A year ago, without registration and without advertising, on Megogo you could watch: TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, Polsat, TV4, TVN, TV Puls, Puls 2, Telewizja WP, Polonia 1, Tele 5, TVS, Stopklatka, Zoom TV, Sportowa.TV, Music Box Polska and Stars.TV. This amounted to 19 stations from various providers. The free package also included: English-language programs: TVP World, DW, France 24, Freedom, Blog for Kids in English and Blog DIY in English.
Free stations in paid package
In February, we reported that TVN, known for its digital terrestrial television, had migrated to paid packages. – We inform you that the list of channels available on free TV and in packages is regulated by the copyright holders of the content. Unfortunately, we cannot influence the content sharing rules set by the copyright owner. Please also note that the content of free TV, packages and the list of content available to the User may be changed by the administrator at any time at its sole discretion without prior notice to the User. Information about this is indicated in the User Agreement in point 6.2.5. We would like to inform you that, in accordance with the decision of the copyright holder, the TVN television channel is currently available in the “Optymalny” and “Maksymalny” packages, – Megogo explained at the time.
Recently, other channels that can be watched for free on terrestrial channels have disappeared from the free package: TVP1 and Polsat. Together with TVN, they become part of the “Starter” package. It costs PLN 9.99 per month or the equivalent of PLN 5.99 if a Megogo user decides to subscribe annually.
Why are TVP1 and Polsat now offered in a paid package? – Free TV is the definition used to describe the testing environment on our platform. The test environment is intended for people who want to familiarize themselves with the Megogo website. Within the test environment, that is, an area not covered by any package, programs, channels and other content are presented, both varying in content and the period in which they are made available. The number of channels available in the packages remains unchanged. Our capabilities allow moving TV channels to different genre-related categories, and each subscriber of one of our packages can create their own arrangement of programs according to individual preferences – the Megogo platform answered our questions on Facebook.
Currently, the “TV without fees” package includes 22 items. These channels are: TV Puls, TV4, TVP2, TVP3, Stopklatka HD, Zoom TV HD, TV Puls 2 HD, Tele 5 HD, Polonia 1 HD, Stars. TV HD, Sportowa.TV, TVS, Telewizja Biznesowa, CTV – Telewizja Dla Młodych, TVP World, France 24 HD (French version), Freedom HD and proprietary stations FAST Megogo: [M] What to watch?, [M] For PT children, [M] do it yourself PT, [M] AliExpress products.
The largest broadcasters have their own streaming services, so they don’t mind their signals being made available for free by competing platforms. All free-to-air channels of Polish television (TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, TVP Info, TVP Sport, TVP Historia, TVP Kultura, TVP Document, TVP Nauka, TVP Mieszka, TVP World, TVP Polonia, TVP Rozrywka, TVP ABC, TVP ABC 2, TVP Kultura 2, TVP Historia, TVP Historia 2) can be found in the TVP VOD and TVP Go apps. Terrestrial stations TVN Warner Bros. Discovery (TVN, TVN7, TTV, Metro) offers Player for free. After the liquidation of Polsat Go, the stations of this broadcaster are no longer available for free broadcast. However, you can get access to them thanks to the Polsat Box Go Start package for PLN 30 per year.
TVP1, TVP2, TVP3, Polsat, TV4, TVN and TV Puls are channels covered by the must carry, must offer principle, which must be offered by all pay-TV or streaming service providers with linear channels registered in Poland. In practice, this varies. Among the websites of the major broadcasters, only Canal+ online offers all the channels on the list. There are no commercial channels on TVP VOD/TVP Go, no TVP and Polsat channels on the Player, and no TVN and TVP stations on Polsat Box Go.
The Megogo platform, which debuted in Poland in January 2023, announced at that time that it was one of the largest providers of digital entertainment in Ukraine and the Commonwealth of Independent States region. In addition to the Starter package, it offers the following packages: Optimal (109 channels – the first 7 days for 1 PLN, then 34.99 PLN per month) and Maximum (136 channels – a week for 1 PLN, then 44.99 PLN per month).
