Public Media Offers Equal Coverage to All Parties, CEO Says The Chief Executive of Hungary's Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), Daniel Papp, informed the European Commission delegates... 2023.02.10.
Opposition Reluctant to Accept Invitations to Public Media Recent data published by the public media broadcaster MTVA shows that while the opposition complains that they do not get... 2022.12.02.
Opposition Demonstrates with Torches At Hungarian Public Broadcaster Opposition MP Ákos Hadházy organised a demonstration in front of the Hungarian public broadcaster, MTVA headquarters on Friday, attracting some... 2022.11.07.
Hungarian Public Media Budget Cut by Billions Even though Hungarian public media often gets criticized for being pro-government, especially when Western media outlets try to explain the... 2022.10.25.
Press Roundup: Weeklies on the Elections – with Two Weeks’ Hindsight Commentators still struggle to find consistent explanations for the fourth consecutive electoral victory of Fidesz on 3 April. There is... 2022.04.25.
Pro-Gov’t Journalist: “State Media too Politically Biased, this Is Untenable” After the elections, the taxpayer-funded state media (MTVA) recorded an interesting turn of events: after not inviting opposition politicians or... 2022.04.13.
Far-Right Mi Hazánk on State Television: “We Were Last Here 2 Years Ago” It has been two years since his party last appeared on state television, with this remark the leader of the... 2022.03.31.
Press Roundup: OSCE Observers Release Negative Interim Report on Campaign Conditions in Hungary Pro-government outlets see the interim report by OSCE observers as heavily biased. The nationwide left-wing daily finds such rebuttals hypocritical.... 2022.03.25.
MTVA: OSCE ‘Trying to Drag Hungarian Public Media into Politics’ with ‘Pre-Judged’ Report The OSCE's interim report which refers to the state of Hungarian public media in connection with its mission to monitor... 2022.03.24.
Opposition PM Candidate Márki-Zay Allowed at State Television for First Time Péter Márki-Zay, the joint opposition's candidate for prime minister, was allowed to speak for five minutes on the state-owned media... 2022.03.16.
After Four Years of Neglect, State Media Gives Five Minutes to Each Opposition Party before Election The six opposition parties held a demonstration in front of the state media headquarters (MTVA) over the weekend against a... 2022.03.12.
Ukrainian War – Opposition: Election Choice between East and West, War and Peace Hungarians will have to make a choice between East and West and between war and peace when they head to... 2022.03.07.
Ukraine Crisis: Public Media to Launch Donation Drive Hungary's public media provider MTVA on Saturday announced the launch of a donation drive to assist people in trouble because... 2022.02.26.
OSCE Election Experts Meet Heads of Election Office and Committee Attila Nagy, head of the national election office NVI and András Téglási, head of the national election committee NVB, met... 2022.01.19.
MTVA Chief and Polish TV Official Discuss Public Media Cooperation Dániel Papp, the chief executive of Hungary's public media provider MTVA, discussed the possibility of expanding programme exchange, joint programme... 2021.12.18.
EBU Slams State Media for Lack of Trust; CEO Says ‘Slanderous Statements’ Published without Verification A recent report of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has established that the Hungarian state media has the lowest trust... 2021.12.07.
EU to Set Up News Agency Against Fake News, Leaves Out Hungary’s State Media The European Union wants to take up the fight against fake news by setting up a joint news agency in... 2021.12.04.
Public Media’s Person of the Year Award Handed Over to Biochemist Karikó Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Kariko, whose decades of work with mRNA technology was instrumental in the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19... 2021.05.19.
Hungarian Biochemist Katalin Karikó Wins Public Media’s Person of the Year Award Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, a senior vice president at German biopharmaceutical company BioNTech, is the inaugural winner of the Public... 2020.12.30.
Public Television Leaked Recordings: Authorities See No Reason for Investigation Back in November, quoting a leaked audio recording, news portal Free Europe (Szabad Európa) claimed that the public media has... 2020.12.09.
Based on Leaked Audio Recordings, Hungarian Public Television Has Been Setting Political Direction Quoting a leaked audio recording, news portal Free Europe (Szabad Európa) claims that it has been said in the public... 2020.11.13.
