Agora Spółka Akcyjna or Agora SA (Agora Joint Stock Company

Joint stock company

A joint-stock company is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company...

) is a Polish media company.

It is owner or co-owner of:

• a national daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza
  Gazeta Wyborcza
  Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...
  
  ,
• a daily called Metro in several large Polish cities,
• 3 regional weeklies,
• 14 national colour magazines,
• 29 local one super-regional radio stations, including TOK FM, Roxy FM, Złote Przeboje, Blue FM
• a national outdoor advertising agency AMS,
• a major internet portal Gazeta.pl and an announcement website Aaaby.pl which is one of the largest on the Polish market.

In 2002 Agora tried to buy the national Polish television station Polsat

Polsat

Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

. During this period the corruption scandal known as the Rywin affair

Rywin affair

The Rywin affair was a corruption scandal in Poland, which began in late 2002 while the post communist government of the SLD was in power...

, which involved relations between media and a law passing through parliament, occurred.

In 2005 Agora brought out a new daily Nowy Dzień but stopped printing it after a few months due to low sales.

External links

• Agora SA
• AMS
• Gazeta.pl
• Metro
• TOK FM
• Aaaby.pl
• Agora – analysis by Paweł Pasionek o stanie spółki Agora S.A.
• Information about the stocks