Telewizja Puls suspends its main news program due to financial problems

Starting June 1 Wydarzenia, the main news program on Telewizja Puls will be suspended, the president of Telewizja Familijna (TF) Father Jacek Suhak announced on Friday. "Prokom Investments has not kept its promise to purchase TF's bonds valued at zl. 26 million which has lead us into a very difficult situation. Therefore we have to curb costs," said Suhak. He added that all his reporters who prepare Wydarzenia were given notice on Friday, but the program will remain on the air until the end of May. The reporters are not surprised by the news. "We have known about the firm's financial dire straits for a long time," Piotr Gursztyn told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) on Friday. Suhak emphasized that the suspension of Wydarzenia is solely due to TF's shareholder Prokom. "The program itself was highly praised by viewers. We are going to suspend the program as we do not want to spoil its quality due to our present financial problems," said Suhak. (Gazeta Wyborcza, April 27-28, p. 25) A.Z.