| Genre: | News program |
| Presenter: | Marek Czyż Joanna Dunikowska-Paź Zbigniew Łuczyński Monika Sawka |
| Editor: | Paweł Płuska |
| Country: | Poland |
| Language: | Polish |
| Company: | Telewizja Polska |
| Location: | 17 Jana Pawła Woronicza Street, Warsaw, Poland |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Channel: | TVP1 TVP3 (recording only) TVP Info TVP Polonia TVP Wilno |
| Last Aired: | present |
19.30 (stylized as i9.30) is the main Polish television news program produced by Telewizja Polska (TVP) and broadcast on TVP1, TVP Polonia, TVP Info and TVP Wilno. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. It premiered on December 21, 2023 and succeeded Wiadomości, which was canceled following the management changes at TVP days before.[1]
The main presenter of 19.30 is Marek Czyż.[2]
See main article: 2023 takeover of TVP. On December 19, 2023, the Sejm adopted a resolution on the restoration of legal order and the impartiality and reliability of public media. There were 244 MPs in favor of the resolution, 84 MPs against it, and 16 MPs abstained from voting.[3] On the same day, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, appointed new supervisory boards of Telewizja Polska, Polskie Radio and the Polish Press Agency.[4] On December 20, 2023, after 11:18, the TVP Info channel stopped broadcasting,[5] and the TVP2 channel signal was broadcast on TVP3 regional channels. TVP Info employees initially tried to broadcast live on TVP's Facebook and YouTube channels, but those were turned off.[6]
On December 20, at 7:30 p.m., instead of the next edition of Wiadomości, TVP1 broadcast a statement from Marek Czyż:
On December 21, as announced, the first edition of 19.30 was broadcast.[7] On December 29, as part of that day's TVP Info relaunch, the first edition of an additional Gość 19.30 segment was broadcast, with that day's 19.30 presenter Joanna Dunikowska-Paź interviewing Waldemar Skrzypczak; December 29 also marked the first time that 19.30 was broadcast on TVP Info proper as opposed to that channel merely showing the TVP1 broadcast.[8]
From 2 September 2024 will be launched new information programm "14.30", broadcast TVP Info only.[9] [10] [11]
The first edition was watched by over 4 million viewers,[12] [13] [14] with the average viewing figure across the first six editions reaching 2.74 million.[15] In an internal letter to TVP employees, the broadcaster's new CEO Tomasz Sygut claimed to have heard that the program was "fair but a bit boring", which he said was a "desirable" opinion since public television news programs were not meant to be a place for "fireworks, cheap emotional games [...] persecution, lies, and manipulation."[16] [17]
On 19 February 2024, the Demagog factchecking website published a report in which it compared 19.30 's January editions with those of TVN's Fakty and Polsat's Wydarzenia and concluded that 19.30 was biased towards the October 15 Coalition government.[18] [19]