A new 'Law on Radio and Television' was finally adopted on 29 December, after almost three years of debates. Despite the new law, more than 60 local radio and TV stations were broadcasting without a licence, but the situation improved the following years. Legal framework Poland had successfully established its own brand of independent media before the pivotal year 1989, when the first free elections were held, but then things like advertising, circulation and promotion managers were virtually unknown. Today, the Polish media scene is as diverse as vigorous, and doing relatively well. By most standards newspapers in Poland are reasonably successful.
Broadcasting is however a different story.
The biggest problems mass-media is facing today, especially the broadcasters, come from the government, controlled now by a coalition of former communists and their allies. It was drafted in 1995 and gives the government inordinate control over journalists. Their work would be judged by a government-established and financed press council that would have the power to bar a journalist from the profession. The bill was adopted by the Polish Parliament on 29 December 1992, after almost three years of fierce debating, and came into force on 1 March 1993. The law was issued together with an amendment to the constitution stating a central authority in the broadcasting field 'The National Council of Radio and Television' .