Duna Media Service Provider (), also known as Duna Média, is Hungary's only

public service broadcaster Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) is radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service with a commitment to avoiding political and commercial influence. Public broadcasters receive ...

for radio, television and new media. The company was established in July 2015, and operates six TV channels, seven radio stations, a news agency and online services. Duna Média was created through the merger of Magyar Rádió, Magyar Televízió and Duna Televízió by the

Third Orbán Government The third government of Viktor Orbán was the Government of Hungary between 6 June 2014 and 18 May 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán formed his third cabinet after his party-alliance, Fidesz and its coalition partner, Christian Democratic People' ...

. The reasons given were the elimination of duplicate structures in the public media and coordination by a central administration under the government.

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Duna Media is the result of a merger between the former public service broadcasters

Magyar Televízió Magyar Televízió (, ''Hungarian Television'') or MTV is a nationwide public television broadcasting organization in Hungary. Headquartered in Budapest, it is the oldest television broadcaster in Hungary and today airs five channels: M1 HD, ...

(MTV),

Magyar Rádió Magyar Rádió (, MR, ''The Hungarian Radio Corporation'', also known as ''Radio Budapest'') was Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation until 2015. It was also the country's official international broadcasting station. Since ...

(MR) and

Duna TV Duna TV, full name ''Duna Televízió'' ()— is one of Hungary's public television channels. "Duna" is the Hungarian name for the Danube. Duna has been the ''national main channel'' of the public media MTVA since 15 March 2015. Duna TV is ma ...

, as well as the Hungarian

news agency A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and All-news radio, radio and News broadcasting, television Broadcasting, broadcasters. A news agency ma ...

Magyar Távirati Iroda MTI (''Magyar Távirati Iroda'', literally "Hungarian Telegraphic Office") is a Hungarian news agency. One of the oldest news agencies in the world, it was founded in 1880. MTI was owned by MTI Rt., founded by the Parliament. The members of th ...

(MTI). This

nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

is the legal successor to each of the four formerly separate entities managed by

Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA) (') is a Hungarian fund company owned and financed by the Hungarian state, through the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (, NMHH). MTVA was established on 1 January 2011 ...

(MTVA). Duna Media is a member of the

European Broadcasting Union The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the ...

(EBU) and is funded by MTVA. As of 1 January 2023, the organisational structure has changed significantly. Instead of the previous four directorates, only two will be responsible for content. The former Directorates have been reorganised under the new Content Directorate, the other new Directorate is the Content Development Directorate, which will have a small creative team, and the Strategy Office, which until now was the "creative manager". Both directorates are headed by external managers, the former being Zoltán István Tóth, former member of the Television Jury of the National Film Institute and 777blog.hu, a blog committed to Christian values (he used to head the Country Image Centre and worked at Hír TV and MTVA); the latter is Róbert Kárász, who has been a presenter at ATV since 2017 (he used to work at TV2 and RTL).Országimázs Központtól a Közmédiáig – bemutatjuk Kárász Róbert leendő közmédiás igazgatótársát
(Média1, 2022. december 13.)

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