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.
US Human Rights Report: Fundamental Rights Respected in Hungary but Excercised in ‘Adverse Climate’ The latest annual human rights report of the United States has been published, in which the situation in Hungary is... 2022.04.19.
Almost a Third of Opposition Voters Believed Márki-Zay Would Take Hungary to War, Survey Finds Even a considerable number of opposition voters recognized some of the often unfounded or false statements about the opposition made... 2022.04.14.
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.
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.
Satirical Party on State TV: Sympathizer Spoke Live with “Wife” by Phone Instead of Introducing Party For the first time in four years, the Two Tailed Dog Party (MKKP) was allowed to speak on state-funded public... 2022.03.23.
Covid-Skeptic Vlogger Gődény Presents His Newly Created Party’s Program In Public Media Bodybuilder, pharmacist, and Covid skeptic György Gődény was also given five minutes in the state media ahead of the upcoming... 2022.03.17.
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.
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.
Public Media Collects Over HUF 345 m for Covid Orphans The public media's charity programme dubbed Good to be good has raised funds totalling 345 million forints (EUR 939,000), the... 2021.12.20.
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.
Commission Plans New Media Rules in EU, Hungarian Media Landscape May Be a Reason The European Commission plans to introduce rules next year to prevent a few large media groups from acquiring smaller rivals... 2021.12.08.
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.
DK Sues Public Media for ‘Presenting Elk*rtuk Feature Film’s Conspiracy Theory as Fact’ The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) decided to sue the public media after one of the radio hosts was talking about... 2021.10.28.
CoE Commissioner Calls on Hungary to ‘Restore’ Press Freedom Dunja Mijatovic, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, said in a memorandum on Tuesday that it was "high... 2021.03.30.
DW Confutes Alleged Apology for Controversial Report on Buda Castle Renovation Historian Krisztián Ungváry, Mayor of First District, Márta Naszályi V., and Pál Tutsek, editor of Deutsche Welle, rejected press reports... 2021.03.22.
DW Apologizes for ‘One-Sided’ Buda Castle Report Deutsche Welle (DW), a German public television service, made a report in Hungary linking the reconstruction of the Buda Castle... 2021.03.17.
October 23: Only Two State Events and Two Demonstrations to be Held Amid Coronavirus Scare In light of the coronavirus pandemic, only two official state events will be held this year to commemorate Hungary’s 1956... 2020.10.22.
New Public Media Body to Check Balance, Legal Conformity of Content during EP Campaign Hungary's public media is setting up a Public Media Election Office on Monday to ensure that public media content meets... 2019.03.05.
Opposition Protests for Free and Independent Public Media Opposition politicians attended a demonstration in front of the public media headquarters in Budapest on Monday, calling for a "free... 2018.12.18.