MTI reported that PKN Orleans, a leading Polish group in fuel and energy supplies, may acquire a significant stake in the Polish regional press after signing a pre-contract on Monday to buy German publishing group Polska Press. The acquisition of a publisher who also owns newspapers and internet service providers has not been approved by the Polish Consumer Protection Agency.
Polska Press, which was acquired by German company Verlagsgruppe Passau, said Polska Press, which acquired Germany’s Verlagsgruppe Passau, said it had 20 of 24 regional newspapers distributed in Poland. Regional news portals.
The deal will give Orlen access to 17.4 million users of Polska Press’s online publications, “which is central to the planned development of the retail network of a large oil and gas company,” the statement said. At the end of November, Orlen also acquired a 65 percent stake in one of the largest Polish newspaper distributors, RUCH SA.
As for the national newspapers, one of the five most read newspapers (the Fakt tabloid) is foreign-owned, with four other daily newspapers, including the center-right balliberal Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, which are held by Poland, but none of them are considered favorable. -Government. Of the ten most read news portals, 6 are owned by Poles, all of whom are government judges.
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Among the three most watched TV news channels, the Polish-owned public service channel TVP Info and its distance from the government is Polsat News, while the third is TVN24, which is owned by the United States.
So far MTI announcement, from here we quote one Our previous article:
Andrzej Duda, who was re-elected president in July, and his conservative nationalist camp, said that the presence of foreign media owners was not desirable, and the transformation of Polish media relations was one of the most important things for the organized authority. If they carry out their plans – and the current change of ownership is a big step towards achieving the goal – the media situation will be very similar to that in Hungary, where the former international owners have now sold their media portfolios in most cases – mostly to businessmen close to NER to eventually swallow up KESMA. Then all of them.
Polish critics of the plans, including leaders of media companies, specifically cited Hungary as a bad example. According to them, with the exception of rural newspapers, there is no focus in the Polish media at all, and they are more afraid that the Law and Justice Party plans will stifle independent and critical journalism, as did Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary.
