Indicator history

Public media (radio and tv) are required to account for the needs of minorities, including broadcasting information programmes in minority languages. Minority language programming or content about minorities are broadcast in certain sections of regional Polish state television (TVP 3) and radio in areas with minority populations. There are also three private radio stations broadcasting for minorities (Radio Racja for Belarusians, Radio Kaszebe for Kashubians, Radio Vanesa for Germans). However, the respective laws are sometimes being implemented defectively: minority programming is broadcast during low point hours and on the selected local channels only (thus being unavailable for the minority members living outside a given area). Apart from this, minority’s magazines (in minority language) are subsidized by the state budget (in 2010, 36 minority’s magazines received financial support).

The above regulations apply only to national and ethnic minorities; there are no regulations concerning the languages spoken by migrants.

Sources:
Act on Radio and Television,  (Dz. U. 1993/7/34)

Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Second Opinion on Poland, adopted on 20 March 2009, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/3_fcnmdocs/PDF_2nd_OP_Poland_en.pdf