We've been waiting very loooooong for them as voting on some stations went way overtime (until 3am at one!), and counting the votes is running rather slow, but eventually here they are.
Law and Justice (PiS) - 36.6%, 198 seats
Civic Coalition (KO) - 31.0%, 161
Third Way: 13.5%, 57
New Left: 8.6%, 30
Confederation: 6.4%, 14
@abolitionniste no, 248 for the three democratic opposition parties, 212 for right-wing, 1 for German minority which have a seat guaranteed by law = 460 seats in total.
@abolitionniste@elCelio@kattascha nearly all major Polish media are reporting about the elections, so I thought it should be easy to find one. E.g. look at wp.pl, onet.pl, interia.pl, TVN24.pl, gazeta.pl etc. etc. etc. if you want, I can even give you the PiS-allied sources as well 😂
Uninterrupted live coverage is running even on the main TVN channel, free & nationwide on terrestrial TV.
Also on TVN24 and competing Polsat News, which are both paid... but NOT on "public" #TVPiS disInfo. I'm sure they're processing it "accordingly" though...
Did you know Polish authorities ARE censoring Polish Internet?
Try accessing nczas.com - what do you see? I only see an ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH 🙄
Plenty of snapshots at @internetarchive including four from yesterday...
nczas.com presents viewpoints even further right than PiS' - in particular, it is strongly nationalist & anti-Ukrainian. The blockade is apparently imposed by the Agency of Internal Security (ABW).
Another #BTW 🙃: the PiS rally started with a 90-second clip showing examples of hate speech of Civic Platform politicians, supporters, and attendees of anti-government protests... full of foul language. Uncensored. And broadcast at 1pm on TV.
An "alternative" rally of PiS is starting in Spodek arena in Katowice. Polsat News is showing images from both events in split-screen, eventually switching audio to the PiS event. They could do this as the march is, well... marching 😆
For #TVPiS, the choice is obvious... well, TVN has made one too. But without TVN's goodwill, 1/3 of Poles who don't pay for TV would NOT be able to see one of these rallies live & uncensored. #Democracy#Poland
Tusk says almost a million people are attending the march. That would be twice the June 4 rally's attendance... which was already one of the largest political gatherings in #Poland since 1989 🤯
Also says Roman Dmowski is not his favourite historic figure, because he'd be a PiS' hero. (Dmowski was one of the key persons on top or reborn Poland of 1918, but he was a nationalist...)
Also speaking was Jurek Owsiak of #WOŚP charity, hated & accused of corruption by The Right. #MarszMilionaSerc
#BTW#TVPiS' ticker says there are "only" 100k people at "Tusk's march", including 60k at Dmowski Roundabout.
Again, organizers say the total attendance is near a million.
And Tarczyński says #Poland is the last bastion where you can go out at 10pm, because in Germany they had to set up an emergency committee on walking in parks.
Guys, can you go out at 10pm? And can you visit your local park? 🙃
Physical radio, using real antennas, picking up real radio waves rather than streaming, with all its quirks, limitations, and occasional anomalies 😲.
Currently my main focus is Sporadic-E propagation, which allows FM radio stations, normally restricted to line-of-sight reach, to travel thousands of km's away ✈️
In autumn/fall & winter, my point of interest shifts even further down - to #longwave & #mediumwave bands.
Mediumwave or AM band is actually where the #radio as we know it began 100+ years ago. Lots of people like me got hooked to the hobby by scanning these bands late at night, finding stations from all over Europe of half of the US - and being surprised it works at night only! 🌃
However, #radio is not just FM or digital. There are also several bands down below, offering a range of types of communications - and they're blessed w/ properties FM radio can usually only beg for - continental or even global reach! 🌐
In particular, #shortwave listening can get you hours of entertainment, world news, exotic programming, and mysteries. Oh, and reliable comms between licenced #amateurradio operators 😅
Have your fingers crossed on September 25th as that's when I'm about to take my #amateurradio exam! 👩🏫
I know it's a looooong way from now but I couldn't resist - and I missed the previous date, which was... 2 days after I finally signed-up for that exam 🤦♂️ and when I was doing it it was a Saturday 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Unfortunately, both #longwave and #mediumwave bands are dying in this age, and stations are closing at an unprecedented rate.
But each closure does uncover other stations from distances unimaginable before - here's how WXKS in Boston can sound like here in Poland after UK's Absolute Radio closed in late January 2023.
@bobiko@emill1984@rower z drugiej strony jakby nie patrzeć to tegoroczne Giro nie było w Apulii, Kalabrii ani na Sycylii 😉 no ale przynajmniej w tych dwóch ostatnich było w ub.r. także jest tu jakaś wymienność i zróżnicowanie, którego brakowało w ostatnich latach w TdP
@bobiko@rower@emill1984 jakieś 11-12 lat temu było takie rzadkie wydarzenie jak etap #TdP przebiegający przez moją mieścinę 🙈 w ogóle od tego czasu wyścig gościł na Podlasiu może góra 2 razy... a teraz jestem w szoku że Tour de Śląsk i Małopolska 2023 będzie też w Wielkopolsce 😵
So here we go, and I think this is kinda surprising: #Erdogan#50.83% - #Kilicdaroglu 43.36%. That at least according to state-run TRT. Recent polls had been giving a 4%+ lead for the united opposition candidate...
Oh, and they do insert banner ads in their coverage 🙃
Next:
Ulusal Kanal, they still don't broadcast in HD 😒
Halk TV, showing some scary gathering in Diyarbakir, where #Kilicdaroglu got 72% of votes
TGRT Haber, not sure if I already zapped them
Tele 1, probably the only station, except TRT World, without any sidebars and scoreboards
BTW note #Erdogan's score is now 50.2%, so there's still a chance he falls below 50%... meaning we'll have the 2nd leg 🙂 #Turkey#Turkiye#elections
At 1901z, 360 TV finally rejoined #elections coverage from 24 Haber, both zapped here. 360's ad break was very strange; they were interspersing several short ad strings (1 or 2 spots each) with brief station announcements - of course, with opening & closing jingles for each ad string :)
More screenshots of Turkish #elections TV coverage from:
Star TV, apparently relaying NTV, with their URL shown but not logo
FOX
Beyaz TV
Kanal 7
360 TV, which just went into an ad break
I just stumbled upon a press conference (?) from somebody at AKP party #Turkey#Turkiye