Among news channels, TV Republika ranked No. 1 in every month of 2025, defeating TVN24 each time. It capped off the past year with an excellent December result, significantly outpacing the channel from Wiertnicza Street. Strong viewership figures meant that TV Republika was the fourth most-watched television channel in Poland last year. “Not once did TVN24 catch up with us, not in any month. Every month our main and only competitor, because the rest are far behind, did not even come close to Republika. This means one thing – we took away some of their viewers. Something that seemed impossible,” said the station’s president, Tomasz Sakiewicz.
TV Republika was the most-watched news channel in December 2025. The market share of the channel from Plac Bankowy reached 5.13 percent.
In the month crowned by Republika with an explosive New Year’s Eve, TVN24 (4.31 percent) lagged behind, as did the illegally seized TVP Info (1.63 percent), Polsat News (1.15 percent), and Wydarzenia 24 (1.09 percent).
Among the largest news channels, TV Republika can also boast a strong year-on-year increase in market share dynamics. In the 16-59 age group, its share in December 2025 was nearly 35 percent higher than in December 2024. At the same time – on a yearly basis – TVN24, TVP Info, and Polsat News recorded noticeable declines.
Jarosław Olechowski, head of editors at TV Republika, does not hide his satisfaction with the growth in audience numbers in the so-called commercial group, which is the most attractive to advertisers.
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There is also reason for celebration for TV Republika in the annual data – throughout 2025, the channel was the most frequently chosen by viewers in the news category. Republika distanced itself from its biggest competitors, achieving a market share of 6.08 percent. By comparison, TVN24 recorded a share of 5.11 percent, the illegally seized TVP Info – 1.68 percent, and Polsat News – 1.38 percent.
With this result, TV Republika was also the fourth most-watched television channel in Poland, outperforming, among others, TVP2, and trailing only TVP1, Polsat, and – by a hair – TVN.
In social media, Olechowski pointed out that among news channels, TV Republika ranked No. 1 every single month, beating TVN24 each time.
“Very often we also had higher viewership than the so-called major channels, meaning TVP1, TVP2, Polsat, and TVN. In July, Republika was the most-watched television channel in Poland among all broadcasters,” wrote the head of editors at TV Republika on social media.
Sakiewicz: We achieved something that seemed impossible
“Not once did TVN24 catch up with us, not in any month. Every month our main and only competitor, because the rest are far behind, did not even come close to Republika. This means one thing – we took away some of their viewers. Something that seemed impossible. (…) TVN24 was always the biggest, and now we took their viewers, they came to us,” commented the station’s success, TV Republika president Tomasz Sakiewicz. He emphasized that the channel also has very strong streaming on YouTube, unmatched compared to other television newsrooms.
According to Olechowski, a historic change has taken place on the Polish news channel market. “Since the creation of TVN24 in 2001, there has never been a year in which another news channel beat TVN24 throughout the entire year. This is a success – of our viewers, of our team,” he assessed.
He also noted that Republika managed to achieve what TVP Info failed to do during the years of the United Right’s rule, even though the budget available to public television was incomparably larger than that of the channel from Plac Bankowy.