Jaroslaw Hasinski was selected as chairman of Polskie Radio’s Board of Directors last night at a meeting of the Supervisory Board.

Mr. Hasinski has been acting chairman for the past three months since changes to the board were made in the summer.

Jaroslaw Hasinski has 26-year experience in media management, including eight years at Poland’s public television broadcaster TVP.

Hasinski started his career in the academic Winogrady radio station and later managed the commercial Radio Fan and was a member of Radio Merkury’s supervisory board.

He was also in charge of the Poznan branch of TVP and worked as the head of the TV Studio of Animated Films and the Television Broadcast Production Agency.

He was granted the Ostre Pioro award by the Business Center Club for developing Polish business.  

Since mid-September, Hasinski has been acting president of Polskie Radio.

His appointment comes at a time of extreme financial difficulties for the public broadcaster revenue from license fees plummets. (pg/mg)