Dziennik Telewizyjny

'Journal'), is a Polish daily television news program that was produced and broadcast by Telewizja Polska (TP; now abbreviated as TVP) between 1958 and 1989, during the time Poland was under communist dictatorship.

The show's 31-year legacy can be seen in Poland today among the older generation, who often refers to every contemporary news program as "Dziennik", including newspapers and popular media.

[1] The origins of Polish television date back to the late 1930s when numerous tests were carried out on top of the Warsaw Prudential building to transmit monochrome images at a 20-kilometer radius.

The abbreviation for the program was "DTV" until the late 1970s (when it was shortened to just "DT"), but the show became widely known as the Dziennik (English: Journal) to the general public for the next three decades.

The 55 km-range signal antenna in the shape of a butterfly was situated on the spire of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, at an altitude of 227 meters.

[10] Under martial law in Poland, from December 1981 Dziennik was presented by officers of the Polish Armed Forces or newsreaders in military uniforms and broadcast 24-hours a day.

Similar newscasts were used for identical purposes were present in all countries of the Eastern Bloc, most known being Aktuelle Kamera from the German Democratic Republic and Vremya from the Soviet Union.

[15] Dziennik was known to be strikingly objective about world affairs and, almost in every case, each episode featured a coverage from foreign countries where corruption, war and scandals were abundant.

The anchors rarely smiled and addressed guests or referred to people as obywatelu ("citizen", equivalent to comrade in other communist states) instead of Pan/Pani (Sir/Mrs) – T–V distinction.

The situation was unusual as the TV anchor agreed to Szczepkowska's message on a communist-funded program, which glorified Marxism-Leninism and socialism for decades.