TVP board dismisses directors, including Miller's man Pieńkowski

However, the board only managed to hand one of the directors discharge papers, with the other three on holiday or nowhere to be found. The latter situation being the case of Janusz Pieńkowski, a close friend of Prime Minister Leszek Miller, now dismissed from the post of head of the Television Information Agency (TAI), who used to ensure that TVP news portrayed a positive image of the premier and his cabinet. TAI will now be split between TVP's three channels, with each of them responsible for its own news service. Popular newscaster Kamil Durczok is rumored to be one of the main candidates for the post of head of news at TVP1. (Rzeczpospolita, Feb. 28-29, p. A3, Gazeta Wyborcza, Feb. 28-29, p. 4) T.J.