"With your aid we will be further. Support us regularly by placing a standing order in your bank, post office or post office" – Tomasz Sakiewicz's station welcomes you on its website.
For respective days now, her fresh place has been circulating on the network, asking for support. The video under "The Authority wants to silence us! See how to defend the home of Free Word!" airs is besides aired on air.
It starts innocently.
– Thanks to you we have built the largest information station in Poland – the audience can hear at the outset. Tomasz Sakiewicz boasts that thanks to them they produced 4 presidential debates, showed the oath of Karol Nawrocki and Donald Trump, were at a Conservative conference in the USA, and besides organized CPAC Poland in Rzeszów and fresh Year's Eve in Rzeszów.
And then the viewer hears that the home of Free Word is on the radar of the present power. – Conspiracy on the advertising marketplace makes us incapable to full meet our goals. That is why we request your regular support," Sakiewicz calls.
An appeal for support came even on WŚP Day, erstwhile Sakiewicz's station – as noted – did not mention the action of Jerzy Owsiak. "For erstwhile again, thanking you for your support so far, I must ask the viewers of the Republic for further financial support of our station" – they heard from Edyta Lewnadowska.
It is not the first time tv Republic has called for donations and boasts that thanks to them, it has built modern studios, not to mention that a year ago it moved to a fresh headquarters.
But this time the background is different.
Media on tv Republic problems. "She may be threatened with withdrawal of the concession"
The media has been reporting on the station's problems for days. "TV Republic has trouble", "Can endanger to revoke its concession", "Looking for money to survive", and even – "TV Republic fights for survival".
"Wprost" writes: "No full payment for the concession and increasing obligations to the transmitter operator puts the station's future in question".
"Election": "Republic has financial problems".
"Wp.pl": "Republic deals with concession?".
This is simply a 10-year ground concession, which costs tv Republic 17.85 million PLN. all year, by 1 September, Tomasz Sakiewicz's station should pay a payment of PLN 1.85 million and it did so in 2024.
But not in 2025.
This time it turns out that the station paid for broadcasting only until the end of January 2026 and – according to the press service – it is expected to have a backlog of PLN 900,000.
Furthermore, as Ms Ostrowska, a KRRiT press secretary, tv Republika, has submitted a request to spread the remaining concession fees into instalments. "This proposal is presently being examined by KRRiT lawyers," said Ostrowska.
The information caused a storm in the media, but it besides divided individuals associated with the KRRiT.
Experts on the concession fee tv Republic
"The distribution of the concession fee into yearly instalments as well as monthly instalments is average practice in the National Council. The consignor may submit specified a request at any time. The reasons for the Republic seem reasonable to me, but the final decision is taken by the members of the KRRiT in a vote," stated in an interview with Virtual Media Witold Kołodziejski, president of the KRRiT in 2016-2022.
Krzysztof Luft, a associate of the KRRiT from 2010 to 2016, assessed: "If I remember correctly, the situations of the distribution of the concession fee into specified instalments occurred – this was most frequently the case for tiny broadcasters who found themselves in a peculiarly hard financial situation. possibly tv Republic is specified a broadcaster.
Tomasz Sakiewicz responded: – We send according to the applicable law and decisions of the authorities and courts.
