''19.30'' (stylized as i9.30) is the main

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television news program produced by

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(TVP) and broadcast on

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(from 29 December 2023) and

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. The main edition is transmitted daily at 7:30p.m. It premiered on December 21, 2023 and succeeded ''

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'', which was canceled following the management changes at TVP days before.

History of creation

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. On the same day, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage,

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, appointed new supervisory boards of

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and the

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. On December 20, 2023, after 11:18, the

channel stopped broadcasting, and the

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channel signal was broadcast on

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regional channels. TVP Info employees initially tried to broadcast live on TVP's

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channels, but those were turned off. On December 20, at 7:30 p.m., instead of the next edition of

, TVP1 broadcast a statement from

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: On December 21, as announced, the first edition of ''19.30'' was broadcast. On December 29, as part of that day's

relaunch, the first edition of an additional ''Gość 19.30'' segment was broadcast, with that day's ''19.30'' presenter Joanna Dunikowska-Paź interviewing

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; 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. On 9 September 2024, as part of a new schedule on

, TVP premiered a new sister afternoon bulletin known as ''14.30'', which is broadcast on TVP Info and TVP3.

Reception

The first edition was watched by over 4 million viewers, with the average viewing figure across the first six editions reaching 2.74 million. 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." 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 ''

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'' and concluded that ''19.30'' was biased towards the

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government.

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