Cyfra Plus

"Cyfra+" is a Polish digital satellite platform. It offers 600 radio and TV channels. 40 of these are dedicated for Polish audience. The remaining ones are free-to-air from Hot Bird and Astra satellites. Due to the availability of original sound tracks, Cyfra+ is an excellent TV platform for foreigners who stay in Poland, as well as for students of languages.

English language offer includes:

• 5 major news channels (BBC World, CNN, Fox News, EuroNews, CNBC)
• 5 movie channels (two HBO channels, two Canal+ channels, and Hallmark)
• 6 educational channels (4 Discovery channels, National Geographic and Animal Planet)
• BBC Prime[?] and BBC Learning
• Bloomberg and CNBC
• Eurosport[?]
• Cartoon Networks and TCM
• religious channels
• TVN24 news from Poland in English 20:30 CET (15 minutes)

The offer includes multiple radio channels, original Polish TV channels, TV channels from throughout Europe, Asia and Middle East, and more. By June 2003, Cyfra+ had 1.5 million subscribers (twice as many as in the same time of 2002).

Interestingly, During Gulf War 2, coverage was available from Al Jhazeera[?], multiple Arabic channels as well as ... official Saddam channel: Iraqi TV.