TVP to allow TVN to rebroadcast Pope's visit, but TVN24 will have to pay

TVN24 will have to pay state run Polish Television (TVP) for the right to show the Pope's pilgrimage to Poland later this month. "Sharing the broadcast with the TVN24 free of charge is ruled out as it is a pay channel," said Robert Kwiatkowski, the president of public television. He added that TVN24 sister channel, TVN, which is freely accessible to the public will receive pictures without payment. "It is regrettable that TVP is behaving in such a way on the occasion of the visit of His Holiness and evokes an argument about money," commented Adam Pieczynski from TVN24. Channel representatives were also quoted as saying that TVN24 is actually "less payable" than TVP, for the latter charges the viewers with high license fees. (Zycie, p. 1) M.K.