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Radio Eska

Radio Eska (stylised as Radio ESKA) is a commercial radio network in Poland. Part of the Time Radio Group, owned by the ZPR Media Group, Eska's sister stations include Eska Rock, Vox FM and Eska2. It is the third radio station in terms of listenership in Poland. The headquarters of Radio ESKA S.A. are located at 10 Jubilerska Street in Warsaw. Eska has organized Polish awards ceremony Eska Music Awards from 2002 until 2017.

Chronology

Origins of broadcasting

Shortly after the fall of communism in Poland, radio stations with names such as 'Radio Eska' or 'Radio S' (phonetically Eska) appeared in three major Polish cities – Wrocław, Warsaw and Poznań, usually continuing the tradition of underground Solidarity radio stations from the communist era.

Despite the similar name and timing of their arrival on the market, the stations were initially formally independent of each other and set up on the initiative of different people. However, as early as 1993, the three then separate stations were taken over by the ZPR Media Group. In 1994, Eska Nord, a local station in the tricity area was established.

Independent stations

Radio Eska Wrocław started its full-time broadcast on 21 March 1993. In 1998, the station broadcast 36 news services per day and had a weekly listenership of around 250,000. Radio S in Poznań began broadcasting on 11 February 1991. The founder of the station and its director until 2000 was Krystyna Laskowicz, an activist of the anti-communist underground during the communist period.

Radio Eska Warszawa began broadcasting on 18 June 1990 (or 22 May 1990; disputed). At the beginning, the station had a journalistic character. However, competition in the market forced a slow transformation into a spoken word and music station. In the 1990s, the radio station broadcast mainly lighter rock and pop music and programmes featuring disco polo music, popular in Poland at the time, but also programmes featuring Russian songs, and one could also hear the hits of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Creation of the national network

When the Radio Eska stations were taken over by the ZPR Media Group at the beginning of 1993, efforts were made to build a nationwide radio network on the basis of the radio stations they owned. The first step in this direction was the creation of the Super FM network, bringing together over a dozen local stations.

Eska Nord was not included in the emerging network. Instead, it was decided to build a completely new station Eska Trójmiasto on the basis of the previously acquired radio station, Radio ARnet. Due to the similarity of the names of the two stations, there was a dispute between the owners of the two stations, which was eventually resolved by changing the name of Radio Eska Trójmiasto to Hit FM. Radio Hit FM implemented the format of the Eska network, but because it had a different name to the rest of the stations on the network, it had a completely separate programme production team. This situation lasted until 2008, when Radio Eska Nord (which was taken over) changed its name to RMF Maxx Trójmiasto - this allowed ZPR to change the name of Radio Hit FM back to the earlier name Eska Trójmiasto.

List of Eska stations

Currently, Eska's network consists of 43 local stations:

  1. Radio ESKA Bełchatów – 89,4 MHz
  2. Radio ESKA Beskidy – 97 MHz (broadcasting from Żywiec)
  3. Radio ESKA Białystok – 90,6 MHz
  4. Radio ESKA Braniewo – 100,7 MHz
  5. Radio ESKA Bydgoszcz – 94,4 MHz
  6. Radio ESKA Elbląg – 94,1 MHz
  7. Radio ESKA Gorzów – 93,8 MHz
  8. Radio ESKA Grudziądz – 90,6 MHz
  9. Radio ESKA Iława – 89 MHz
  10. Radio ESKA Jelenia Góra – 90,2 MHz
  11. Radio ESKA Ostrów-Kalisz:
  12. * Kalisz – 101,1 MHz
  13. * Ostrów Wielkopolski – 89,3 MHz
  14. Radio ESKA Kielce – 103,3 MHz
  15. Radio ESKA Koszalin:
  16. * Koszalin – 95,9 MHz
  17. * Kołobrzeg – 107,2 MHz
  18. Radio ESKA Kraków – 97,7 MHz
  19. Radio ESKA Kraśnik – 92,8 MHz
  20. Radio ESKA Leszno – 102 MHz
  21. Radio ESKA Lublin – 103,6 MHz
  22. Radio ESKA Łomża – 88,8 MHz
  23. Radio ESKA Łódź – 90,1 MHz
  24. Radio ESKA Małopolska:
  25. * Bochnia – 106,8 MHz
  26. * Nowy Sącz – 106,8 MHz
  27. * Zakopane – 106,8 MHz
  28. Radio ESKA Olsztyn – 89,9 MHz
  29. Radio ESKA Opole – 90,8 MHz
  30. Radio ESKA Ostrzeszów – 96,9 MHz
  31. Radio ESKA Piła – 105,6 MHz
  32. Radio ESKA Płock – 95,2 MHz
  33. Radio ESKA Poznań – 93 MHz
  34. Radio ESKA Południe:
  35. * Bielsko-Biała – 97,6 MHz
  36. * Cieszyn – 90,5 MHz
  37. * Gliwice – 93,4 MHz
  38. * Oświęcim – 94,9 MHz
  39. * Ustroń - 107,1 MHz
  40. Radio ESKA Przemyśl – 90,3 MHz
  41. Radio ESKA Radom – 106,9 MHz
  42. Radio ESKA Rzeszów:
  43. * Krosno – 104,9 MHz
  44. * Rzeszów – 99,4 MHz
  45. * Sanok – 89,5 MHz
  46. * Ustrzyki Dolne – 106,5 MHz
  47. Radio ESKA Siedlce – 96,8 MHz
  48. Radio ESKA Starachowice – 102,1 MHz
  49. Radio ESKA Suwałki — 89,4 MHz
  50. Radio ESKA Szczecin – 96,9 MHz
  51. Radio ESKA Szczecinek:
  52. * Szczecinek – 99 MHz
  53. * Łobez – 106,5 MHz
  54. Radio ESKA Śląsk – 99,1 MHz (broadcasting from Katowice)
  55. Radio ESKA Tarnów – 98,1 MHz
  56. Radio ESKA Trójmiasto:
  57. * Gdańsk – 94,6 MHz
  58. * Gdynia – 90,7 MHz
  59. Radio ESKA Toruń – 104,6 MHz
  60. Radio ESKA Warszawa – 105,6 MHz
  61. Radio ESKA Wrocław:
  62. * Jelenia Góra – 90,2 MHz
  63. * Wrocław – 97,4 MHz; 104,9 MHz
  64. Radio ESKA Zamość – 97,3 MHz
  65. Radio ESKA Zielona Góra – 105,7 MHz
  66. Radio ESKA Żary - 106,6 MHz

Listenership

According to a Radio Track study (carried out by Millward Brown SMG/KRC), Radio Eska's share in terms of listening, in the period from October to December 2025, was 6.7 per cent, which gave the station third place in terms of listenership in Poland.

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