Awards 2006  

Player of the Year 2006 - Mariusz Walter, Executive Vice Chairman of the ITI Group has been recognized as Poland's leading entrepreneur in the media, telecommunication and IT sector based on a survey conducted by the Forbes magazine. Launched in 1997 and initially headed by Mariusz Walter TVN is today Poland's leading private television broadcaster operating 11 channels. In 2006 TVN showed outstanding operating and financial results, launched two thematic channels (TVN Med and TVN Lingua) and merged Poland's largest Internet portal Onet.pl into the TVN Group. The newly launched TVN thematic channels made their debut on "n" Poland's technologically most advanced digital platform. "n" has been launched by the ITI Group in October 2006. Further ITI Group laureates for the "Players of the Year 2006" include Wojciech Kostrzewa, President and CEO of the ITI Group, and Lukasz Wejchert, President of Grupa Onet. (December, 2006)

Grand Press 2006 - Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Morozowski, hosts of TVN's "Teraz My" named "Journalist of the Year 2006". The award recognizes professionalism and ethics in journalism. Sekielski and Morozowski are also laureates of the Grand Press award in the category "news" for revealing the "Beger tapes". Additional awards were presented to Daniel Zielinski of TVN Superwizjer, for his documentary "Kardiochirurg bet serca" ("Cardiac surgeon with no heart") and Roman Mlodkowski in the category "specialized journalism" for his show "Firma" dedicated to setting up a diving school. The Grand Press awards cover a range of categories, from printed stories to radio and TV reporting, the survey is conducted by the "Press" magazine. (December, 2006)

Leader of the Year 2006 in Health Care - TVN Foundation "nie jestes sam" was awarded by one of the most prestigious contests within the medical sector the "Success of the Year in Health Care" title issued by the Health Manager magazine in cooperation with Termedia, the medical publishing house. The contest aims to recognize individuals and organizations active and successful in the health care industry. (December, 2006)

"Only fish don't bite" - Daniel Zielinski, TVN journalist was awarded during the 7th edition of anti- corruption contest conducted by The Stefan Batory Foundation in cooperation with Human Rights Watch. Daniel Zielinski was recognized as the best investigating journalist for his documentary - "Kardiochirurg bez serca" ("Cardiac surgeon with no heart") about a young doctor conspiring against the Head of the Bialystok Clinic. Zilinski was recognized for "taking a closer look at the affair, despite the general media condemning opinion, which resulted in revealing the real perpetrator, his motives and connections". The "Only fish don't bite" contest aims to support the investigating journalism in Poland. (December, 2006)

Webstar 2006 - Onet.pl has been awarded by Polish Internet users and received several prizes from The Internet Academy during the Webstarfestival promoting Poland's best internet websites. www.wiadomosci.onet.pl has been recognized as the best page in the category "News and Information" by Internet users. The Internet Academy, consisting of the most successful representatives of the Internet business, awarded the following services from Onet.pl: www.podroze.onet.pl, www.blog.onet.pl and www.skype.onet.pl in respective categories: "travel and tourism", "community" and "technology, useful electronics and communication". (November, 2006)

MARQA 2006 - TVN and Onet.pl for the third time in a row have been ranked as Poland's most valuable brands in a survey conducted by Rzeczpospolita daily in cooperation with Ernst & Young. TVN was awarded most valuable brand in the category "telecommunication, media, trade and services", whereas Onet.pl received the "MARQA 2006" title for having the strongest market position in its business sector based on consumers' preferences. The MARQA ranking focuses on Poland's best brands and whereby the strength of a brand is measured by its financial value. Other criteria taken into consideration are recognition, prestige, loyalty and other qualitative factors influencing a brand strength. (November, 2006)

Kisiel Award 2006 - Roman Mlodkowski, head of the TVN 24 business editorial team was recognized for "teaching people on economics" as host of programs such as "Bilans", "Fakty Ludzie Pieniadze" ("Facts, People, Money") and "Firma" ("Company"). Mlodkowski received the award in the category "Publicist". The Kisiel awards are given every year to three individuals selected among politicians, journalists and entrepreneurs in a survey conducted by the "Wprost" magazine. The award bears the name of the famous Polish columnist and writer, Stefan Kisielewski. (November 2006)

Satellite Platform of the Year 2006 - n has been recognized as the "Satellite Platform of the Year 2006" in a survey conducted by the Cable and Satellite Europe magazine. Maciej Sojka, Chief Executive Officer of ITI Neovision, has been named within the "Euro 50" an annual publication recognizing top players in the broadband and pay TV industry in Europe. Maciej Sojka was acknowledged for the very innovative approach and high technology level while launching n. The "Euro 50" list has been announced at the European Media Leaders Summit in London. (November, 2006)

Golden Bills 2006 - the award of Radio WAWA was presented to TVN for its successful entertainment format "Taniec z gwiazdami" ("Strictly Come Dancing"), which was recognized as the best television show in recent years and won the prize in the category "Event of the Year". Polish music and culture awards - Golden Bills of Radio WAWA - are given in six categories based on internet and SMS voting among the radio WAWA's audience. (November, 2006)

"Media & Marketing Polska" Award - TVN24 was named "Television of the Year 2006" and its programs "Szklo kontaktowe" ("Lens") received the"Hit Television Program of the Year 2006" award based on a survey conducted by "Media & Marketing Polska". Since 1997, the editors of "Media & Marketing Polska" issue awards for outstanding performance/achievements media companies. The survey results are based on the opinion of journalists and detailed analysis conducted during preparation of magazine's annual special reports dedicated among other to Television. (October, 2006)

Camera Obscura 2006 - TVN was awarded during the International edition of the Festival of TV Reportage CAMERA OBSCURA 2006. TVN won in the category "investigating reportage" for the Daniel Zielinski film "Kardiochirurg bez serca" ("Cardio surgeon with no heart"). The goal of the "Camera Obscura" festival is to recognize the best creators of TV reportage, presenting Europe, with its multicultural environment and complex reality of transformations and contrast, through the eyes of outstanding journalists and filmmakers and discussion over the image of contemporary Europe and world from the perspective of informational and medial culture of the beginning of 21st century. The festival is organized by the Art House foundation. (October, 2006)

Manager of the Year 2006 - Piotr Walter, Chief Executive Officer of TVN S.A. and Maciej Sojka, Chief Executive Officer of ITI Neovision were awarded with the prestigious "HBO Manager of the Year 2006" award. Piotr Walter, came top in the category "Investments & Development", recognizing the consequence in developing and maintaining TVN Group's leading position on the Polish media market. Specifically mentioned are Piotr Walter's achievements by applying innovative technologies, well considered programming offer as well as smart long-term investments such as the takeover of Onet.pl. Maciej Sojka won in the category "Technologies & Innovation" for introducing "n", the digital platform considered the most innovative project on the current media market. The HBO survey aims to acknowledge those organizations and individuals who influence greatly the development and promotion within the electronic communications sector. (October, 2006)

Andrzej Woyciechowski Award - Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Morozowski, hosts of TVN’s  "Teraz My” programme are this year’s laureates of the Andrzej Woyciechowski award. This journalistic award named after Andrzej Woyciechowski one of Poland's outstanding journalists and founder of Radio Zet. The TVN journalists received the award in recognition for their journalistic efforts in providing coverage on  the issue of awarding General Wojciech Jaruzelski the Sibir Exile Cross. The Andrzej Woyciechowski award is given for outstanding journalism, which in significant degree changed Polish peoples lives and had an influence on their perception of the World. The Award Committee is made up of heads from leading Polish media. (October, 2006)

Financial Director of the Year 2006 - Karen Burgess Deputy President and CFO TVN awarded "Best Finance Director of the Year 2006". Karen Burgess came in first in a competition organized by “Manager Magazin” in cooperation with Euler Hermes Group. Karen Burgess was nominated for the strong debut of the TVN Group on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, which shares tripled in value since IPO in December 2004. The increase was a result of the continuing rise in the TVN Group results. The competition is organized in order to choose and award the people who are Poland's best Finance Directors. (October, 2006)

HOT BIRD TV Award 2006 - TVN24 was presented the "HOT BIRD" award, the thematic satellite television channel awards are commonly referred to as a satellite television Oscars. TVN24 was awarded in the category "market dynamism" for its innovative production and technology. TVN24 was among 100 thematic digital channels from 15 nations competing for the awards presented in 11 categories to the best thematic channels transmitted by Hot Bird satellites. The HOT BIRD TV awards competition has been organized for 10 years by Eutelsat one of the leading satellite operators in cooperation with Eurovisioni, the international film and television festival. (September, 2006)

Business Leaders 2006 - Jan Wejchert, Executive Chairman of the ITI Group, has been named "Business Leader 2006" in a survey by the "Forbes" magazine. Jan Wejchert has been recognized for the consequence in developing and strengthening the position of the ITI Group, which he founded in 1984 together with Mariusz Walter. The founding shareholders were joined by Bruno Valsangiacomo in 1991 and Wojciech Kostrzewa in 2005. The ITI Group, since its start managed by Jan Wejchert is today Poland's leading media group, active in television broadcasting and production, multiplex cinema operations, home video and theatrical distribution, theatrical production, new media and football. The ITI Group created and developed some of the most significant brands in Poland such as TVN, TVN24, Multikino and Onet.pl. (August 2006)

Niptel 2006 - TVN journalists, Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Mrozowski were presented the Niptel 2006 Media Award for their political show "Teraz My", which has been recognized as the most outstanding political journalism showing as well a good sense humor. The Niptel Media Award aims to recognize the most significant media events and important personalities on the Polish media market. (August, 2006)

Charlie's Blue Bowler Hat 2006 Award - programs from TVN and TVN 24 have been awarded during the 7th Humor Festival, which took place in Gdynia. TVN's "Szymon Majewski show" was awarded as "the funniest TV entertainment show" and "Taniec z gwiazdami" was recognized as the best "music-entertainment show with a smile". The audience award for the favorite entertainment show, based on Internet voting, was presented to "Szklo kontaktowe" ("Lens"), a satiric magazine of TVN 24. The Humor Festival targets to acknowledge the best entertainment products from television, radio and drawing satire artwork. (July, 2006)

Wladyslaw Grabski Award - Robert Stanilewicz of TVN24's business editorial team, became a second time winner of the prestigious Wladyslaw Grabski award given from a survey conducted by the National Bank of Poland, Retures Polska and the Polish Journalists Association. The survey aims to recognize journalists, who through their work contribute to the development of a general economic knowledge in society. (June, 2006)

BAZAR 2006 - Roman Mlodkowski, head of the TVN 24 business editorial department received a special award of BAZAR, the National Documentary Film Festival in the category "publicism". Ilona Masiewicz-Starczewska and Maciej Starczewski of TVN24 were awarded in the category "magazine on current affairs and economics" for the "Film Chronicle". Jaroslaw Jabrzyk of TVN was recognized in the category " film, documentary" for his reportage "Zjawa" with an additional award going to Witold Gadowski and Przemyslaw Wojciechowski (TVN) for the documentary "Paliwo zeglugowe". BAZAR is one of Poland's most important events focusing on the economic journalism. Festival is organized by Poznan International Fair, The Polish Chamber of Commerce and Astra TV Studio. (June, 2006)

Premium Brand 2006 - TVN is among the brands recognized by consumers as having a strong reputation. The Premium Brand 2006 ranking was conducted by Millward Brown SMG/KRC, the marketing research company. The following criteria were used to determine the ranking: consumer trust and loyalty, prestige, good image, popularity and brand awareness, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and so called references, understood as consumer readiness to recommend the brand to the others. (June, 2006)

"The Power of Enterprise" Statuette - Roman Mlodkowski, head of TVN 24 business editorial department and TVN24 Business Programming director deputy, has been awarded by Studenckie Forum Business Centre Club, the association of young entrepreneurs. Mlodkowski has been recognized for promoting the idea of entrepreneurship among Poles, by providing interesting and useful information on business and economic issues in his program "Firma" ("Company"). The Power of Enterprise statuettes are given to individuals and organizations for contributing to the development of young initiative in Poland. (May, 2006)

"Libertas et Auxilium" Award - Robert Stanilewicz and Pamela Bem from the editing team of TVN 24's "Portfel" magazine are the first laureates of "Libertas et Auxilium" contest conducted by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), Adam Smith's Center and Polish Journalists Association under the auspices of the Polish Prime Minister. The "Libertas et Auxilium" awards, handed for the first time this year, recognize press publications as well as television and radio magazines addressing competition and consumers' rights, while contributing to the development of high quality journalism on economics in Poland. (May, 2006)

European Screen 2005 - Inga Rosinska, the TVN 24 correspondent in Brussels is a second time award winner in a contest for journalists reporting on EU matters, conducted by the European Journalists Club SDP. Inga Rosinska was awarded in the category "television" for being the only journalist to report "fast and good" on EU matters in an interesting manner and without unnecessary sensationalism. (May, 2006)

HR Manager of the Year 2005 - Roman Szczepanik, ITI Group head of Human Recourses, is one of the 5 laureates of this year survey conducted by Rzeczpospolita daily and the personnel consulting company "Bigram". (April, 2006)

Wiktory 2005 - TVN journalists, Justyna Pochanke, Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Morozowski are among this year winners of the Wiktor 2005 statuettes, the prestigious awards given from The Polish Television Academy. Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Morozowski were awarded in the category "the most recognized journalist, commentator, publicist". Justyna Pochanke won in the category "the best TV presenter". Kamil Durczok, who is to join TVN as Fakty's editor-in-chief in May received the audience award. "Wiktory" are presented to the most outstanding television personalities. (April, 2006)

Reader's Digest European Trusted Brands 2006 - according to the results of the European Trusted Brands 2006 consumer survey two of ITI Group's brands - Onet.pl and TVN were among the brands acknowledged as most trustworthy by Poles. This is the sixth time in the case of Onet.pl and the fifth time in the case of TVN to be awarded the most trusted brand title. European Trusted Brands is a multi country study of consumer attitudes conducted annually by Reader's Digest magazin. This year research took place in 14 European countries. More than 25'000 respondents nominated their favoured brands by such criteria as high quality, value for money, strong image, understanding of costumer needs. (April, 2006)

Power for Professionals - Pascal was presented with the "Power for Professionals" award during the PSI International Fair for Advertising Specialties Warsaw 2006. Pascal was recognized for the consequent execution of its strategy to introduce its own travel guides to the market. PSI is an international organization gathering advertising merchandise producers and distributors. (March, 2006)

WOPR Award - Onet.pl was recognized by the Polish Voluntary Water Rescue Service (Wodne Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe) for its returning campaign "Safe Water", promoting safe practices concerning various water related sports and activities. One of the main elements of the initiative by Onet.pl is its Internet service (www.bezpiecznawoda.onet.pl) available through the end of summer providing useful information on safe boating, sailing, swimming, diving, windsurfing and other activities while on, in or under the water. (March, 2006)

Media Trendy 2006 - Piotr Walter, Chief Executive Officer of TVN S.A., was named "Media Man of the Year" based on the survey "Innovation in Mass Media - Media Trendy" conducted by the Association of Advertising Agencies and Eskadra Promarket. TVN 24 was honored with the title of "broadcaster of the Year". TVN has been acknowledged in the category " Social Marketing" for its "Orphanages" project. Media Trendy awards are presented to creators of most interesting and innovative marketing ideas on media market. (March, 2006)

Dariusz Fikus Award - Roman Mlodkowski, the chief editor of TVN 24 Business and the creator of the "Bilans" and "Firma" programs focusing on economics, was honored in the category "Media Creator". Mlodkowski's programs have been acknowledged to increase the viewers knowledge in economics and are to said to be stimulating initiative and entrepreneurship among Poles. The Dariusz Fikus award is named after a prominent journalist promoting the idea of independent media and is awarded by Rzeczpospolita daily and its publisher Presspublica. (March, 2006)

Soccer Oscars 2006 - Lukasz Fabianski has been recognized as "Best Goal Keeper of the Year" by a survey organized by Poland's leading pay television provider, Canal+. The awards are granted based on a survey among Poland's football players. The Soccer Oscar Gala, which took place on 05.03.2006 in the Polish Theater in Warsaw, was attended by many celebrities of Polish sport and culture scene as well as by well-known businessmen and politicians. (March, 2006)

Sharp Pens 2005 - Cezary Krolak of TVN24 has been among this year winners of the award granted by the Business Centre Club to Polish journalists, who are promoting entrepreneurship and the principles of the free market economy, and contribute to the economic education. Among the laureates of the Sharp Pens are a number of prominent journalists and chief editors of Poland's major press publications. (February, 2006)

Impactor 2005 - Piotr Walter, Chief Executive Officer of TVN S.A., was named "Man of the year 2005" in the media and advertising industry. Piotr Walter has been acknowledged for the successful debut of the TVN Group on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and TVN's outstanding financial performance as well as for his professionalism and efficiency in managing the TVN Group's television channels. TVN 24 was recognized as the most credible medium of the year. Kamil Durczok, who will join TVN in May as the editor-in-chief of Fakty, was named the most credible journalist of the year. The Impactors are granted by the Polish advertising industry. (February, 2006)

CoolBrand - TVN 24 has been ranked among the top ten most desirable brands on the Polish market from a survey conducted by Superbrands Ltd., as a part of a pan-European survey aimed to define tastes and preferences of European consumers. The CoolBrand title is awarded to the brands perceived as stylish, innovative, original, authentic and exceptional. Companies awarded a CoolBrand title include Apple (Macintosh), Absolut, Google, Converse, Diesel, National Geographic, Puma, Body Shop i Adidas. (February, 2006)

Bull and Bear award for TVN. TVN was recognized as the company with the highest standards of corporate governance. The "Bull and Bear" statuettes are being presented every year to representatives of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange by Gazeta Gieldowa Parkiet. This year ceremony took place in the WSE's premises and in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Zyta Gilowska. (February, 2006)

WSE Award - TVN was among the companies and brokerage houses awarded by the Chairman of Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) during the ceremony of the inauguration of the Exchange Year 2006. TVN was awarded as a WIG20 index company with the highest rate of return as the share price appreciated by 99% in 2005. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Poland's Prime Minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Zyta Gilowska and other representatives of Polish finance market. (January, 2006)