The annual awards, which were revived in 2019 after a hiatus of more than a decade, are presented in three main categories: Music, Image, and Printed Word.
Polish Radio sponsors the award in the Music category.
Meanwhile, public television broadcaster TVP takes care of selecting the winner in the Image category, and the state news agency PAP is in charge of the Printed Word award.
Last year, a fourth category, Idea, was added, in which the award winner is selected by the heads of 17 regional broadcasters overseen by Polish Radio.
The winner in each category walks away with a statuette and a cash prize of PLN 100,000 (EUR 21,380, USD 22,150).
This year's nominees in the Music category are conductor Łukasz Borowicz, singer Renata Przemyk, and composer, arranger, bass player and multi-instrumentalist Marcin Pospieszalski.
Polish Radio CEO Agnieszka Kamińska said at a news conference on Monday that the nominees represented a variety of music genres, including classical music, pop, jazz and folk.
Kamińska has previously said that the Polish Radio awards in the Music category are intended for "remarkable artists who contribute to national culture in the most valuable way by creating original, ambitious and extraordinary music that transgresses stylistic boundaries."
Polish Radio CEO Agnieszka Kamińska speaks at a press conference in Warsaw on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak
The originator of Poland’s Public Media Awards, Krzysztof Czabański, who heads a watchdog body known as the National Media Council, has said the annual awards are “a form of state patronage of the arts.”
Krzysztof Czabański, head of Poland's National Media Council and the originator of the annual Public Media Awards. Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik
The award winners are selected by independent panels of leading experts and authorities in each field in recognition of their role in national culture, Czabański told reporters on Monday.
The winners of the 2022 Polish Public Media Awards will be announced on December 5.
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Source: polskieradio.pl/polskieradio.pl, IAR, PAP, TVP Info