After last year’s boycott, the Wiktor gala will not take place
Media Corporation reactivated Wiktory a year ago, after a seven-year break. In the meantime, however – in September 2022 – Jacek Kurski was replaced by Mateusz Matyszkowicz as president of Telewizja Polska.
gala Wiktorów in 2022which took place on March 31, was broadcast by Telewizja Polska. The main star was supposed to be Sting, but the artist withdrew after his and his wife’s friend, director Małgorzata Szumowska, informed him that supporting TVP propaganda was frowned upon in Poland.
“I couldn’t in good conscience attend a hate-spreading station party” — Maciej Stuhr wrote on Facebooknominated in the Actor of the Year category, who performed with Sting at the National Stadium six months later.
As one of the first Mariusz Szczygieł appealed to Sting, writing in social media that the artist: “authorizes and authenticates television, which has nothing to do with democratic free media.” Kinga Rusin, Katarzyna Janowska, Monika Olejnik, Tomasz Raczek, Magda Mołek and Robert Makłowicz also dissociated themselves from the Wiktors’ idea on TVP in various forms.
The originator of Wiktorów is the journalist and TV producer Józef Węgrzyn, the owner of Media Corporation. For the first time, Wiktors were awarded for 1985. Since the 1990s, ceremonial galas were held on the occasion of the award ceremony. The last one before last year’s revival — in 2015.
The information shows that Media Corporation is not planning a plebiscite this year, although – as the interlocutor of “Presserwis” points out – official decision has not yet been made.
Last year, the award in the Journalist of the Year category went to Andrzej Poczobut. Super Wiktor was awarded to Cezary Pazura (he was at the gala), Alicja Majewska, Andrzej Seweryn and Karol Strasburger (all three were not present). In the Wiktor of the Audience category, the president of TVP, Jacek Kurski, presented the award to Ida Nowakowska, a public television presenter.
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