TVP didnt respond to several Deadline requests for comment.
Under PiS, this was taken to extremes.
TVP was never politically neutral but over the last eight years it became outrageous, adds Rogalski.
Police officers block the entrance to TVP headquarters during a sit-in protestAttila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
It was a disgrace.
The situation now is just a consequence of the pendulum moving so far to the right.
They didnt have a plan B, he says.
My vote is the only one against the four others.
I am a simple, lone voice, he tells Deadline.
Putting the companies into liquidation is not so controversial.
However, it is acting like losing eyeballs.
The decline of TVPs news coverage isnt only down to politics and viewing habits, believes Sussex Universitys Szczerbiak.
What strikes you when you watch now is its amateurishness, he says of the TVP Info news channel.
Its technically not very well put together.
What is the attraction of watching TVP Info any more?
Television is so much more than news and its not only TVPs journalistic output that is struggling.
TV is starving, he adds.
The European market is more fearless than our market.
Rogalski concurs and says buyers in Poland have for a long while had a simple mindset.
There is no reason why we cant create a balanced, sustainable industry.
I am always for the middle way.
