Radio ZET
Polish Commercial radio station
Radio Zet (Polish pronunciation: [radjɔ zɛt]) is a Polish commercial radio station launched in 1990, as the second privately owned radio in Poland. Since 2023, its majority shareholder has been Agora SA.
History
Radio Zet was established in Warsaw, and aired its first broadcast on the 28th of September 1990. The station's founder and its first editor-in-chief was a prominent journalist Andrzej Wojciechowski.
In the first weeks of the radio station's operation, the slogan and audio signal (identifier) “Radio Gazeta” could be heard. During the 1990 election campaign, in order to maintain political independence, the founders of the radio station decided to change its name to Radio Zet (intentionally keeping the accented syllable of the original name).
Initially, Agora was the major shareholder (90%) of Radio Gazeta Company. Subsequently, Agora retained a 10% stake, and the remaining 90% was distributed among the co-founders. Soon the majority of the radio station's shares were taken over by Andrzej Woyciechowski's new company affiliated with the French media conglomerate Lagardère, owner of the French station Europe 1, among others.
Initially, the station rented premises in the then headquarters of the Polish Economic Society at Nowy Świat 49 in Warsaw. In the spring of 1992, Radio Zet moved and occupied two floors of the building at Piękna 66a.
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