Launched on 30 November 2012, TVN24 is the longest-established HD news channel in Poland and East-Central Europe.
During major events (such as September 11 attacks, Pope John Paul II's death, the Polish presidential plane crash, Lex TVN controversy and Russian invasion of Ukraine), TVN24 is retransmitted by TVN which has much wider broadcast range.
Since Liberty Global, which operates pay television services in Poland under the UPC Polska brand, is a major shareholder in Discovery Inc, EU competition law required that Discovery ensures the continued availability of TVN24 and TVN24 BiS to third-party TV providers.
[4] Historian and columnist Timothy Garton Ash has praised Fakty TVN, writing that it is far more professional than Telewizja Polska's (TVP) Wiadomości (News).
[5] Ash wrote in 2019: "The Facts is not BBC-style impartial: it clearly favours a more liberal, pro-European Poland and is strongly anti-PiS.