Radio TOK FM is Poland's first news and talk radio, with spoken word representing ca. 90 percent of all programming. It is currently present in 23 urban areas: Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Katowice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Płock, Radom, Rzeszów, Sieradz / Zduńska Wola, Szczecin, Tarnowskie Góry, Toruń, Warsaw and Wrocław, as well as worldwide - via the tokfm.pl web portal and the TOK FM mobile application (application available on Android and iOS), where you can streamvRadio TOK FM live and listen to TOK FM podcasts.
Every 20 minutes the station broadcasts news and its other programming includes commentary and programmes dedicated to selected topics, including "Poranek Radia TOK FM”, "EKG - ekonomia, kapitał, gospodarka”, "A teraz na poważnie”, "Wywiad polityczny”, "Analizy”, "Off Czarek”, "Połączenie”, "Światopodgląd”, "Codzienny magazyn motoryzacyjny”, "Kultura osobista”, "Kwadrans filozofa”, "Andymateria”, "Przy niedzieli o sporcie” and "Przewodnik Technologiczny Radia TOK FM”. It is at least 19 hours of premiere program broadcast on weekdays and 17 hours on weekends. As part of over 100 cyclical broadcasts and podcasts, the station addresses important and interesting topics, including health, ecology, motoring, women's rights, violence, history, economics, HR, as well as philosophy, art, animals and new technologies.
Broadcasts and podcasts are run by well-known and popular Polish journalists and specialists in various fields. TOK FM's voices include Agnieszka Lichnerowicz, Maciej Głogowski, Jacek Żakowski, Dominika Wielowieyska, Piotr Najsztub, Anda Rottenberg, Jan Wróbel, Piotr Kraśko, Daniel Passent, Dorota Sumińska, Tomasz Stawiszyński, Anna Wacławik-Orpik, Karolina Lewicka, Karolina Głowacka, Przemysław Iwaczyk, Piotr Maślak, Marta Perchuć-Burzyńska, Hanna Zielińska, Cezary Łasiczka, Paweł Sulik. Music serves as background for the spoken word and is represented mainly by mainstream, jazz, funk, soul and folk.
The station’s programming is addressed to listeners who seek reliable and exhaustive information about Poland, people who are interested in getting deeper insights into important matters from premium commentators. The TOK FM listener profile is a large city dweller with higher or secondary education, actively engaged in the political, economic and cultural life of the country. TOK FM has been broadcasting on the Polish market since 1998 and since 2003 as “the first news and talk radio”.
Since 2011, Radio TOK FM has been awarding the Anna Laszuk Award for exceptional impact on reality. Previous winners include: Michał Boni, Danuta Wałęsa, Katarzyna Szymielewicz and the Panoptykon Foundation, Adam Bodnar and the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations, Black Protest / All-Poland Women's Strike, Defenders of the Białowieża Forest and the Free Courts Initiative.
The news website tokfm.pl has been available since 2010. The website offers its own text-based information materials: political, business, sports, cultural and entertainment, as well as podcasts and video materials, including live video reports of selected broadcasts. Thanks to Radio TOK FM Archive, it is possible to find programmes from the station's extensive collection of original programmes and listen to them in the form of podcasts.
Radio TOK FM also offers its listeners Premium TOK FM Access, which allows users to access the entire database of programmes and podcasts and create personalised playlists. Users of Premium TOK FM Access can listen to their favourite programmes and podcasts at the time and place of their choice.
The team of Radio TOK FM also prepared two mobile applications: the Radio TOK FM application, which allows listening to the station's programme live and using Premium TOK FM Access, and Mikrofon TOK FM - an application for listeners and commentators of Radio TOK FM, which enables them to record their own statements, comments and reports and then send them from their smartphone directly to the radio's editorial office. The TOK FM Microphone app was developed as part of the Prototype Projects funding obtained in the first edition of the Google Digital News Initiative (DNI) programme.