Television in Hungary

Television in Hungary was introduced in 1957. Transmission in colour was introduced to Hungarian television for the first time in 1971. Hungary had only one television channel until 1973. It was only in the mid 1990s when private and commercial broadcasting was introduced to Hungary.

Audience shares of Hungarian TV channels, 2012

Free-to-air television channels broadcasting in Hungary

Free-to-air on DVB-T

Free-to-air on analogue

Analogue broadcasting in Hungary was phased out in two phases that were completed on July 31 and October 31, 2013, respectively.[1] However, analogue broadcasting is still active as of August 2021 in the Balaton area, at least.

Free-to-air on satellite

Hungarian channels by groups

Duna Média (MTVA)
  • DUNA: 0-24: National main channel of Hungary, since March 15, 2015. Started in 1992. Available in HD.
  • M1: 0-24: News channel, since March 15, 2015. It was the national main channel before, started in 1957. Available in HD.
  • M2 / M2 Petőfi: 6-20: Kids channel since December 22, 2012, 20-6: Entertainment since March 15, 2015. Started in 1973. Available in HD.
  • M3: 0-24: Retro channel started in late 2013. closed in 2019, available only on internet as m3.hu Available in HD.
  • M4 Sport: 0-24: Sport channel started in 2015. Available in HD.
  • M4 Sport+ Sports channel, weekends on Duna World from 14h to 22h.
  • M5: 0-24: Started on August 6, 2016, as sport channel, (also called M5 Sport) because of the Rio Olympics 2016 and Rio Paralympics 2016, as cultural channel since September 18, 2016. (It was planned as a regional channel.) Available in HD.
  • Duna World: International channel of Hungary, since April 16, 2006. Available in HD.
  • M6: Planned as a regional channel. MTVA doesn't plan to launch it in the following years.
  • M3D: In the summer of 2012 it was the 3D channel of MTVA.
  • M4K: Planned as a 4K channel.

RTL Magyarország (RTL Group)
  • RTL: The most popular commercial channel in Hungary.
  • Cool, Film+, RTL Kettő, RTL Három, Sorozat+, RTL Gold: premium series' and films' channels
  • Muzsika TV: Hungarian music

Channels in bold are available in HD.

TV2 Group
  • TV2: One of main commercial channel in Hungary.
  • TV2 Séf, FEM3, Jocky TV, Moziverzum, TV2 Comedy, Izaura TV, TV2 Kids, PRIME, Mozi+, Super TV2, Spiler1 TV, Spiler2 TV: premium series', films' and sport channels
  • Zenebutik: Hungarian music

Channels in bold are available in HD.

National Channels
  • Duna: Main national channel, started broadcasting on 24 December 1992 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • Duna World: International channel, started broadcasting on 16 April 2006 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • M1: News channel since 15 March 2015, started broadcasting on 1 May 1957 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • M2: Kids channel between 6:00 am and 8:00 pm since 22 December 2012, M2 Petőfi between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am on 15 March 2015, started broadcasting in 7 November 1973 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • M3: Entertainment channel, started broadcasting on 20 December 2013, closed as a TV channel on 1 May 2019 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • M4 Sport: Sports channel, started broadcasting on 18 July 2015. (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • M4 Sport+: Sports channel, started broadcasting on weekends in place of Duna World between 2:00 pm and 10:00 pm on 12 September 2020.
  • M5: Cultural channel since 18 September 2016, started broadcasting as a sports channel from 5 August to 18 September 2016 (due to the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Free-to-air on DVB-T).

National commercial channels
  • TV2: Main channel, started broadcasting on 4 October 1997 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).
  • RTL: Main channel, started test broadcasting as RTL Klub on 7 October 1997 and officially on 27 October 1997 (Free-to-air on DVB-T).

National commercial premium channels

Cable channels

General and entertainment

News and politics

Sport

Movies

Series and telenovellas

Documentary

Animals

Travel and lifestyle

Culinary

Children & families

Music

Religion
  • EWTN/Bonum TV (catholic - Also available on DVB-T2)
  • PAX TV (catholic)
  • Heti TV (Jewish) (Also available on DVB-T2)

Regional
  • Csepp TV
  • Csaba TV
  • DSTV Hungary
  • Főnix TV
  • Gyula Televízió
  • Kölcsey TV
  • Keszthely TV
  • Pannon TV
  • Williams TV

Adult

HD TV-Channels
• European Telelvisions HD

Planned

Defunct or renamed

Most viewed channels

Most viewed channels for 2022 are:[2]

RankChannelGroupShare of total viewing (%)
1TV2TV2 Group11.5
2RTLRTL Group7.5
3ATVATV Group3.2
4DunaMTVA3.0
5M1
6Mozi+TV2 Group2.7
7M4 SportMTVA
8Izaura TVTV2 Group2.4
9Prime TV2.3
10Film+RTL Group
11Hir TVHir TV2.1
12Super TV2TV2 Group
13CoolRTL Group
14RTL Kettő1.8
15Comedy CentralParamount Networks1.3
16Sorozat+RTL Group1.2
17Viasat 3Antenna Group1.1
18TV4Central
19Story4
20Galaxy4

Historical rankings
Channel Launched 2022[3] 2021[4] 2020[5] 2019[6] 2018[7]
 2017[8]
 2016
 2015[9]
 2014[10]
 2013[11]
 2012[12]
 2011[13]
TV2 10/1997 11.5 11.2 11.0 10.3 10.22 10.72 10.77 12.50 14.05 13.6 15.8 18.6
RTL 10/1997 7.5 8.7 9.2 9.6 10.03 11.03 12.18 13.42 13.90 15.9 17.9 20.3
Duna 12/1992 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.98 5.48 6.13 5.54 3.23 2.3 1.9 1.8
M1 5/1957 3.0 2.8 3.1 2.8 2.93 3.39 3.32 4.04 7.65 8.4 9.2 7.9
Cool 9/2004 2.1 2.4 2.8 2.3 2.98 3.33 3.84 4.43 4.10 4.2 4.4 3.6
Film+ 9/2003 2.3 2.5 3.0 2.9 3.18 3.31 3.08 4.12 3.85 3.9 3.5 3.5
Viasat 3 10/2000 1.1 1.4 1.7 1.5 1.82 1.87 2.53 2.96 2.65 2.8 3.8 3.6

See also

References
  1. "Hogyan készüljünk a digitális átállásra?".
  2. https://mtva.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2023/05/MTVA_2022_besz%C3%A1mol%C3%B3_MT_d%C3%B6nt%C3%A9ssel.pdf
  3. https://mtva.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2023/05/MTVA_2022_besz%C3%A1mol%C3%B3_MT_d%C3%B6nt%C3%A9ssel.pdf
  4. https://dunamsz.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/10/DMSZ_vezerigazgatoi_beszamolo_2021.pdf
  5. https://mtva.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2021/06/MTVA-2020_%C3%A9vi_besz%C3%A1mol%C3%B3_k%C3%B6zz%C3%A9tenni.pdf
  6. https://mtva.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2021/06/MTVA-2020_%C3%A9vi_besz%C3%A1mol%C3%B3_k%C3%B6zz%C3%A9tenni.pdf
  7. "2018-as nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  8. "2017-es nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  9. "Csatornanézettség - 2015: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu.
  10. "Csatornanézettség - 2014: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 February 2015.
  11. "Csatornanézettség - 2013: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 January 2014.
  12. "Csatornanézettség - 2012: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 28 February 2013.
  13. "Csatornanézettség - 2011: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai TV adó". sorozatwiki.hu. 11 March 2012.
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