02-04-2015

Poland’s TVN Creates Two More New Channels

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    WARSAW: TVN, a privately owned TV broadcaster in Poland, is planning to add two new channels from 16 April 2015. TVN Meteo Active will focus on lifestyle programmes while TVN Fabuła will offer films and TV series.

    TVN Fabuła will offer TVN's own products and acquired films and series. It will feature daily original shows for cinema lovers with entertainment news, movie premieres, red carpet events, celebrity gossip and stars. Maciej Świerzawski has been named head of TVN Fabuła. Swierzawski has worked as a TV director and producer and has served as an assistant director to Agnieszka Holland, Steven Spielberg and Jerzy Stuhr. He has been working for TVN since 1997.

    U.S. media group Scripps Networks Interactive recently agreed to buy a majority stake in the Polish broadcaster TVN for 584m EUR. Scripps, which owns the Travel Channel and the Food Network, is based in Knoxville, Tennessee. It expanded into Europe in 2011 through a joint venture in Britain with BBC Worldwide