POLISH TV on Channel 23
Reach an Ever-Growing Audience!!!

POLISH TV serves the polish community in Chicago. Our mission is to be a true community service roadcaster. Our goal is to present local programming which meets the needs of polish community in Chicago land area.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 40 distinct ethnic groups in the Chicago land area and the Polish community is one of the biggest ethnic populations. Polish group represents over 1 million people in Chicago and its outlaying suburbs.

The need for a station of this unique nature can be attributed to the growth in Chicago’s ethnic population. As the multi-cultural groups grow, advertisers, marketers and others are realizing the economic potential of sending their message to this audience.

POLISH TV is an extremely targeted, yet cost efficient vehicle available to businesses trying to reach the Polish community group. Moreover, we can deliver this highly desirable audience more effectively and efficiently than even the most targeted publications or broadcast media due to Polish TV on objective.

POLISH TV offers local, national and international news, public affairs, and panel discussions with community leaders as well as entertainment and children’s programming. Our viewers are able to receive vital information and entertainment from their homeland.

Additionally, they receive culturally significant information pertinent to their lives in Chicago thorough locally produced programming. No other Polish TV station in Chicago provides this service as extensively as POLISH TV.

POLISH TV has experience, knowledge and facilities to deliver quality service to you. We hope to be of continually greater service to you and your audience. We look forward to a most prosperous future together.                                                          

ABOUT CHANNEL Polvision….
Ø     the number one station serving the multi-cultural community in the Chicago area. Channel  transmits from atop of the Sears Tower, the world’s tallest building – over 1,555 feet above ground level.
Øhas a potential audience of 6,400,000+ of the estimated 8 million people in our ADI.

Ø is one of the most powerful low power stations in the United States and it covers the Chicago market much better than ever. If you check around, you will find the reception is much better in almost all locations including the suburbs.

What this means for you is a substantially larger number of POLISH viewers

• RCN 21st CENTURY – Channel position 14
• AMERICAST CABLE – Suburban Channel position 19
• AMERICAST CABLE – Chicago Channel position 17

RCN 21st Century Cable has thousands of subscribers and is continuing its expanding coverage from 5500 South to the border of Evanston. These areas encompass Lincoln Park, The Loop, Near North, Lakeview, Uptown, Westridge, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Oakland, Skokie also high rise hook-ups in Wheeling, Oak Park, Maywood, Naperville, Frankfort, Lemont, Palentine, Niles, and Northbrook.

POLISH COMMUNITY OVERVIEW

(1,000,000 POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS)

• The largest Polish American population in the United States – over 1.1 million people reside within the Channel 23 broadcast radius.
• Over 300,000 Chicagoland residents speak Polish only. For an additional half-million, Polish is the preferred language.
• The Polish community has undergone rapid changes. The political and economic immigration has brought to the United States thousands of highly qualified and educated Polish people.
• The economic status of the Polish community has risen rapidly. According to Professor Andrew Greely (University of Chicago) and Professor Thomas Sowell (UCLA), the average income of the Polish family exceeds the United States average income by 15%.
• It is estimated that the number of Polish owned businesses has increased by approximately 650% since 1980. 
• The Polish community has the highest percentage of home owners within Chicagoland, which proves both its purchasing potential and its growing needs.