SURVEY OF POLISH BROADCASTING, 1948; WARSAW BEAMS GERMAN-LANGUAGE PROGRAMS

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• Publication Date: January 7, 1952
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CLASSIFICATION .E~URI~TYSTINFORMATIGNIIE~ITRICTE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
INFO'ZMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUME.~TS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N0.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Eeonomic -Communications, rsdio
HOW
PUBLISHED Book; weekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Warasx, Frankfurt/basin
DAT=
PUBLISHED 1948, 27 May 1951
LANGUAGE Polish
nu oocrurr cerow nra~unor unrnre m unou~ ovam
or rra ramo mraa nmr rra ruuu or arneura rcr re
r. e. c.. O are u.u uuno. m nuuunor w rrr rnaunor
or m cornet u m uuu ro ?r nermonxu ruaor a rro-
wets n ur. urworrnor or nu ron a .rerunro.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1948, 1951
DATE DIST. '~ Jan 1952
N0. OF PAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SIiRVEY OF FOLZSH BROAIk:ASTING, 19li8;
WARSAW 1tE11MS GERMli_q-i.ANGUAGE PF.OGRAMS
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During World Wer II, the Polish Tadao broadcasting system sustained great
losses in buildings, transmitters, zeceiving equipment, technical equipment, and
program materiel The losser- amounted to 15,336,000 zlotys at prexar exchange
rates. In addition, the general pstlic lost 201,780,000 zlotys' worth of radio
seta to the Germans during th^ o~.-upwtion. Thr_ Polish radio industry, xhose
annual output of radio equipment ass values at over L00^. million zlotys, vea 98-
percent destroyed.
Legal Ststus
Przedsiebioratwo Psn_*.vove "Polskie P.adio" (Polish Radio State Enterprise)
was created by a decree of the PKWN (Pclskie Komitet Wyzwolenia Rarodowego,
Polish Committee of Natinnsi Lit~rratton) oe 22 November 1944. It is a legal
entity and is exempt From c~nLrt. registration. Assets of the Pcl.ish Radio are
excluded from the total assets o' '.he State Treasury. The Polish Radio .a an
independent economic +tnit managed on the basis of commercial principles with
due consideration of state requLrements and publ;c interest. Expenditures of
the Polish Radio are revered by its own i.acome and funds and subsidies from the
9tate~Treasury.
The Polish Radio was =ubordiuste to the Ministry of Informs*.io.. and Propa-
ganda until that ministry's ltauidarioa on 11 April 1947. Now it is subordinate
to the Presidium of the Council of MleisterF.
The Polish Radio has the exclusive right to build, equip, and operate
radio broadcasting stations, relay stations; and radio networks. It also organ-
Szes the steady flox of radio ??rosdcasting material.
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DESTRIC7'ED
Radio Stntioaa
The Polish Radio began c}stations with practically nothing. The first
radio station, a gift of the USSR, made its first broadcast from Lublin oa 11
August 1944. This station vas subsequently moved to Warsaw. Within 3 years,
12 :idio transmitting stations were constructed and equipped, sad ten broad-
castiag stations were built.
The following table presents the 1948 status of the radio network:
Transmitting Power Wave Length Fre uencies Date
fits+ions ~j m! - kc Activated
Krakow 10 293.5 1,J22 15 Feb 45
Katowice 1 24.3,7 ?31 1 Mar 49
10
2"3?~ x,'31 to Mar 46
Warsaw ZI to ;,;39.3 224 1 Dec 4b
Poznan 10 345 8E8.4 3 dun 45
Warsaw I 50 3~`? 8 758
19 pug 45
Warsaw III 7-5 ?8 ,,5 6,115 19 pug 45
Gdansk 0,5 1,'.i?A 278,3 15 Sep 45
Lodz 10 224 1,33 21 Oct 45
Szczecin 0.65 21h i; 1,3.?+ 24 Dec 45
Wroclaw 1 3l ? .b ~5r~ 29 Sep 46
50 %1` ~ 95c. 16 Sep 47
Torun 24 ~^'~ 984 26 Oct 47
The 12th radio transmittt;:g sta?:tur. t. r, bydgoe~cz, vitb a power of 0.8 kilo-
watta and operating since 1 August 19a=, w95 ligtndated when the transmitting
ntatior. In Torun w9s recon5t~:~ted_
The Polish Radio ie planning cc exp?,r.3 *-ii~_ ne'werk oi' the transmitting
atatious in Poland by increasing the pov!+r of the ex L ling transmitters, and by
the construction of new radio ytarioas., p modern 200-ka owatt lung-wave sta-
tion with 330-meter mast will be erP~.;ed in Raezyn. In addl.t.inn, Warsax ie
planning the construction of s 1C+J-ktlovat*. short-wave stn?ion and an experi-
mental television station. ;hr b~.i'.::::ng en b(ysliwiecks Street 1s now being re-
paired to house the brosdcaering etatton an3 the :audios.. After the central
radio station is actuated, the preset.`. 50-k:iovatt r,rs.namitter viii be moved
to Katowice. Szczecin, too, wil.' get 9 50-kilowatt transm:r,ter. It is also
planned to inereaee the power of 9 L' regions) ststioas, and to construct a
broadcsst'ng station in Lublin. ?
Subscribers
The Polish Ra31o is also carrying cut a program of radioflcation in cities,
villages, and workers' eettlementa. There ?ire two forms of radiofication: (1)
relay stations, (2) points of communal list?Wing. In both forms, the broadcast
ie transmitted over telephone wires to loudspeakers in>tslled in the homes of
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subscribers. The radio relay staticn first. ampllf7.es the broadcast with ampli-
Py:ng appsratu :hich is tLa property of. the Feii~h Rsdie.. The collective
listening poi s consist of a 6np?1 radio receiving set which to the point prop-
erty of all subscribers who hsve loudspeakers connected ty t.Plephone wire to
the given apparatus.
The Polish Radio has almost. a mi.lli:r. tubscrlbars, Including nearly
250,000 aubscrit+ers who have lo,idspeaker=, more thsu 10,000 who have crystal
sets, sod 650,C!'G who have radice, Fsdio :-;_::reakers hrive been ins*alled is
2,350 scheol~. 3,u00 c hrbroom=, 65C? in?iu~*riel en`erprieea, 320 hospitals, and
nearly 3,OCh~ villages and vorker~+' sue!*.lemen!?=, The -ar?iofir.atien network of
the Polish Ra; 1o covers all *he 1~-ge- ~ ~-~-, of p,,lanq, ,izd ;he program of
expansion aims tc reach even *._., remove ?_ilaF~;
One half of the Polish Raii^ 'resdr,a^'i:rrz time i. f:?led :y Harsaw, which
tranami}s program3 to regicnni 'arna-!-;:?,rsr st.;*:..n; ! 'shies "'he regional
radio troad,-asting stations ae psr' of na+ionv:3e c~k..~, also contribute
mn8lCfil., CIIlt+lral, and e31::dtiOnal pPi4Z.v7: TYlE `_3=+?; i^iGr'pa+?ivP and politi-
cal m::terisl, especially :he daily n~~~e ?.+;:?_;~ :_ .:?z59c ~.r s.ix times daily, is
suppli.:d exclusively by +lazssv, r_F .:_.j:,. rrc,grss ~: o:nnred `.^ fill EO per-
cent of the time with m?air., and r~ !, ,ude F1>%`, '---..._-.r '_ectures, and
tail's -- usually of a cr;nseling nr..+.::.: Ed:;c:*.~rr;1.!-,adcasta center arc;md
the People's Universi*.y of the Air, vP,t:h condu-rs :c,i-:A, of lec!lres on a
number of soh,jects, partl?:ul?izly ..*.a*.u.nt': srd eo: isl e._erces q'he Felieh
Radio broadca3ts Ruesisn-_an3uace L.-rcrn tom:;e >. veek: an3, indepsndent of
this, the trakow broadcasting s!ari-- -.,r..,... !';e~h-3yngusge le_aons to all
southern broadcasting ataticne Be_:les +~,?~, the F':ts'_ n3,gi~ condur.ts non-
serial iecr.ures and talks^n vnric?= a?, arc' r . ;:nd ~, repsr _ce sec.! ion far
school sad children's program^. 'hiring the summer and :'>li pf 191+P? programs
for children of school age, and olds.-., w~:e expsnded in r_lo-P :ooperation with
the Service for Po19ad organization.
Cooperstion Stith Othe: Couat:ies
The Polish Hadio ceeperates w:th :adt?- ;;e'.tc?e-. '_n :ether c?;untries. The
Polish Aadio maintains perma.::ent r>91_ ~...esrocdents to *he US, England,
Bulgaria, France, Aelghim, iugoslsvie, s.^,.i 'reaco-l~~-~sk1a. The Polish Radio
ie an ar-tive member cf Or6ara:~-+.'o^ ?n!`?-_-_3,,'r,-s! 9e Asaio-iif`us+_on (In*.er-
national Organization for Rad=cf_?:a~c~n' Punng ;.?=~, epE~1a1 agreements for
cooperation with the Ccecheelovak, ~-?u3~?;,v, ynrasc_e.n, F?~ gazlan, and Rumanian
radios were signed; sad lr. lci4g, ar sgr~?~r?=n: ~?a= sig,:r?~ -r1*,h the French radio.
Through these agreements, an exchsnce ~.>'' t-^f^am aF.c~r:91, et?her on records or
magnetophcaic tapes, an3 d!re~! ~.. ~ra!i?:-~ e?; r-cg??;m= i anki~ipated. The
Polish Radio made its first .or.!s?'..n'r,,.:< ;n :; -em`e- :na'+ by meanA of a
special :able to Prague, O:.e:hc-i.askte Sirr:e.t~e in.=."_a?l;tion of the r.able,
half-hour concert programs are e~?_!,arc~9 ~...r m;nth wt'.h ~.-echo~l^vaY .i~d
fiungai?tau ra31c ;tat........
For radio listeners :.+'t_o::i, the :J9--3w ?'? S`9!Cn*;, opersttna on a wave
length of 48.25 met.er~ sod E,~_^~ k'l; ;cis: , Lrca?ics:t; programs :;wily from
1700 to 2400 in the follcv.ng .~:;nuag?>r, c^,rF;! ii, 5a1F9z13n, C..e