A leading independent television broadcaster in Poland is expressing concern that the state broadcasting regulator has not yet renewed a license that expires next year for its main channel.

The fallout from an explosive Polish TV report alleging that St. John Paul II covered up clergy sex abuses cases is escalating.

Poles flocked to city centers across the country to defend a U.S.-owned television network that is being targeted by the right-wing government.

Poland’s Senate voted has rejected a media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned television network’s ability to keep broadcasting independent news.

An executive with Discovery Inc. says the U.S.-owned company will fight hard to keep control of a television network it owns in Poland, a $3 billion investment that is threatened by a new media bill that passed in parliament this week.

Poland’s parliament has voted in favor of a bill that would force Discovery Inc., the U.S. owner of Poland’s largest private television network, to sell its Polish holdings.

Poles have demonstrated against a bill widely viewed as a effort by the country’s nationalist ruling party to silence an independent, U.S.-owned broadcaster that is critical of the government.

Proposed legislative changes that would ban non-European ownership of Polish media have angered critics, who say they target the U.S. company Discovery Inc. that owns the TVN broadcaster which is openly critical of the right-wing government.

Protesters with signs reading "Free Media" gather before Poland's state TVP building in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Independent media outlets in Poland suspended news coverage and other programming Wednesday to protest a planned new advertising tax that they view as an attempt by the country's right-wing government to undermine press freedoms. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)WARSAW – Independent media outlets in Poland suspended news coverage and other programming Wednesday to protest a planned new advertising tax that they view as an attempt by the country's right-wing government to undermine press freedoms. The government says the “solidarity” tax would raise money to bolster state finances badly strained by the coronavirus pandemic. But 45 media companies signed a letter that said they already pay many taxes and that the advertising tax could push some to collapse.