the two started to share the newsroom and main studio. Fakty did retain some level of autonomy though, keeping its own staff headed by a separate Editor-in-Chief. Since Autumn 2004, the programme has had two main presenters, each of them fronting the weekday editions every second week. For the first 20 months since the change those were Justyna Pochanke and Bogdan Rymanowski. In May 2006 former Wiadomości star presenter Kamil Durczok took over as one of the main presenters (replacing Rymanowski who fronted his last edition two months earlier) and was also nominated Fakty's Editor-in-Chief.
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