Television in Hungary

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Audience shares of Hungarian TV channels, 2012

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.

Hungarian programming

Utca 13

Universal Channel Hungary

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)

Channels in bold are available in HD.

TV2 Group

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 pilot 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

Regional

Adult

HD TV-Channels

Planned

Defunct or renamed

Rating shares

By channel

The channels with the largest viewing share in 2016 are:[2]

Rank Logo Channel Group Share of total viewing (%)
4+ 18-59
1
RTL Klub.svg
 RTL Klub RTL Group 12.18 17.87
2
TV2 2008.svg
 TV2 TV2 Group 10.77 10.74
3 Duna MTVA 6.13 3.05
4
Cool TV 2014.png
 Cool RTL Group 3.84 5.18
5
File:M1 logo 2012.png
 M1 MTVA 3.32 1.73
6
M4 Sport+ logo.png
 M4 Sport MTVA 3.21 3.96
7
FILM+ logo 2014 Hungary.png
 Film+ RTL Group 3.08 5.41
8
Atv logo 2018.png
 ATV ATV Group 2.71 1.34
9
Super TV2 logo.png
 Super TV2 TV2 Group 2.56 2.89
10
TV3 logo.png
 Viasat 3 Sony Pictures Television 2.53 2.88
11
File:Logo of RTL II (Hungary).png
 RTL II RTL Group 2.12 2.39
12
File:M2 logo 2012.png
 M2 / Petőfi TV MTVA 1.81 1.04
13
Story4 logo.svg
 Story4 Central 1.78 1.38
14
AXN logo (2015).svg
 AXN Sony Pictures Television 1.72 1.89
15
Comedy Central 2011 Logo.svg
 Comedy Central Viacom 1.71 2.05
16
M3D logo 2012.png
 M3 MTVA 1.70 1.56
17
Duna World HD 2012.svg
 Duna World MTVA 1.40 0.93
18
Mozi+ logo.png
 Mozi+ TV2 Group 1.36 2.02
19
Nickelodeon 2009 logo.svg
 Nickelodeon Viacom 1.30 0.58
20
Story 5 logo.png
 Story5 Central 1.08 0.93

By television group

Rank Group Share of total viewing (%)
4+ 18-59
1 RTL Group 24.48 33.03
2 Duna Média (MTVA) 17.23 12.48
3 TV2 Group 16.79 17.21
4 Sony Pictures Television 4.97 5.61
5 Viacom 4.34 3.46
Others 32.19 28.21

Historical rankings

Channel Launched 2018[3]
 2017[4]
 2016
 2015[5]
 2014[6]
 2013[7]
 2012[8]
 2011[9]
RTL Klub 10/1997 10.03 11.03 12.18 13.42 13.90 15.9 17.9 20.3
TV2 10/1997 10.22 10.72 10.77 12.50 14.05 13.6 15.8 18.6
Duna 12/1992 3.98 5.48 6.13 5.54 3.23 2.3 1.9 1.8
Cool 9/2004 2.98 3.33 3.84 4.43 4.10 4.2 4.4 3.6
M1 5/1957 2.93 3.39 3.32 4.04 7.65 8.4 9.2 7.9
Film+ 9/2003 3.18 3.31 3.08 4.12 3.85 3.9 3.5 3.5
Viasat 3 10/2000 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. ^ "2016-os csatornanézettség: a 65 legnézettebb tévécsatorna". thetvhu.blogspot.hu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  3. ^ "2018-as nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  4. ^ "2017-es nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  5. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2015: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu.
  6. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2014: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2013: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 January 2014.
  8. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2012: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 28 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2011: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai TV adó". sorozatwiki.hu. 11 March 2012.
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