Telewizja Trwam
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TV Trwam is a Polish TV channel located in Toruń
Torun
Toruń is an ancient city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population is more than 205,934 as of June 2009. Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland. The medieval old town of Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus....

, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, belongs to the Lux Veritatis Foundation. The station is owned by the Warsaw Province of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer is a Roman Catholic missionary Congregation founded by Saint Alphonsus Liguori at Scala, near Amalfi, Italy for the purpose of labouring among the neglected country people in the neighbourhood of Naples.Members of the Congregation, priests and brothers,...

, and is financed through donations from its audience - "The Radio Maryja Family"; this is unlike most Polish television stations which are either publicly funded or dependent on advertising revenue. Due to a concordat with the Vatican that grants certain privileges to the Church, TV Trwam is not bound by normal accounting rules as it is regarded as being Church operated.

Distribution

TV Trwam is available in many countries around the world via cable or satellite, including: the United States
United States
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, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Canada
Canada
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, Italy
Italy
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 and Switzerland
Switzerland
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. It is also transmitted free to air from Astra 1KR
Astra 1KR
Astra 1KR is a geostationary satellite owned by SES Astra. It was launched in April 2006 as a replacement for Astra 1K, which failed to reach orbit on launch in 2002...

 satellite in Europe
Europe
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 and AMC-4 satellite in North America
North America
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.

History

The station has its television studios in Toruń
Torun
Toruń is an ancient city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population is more than 205,934 as of June 2009. Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland. The medieval old town of Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus....

 and Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. The TV Trwam television studio is the second largest in the country (over 700 sq meters). TV Trwam received its license on 13 February 2003 and launched its terrestrial broadcast 13 May 2003, as well as regular broadcasting via satellite.

Television Trwam motto is: "a means of social communication, not media manipulation." Station is funded mainly from donations of viewers, listeners of Radio Maryja
Radio Maryja
Radio Maryja is a Polish religious, conservative, anti-post-Communist and pro-life Roman Catholic radio station and media group, describing itself as patriotic. It was founded in Toruń, Poland, on December 9, 1991 and has been run since its inception by the Redemptorist rector doctor Tadeusz...

, and readers of "Nasz Dziennik
Nasz Dziennik
Nasz Dziennik is a Polish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw since 1998 by Spes Ltd., with the circulation of about 150,000 as of 2007. Alternate sources have listed its 1999 circulation at 250,000; and its 1998 readership at 600,000...

" (Polish for Our Journal), as well as from the sale of sets of satellite television receivers. In contrast to Radio Maryja, TV Trwam not have the status of "public broadcaster" and can place ads.

Father Tadeusz Rydzyk (CSSR), the founder and director of TV TRWAM Television Trwam program is often in line with the Radio Maryja program. Are regularly screened live on television news "Information of the Day" from the Warsaw studies at TV Trwam. 16.00, 18.05, 20.00, 21.20. Television has its own teletext
Teletext
Teletext is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules...

 "TRWAM-TEXT."
The station broadcasts news and social affairs, political, religious (Masses, prayers and prayer), information programs, music videos and Christian drama.
18:00 transmitted prayer is the angel of the chapel Trwam Television and Radio Maryja.
18:15 broadcasts are "Unfinished Conversations", in which guests are often members of the clergy, scholars, believers and well-known Polish politicians.
Every day in the chair. 20:20 Rosary prayer is coming from the chapel Television Trwam and Radio Maryja
Radio Maryja
Radio Maryja is a Polish religious, conservative, anti-post-Communist and pro-life Roman Catholic radio station and media group, describing itself as patriotic. It was founded in Toruń, Poland, on December 9, 1991 and has been run since its inception by the Redemptorist rector doctor Tadeusz...

. Immediately after its completion is issued at par. 20:50, including Stanisław Michalkiewicz, Piotr Jaroszyński, or of any other columnists cooperating with Trwam Television, Radio Maryja and our Dziennikiem.
Through TV Trwam daily hours, 21:00 comes at "Apel Jasnogórski" of Jasna Gora.

Stanislaw Michalkiewicz
Stanislaw Michalkiewicz
Stanisław Michalkiewicz is a Polish liberal conservative political commentator, lawyer and politician.He graduated in 1969 from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University with a law degree...

 is one of the most well-known journalists working for Radio Maryja, TV Trwam, and Nasz Dziennik
A monthly program titled "The past month" with the participation of Professor Jerzy Robert Nowak, in which he covers political and cultural events during the month.
On 6 May 2007, TV Trwam launched a regular weekly Mass broadcast. Sunday from the Chapel of Our Lady at Jasna Gora at 9:30 am.
In July 2007 daily from Monday to Thursday in the chair. 21:40 on-air broadcast TV Trwam is the "Polish point of view" (Polski punkt widzenia) in which it deals with current political and social events with Dariusz Pogorzelski, Robert Knap and Klaudiusz Pobudzin.

See also

  • Radio Maryja
    Radio Maryja
    Radio Maryja is a Polish religious, conservative, anti-post-Communist and pro-life Roman Catholic radio station and media group, describing itself as patriotic. It was founded in Toruń, Poland, on December 9, 1991 and has been run since its inception by the Redemptorist rector doctor Tadeusz...

  • Nasz Dziennik
    Nasz Dziennik
    Nasz Dziennik is a Polish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw since 1998 by Spes Ltd., with the circulation of about 150,000 as of 2007. Alternate sources have listed its 1999 circulation at 250,000; and its 1998 readership at 600,000...

  • Tadeusz Rydzyk
    Tadeusz Rydzyk
    Tadeusz Rydzyk , born May 3, 1945 in Olkusz, Poland, is a Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist, creator and head of the conservative and controversial Radio Maryja radio station, rector and doctor of the University of Social and Medial Culture in Toruń....

  • Politics of Poland
    Politics of Poland
    The politics of Poland take place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government of a multi-party system and the President is the head of state....

  • Media in Poland
    Media in Poland
    - Media and politics :Poland has instituted freedom of press since the fall of communism. However, public TV and radio are still politically controlled, via...

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