Kino Polska TV and PIKSEL Foundation launch DTT channel “Zoom TV” on MUX-8 in Poland

Zoom TV debuted as a linear channel on Polish DTT network on October 25^th, 2016 during the annual PIKE conference in Łódź, Poland. The new channel is available on the eighth DTT multiplex and is also carried by all major cable networks in Poland including UPC, Multimedia, Toya and Inea.
 

Zoom TV is a universal channel with a diverse programming offer featuring lifestyle formats, infotainment, local community news coverage, documentaries as well as movies and TV series. The new network airs several shows produced by Grupa Onet, Poland's leading online media company, which are hosted by some of the most popular TV personalities in the country: Jarosław Kuźniar and Bartosz Węglarczyk. Zoom TV is also presenting an original program hosted by well-known journalist Piotr Najsztub. Vital part of the content is supplied by local TV and cable networks associated with PIKE, the Polish Chamber for Electronic Communication whose PIKSEL Foundation is the other shareholder, next to Kino Polska TV S.A., in Cable Television Networks & Partners, Zoom TV’s broadcaster
 

“We are actually working on three Zoom channels. The first one has just debuted on DTT in Poland and now we are focusing on delivering it to every household. Zoom 2 will be interactive and launched soon, in spring 2017. We hope that DTT viewers will enjoy new interactive features and will be more willing to connect their TVs to the Internet. Zoom 3 will be an international version of Zoom TV dedicated to Polish communities abroad.  We will offer this channel just before the end of the first half of next year” – explained Bogusław Kisielewski, President of the Kino Polska TV S.A. Capital Group. SPI International BV is the majority stakeholder of Kino Polska TV S.A.

 

In March 2014 Kino Polska TV (in a joint venture backed by Polish media holding Agora S.A.) succesfully launched STOPKLATKA TV, the first movie channel on Poland’s DTT network.