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 state news agency PAP is in charge of the Printed Word award.
In 2021, 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 22,600, USD 24,100).
This year's nominees in the Music category are saxophonist Piotr Baron, singer Marek Piekarczyk, and multi-instrumentalist Maria Pomianowska.
Piotr Baron. Photo: Cezary Piwowarski/Polish Radio
Marek Piekarczyk. Photo: PAP/Łukasz Gągulski
Maria Pomianowska. Photo: Cezary Piwowarski/PR
Polish Radio CEO Agnieszka Kamińska said at a news conference earlier this week that the nominees represented a variety of music genres, including classical music, pop, jazz and folk.
Polish Radio CEO Agnieszka Kamińska attends a press conference in Warsaw on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Photo: PAP/Kalbar
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."
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 has told reporters.
The winners of the 2023 Polish Public Media Awards will be announced on Sunday.
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Source: polskieradio.pl/polskieradio24.pl, IAR, PAP, TVP Info