Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy dismissed from position of Belsat TV director

The for­mer head of the inde­pen­dent TV chan­nel report­ed this on her Face­book page.

Agniesz­ka Romaszews­ka-Guzy. Pho­to: from per­son­al archive

On March 8, Agniesz­ka Romaszews­ka-Guzy, the for­mer direc­tor of Bel­sat, stat­ed that the TV channel’s bud­get had been reduced by almost 50%. Today, she announced on her social media that she was fired after 17 years of work­ing at the TV chan­nel and 32 years at TVP. Ali­ak­sei Dzikav­it­s­ki, one of the founders of the chan­nel and Romaszewska-Guzy’s cur­rent deputy, will take over her duties.

“The Min­istry of For­eign Affairs has decid­ed to cut the TV channel’s bud­get by 47%, and as a result, there are plans to divide the channel’s shows. Russ­ian-lan­guage pro­grams will like­ly be moved to TVP World. In my opin­ion, this deci­sion is a sig­nif­i­cant mis­take and a fun­da­men­tal vio­la­tion of the con­cept that has been devel­oped over the years.

Bel­sat was a valu­able asset for Poland as a sta­tion direct­ed towards the East, espe­cial­ly in the cur­rent dif­fi­cult and poten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous inter­na­tion­al sit­u­a­tion. It would be a mis­take to dis­man­tle such a unique project, which is the only TVP chan­nel found­ed from the ground up and main­ly run by its employ­ees,” shared Romaszews­ka-Guzy.

It is worth not­ing that Belsat’s areas of work include:

• Belaru­sian news­room;
• Russ­ian news­room;
• Edit­ing of pro­grams;
• Inter­net news por­tal in Belaru­sian;
• Online news por­tal “Vot­Tak” in Russ­ian;
• Pol­ish lan­guage online news por­tal;
• Eng­lish lan­guage online news por­tal;
• Pro­gram prepa­ra­tion and cura­tor­ship;
• Social media depart­ment;
• YouTube sup­port depart­ment;
• Teletech­nics and infor­mat­ics depart­ment;
• Eco­nom­ics depart­ment;
• Audi­ence ana­lyt­ics depart­ment.

Agniesz­ka Romaszews­ka-Guzy, who was born in War­saw, grad­u­at­ed from the Fac­ul­ty of His­to­ry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw. She co-found­ed the Nation­al Com­mit­tee of Inde­pen­dent Stu­dent Orga­ni­za­tion with her hus­band Jarosław Guzy. While pur­su­ing her doc­tor­al stud­ies in the Unit­ed States, she interned in the Amer­i­can media. Since 1992, she has been employed by Pol­ish nation­al tele­vi­sion.