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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, and from July 2015 the company's main task has been to finance and operate Duna Média, Hungary's state public company. It is an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). A 2019 report by the European Federation of Journalists stated that news coverage of the Hungarian public broadcaster is not balanced, opposition politicians' viewpoints are nearly absent from the reports, and there is a lack of transparency over the funding and work of MTVA. The report concluded that the "public service media have been deformed into state media." Moreover, MTVA withdrew its participation from the EBU's Eurovision Song Contest amid a rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment among the leadership of Hungary and MTVA; while no official reason for the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State-owned Corporation
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity created or owned by a national or local government, either through an executive order or legislation. SOEs aim to generate profit for the government, prevent private sector monopolies, provide goods at lower prices, implement government policies, or serve remote areas where private businesses are scarce. The government typically holds full or majority ownership and oversees operations. SOEs have a distinct legal structure, with financial and developmental goals, like making services more accessible while earning profit (such as a state railway). They can be considered as government-affiliated entities designed to meet commercial and state capitalist objectives. Terminology The terminology around the term state-owned enterprise is murky. All three words in the term are challenged and subject to interpretation. First, it is debatable what the term "state" implies (e.g., it is unclear whether municipally owned corporations and ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kossuth Rádió
Kossuth Rádió (, formerly known as ''MR1-Kossuth Rádió'', ''Rádió Budapest'' and ''Budapest I.'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Hungary, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the seven national radio channels produced by MTVA. It was established in 1925 as Rádió Budapest and named after Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian national hero, in 1949. The main Hungarian-language radio station can be heard all over Europe and the Middle East, as it broadcasts with 2 MW of transmission power on 540 kHz AM from transmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world) and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries. It is the second most popular radio station in Hungary (as 2013) with 1.38 million listeners (14% of the total population) daily. History It was established in 1925 as ''Radio Budapest'' and broadcast from Csepel (then suburb of Budapest, now part of the city) with a 2 kW Telefunken-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M3 (Hungarian TV Channel)
M3 (M Három) is a Hungary, Hungarian pay television channel owned and operated by Duna Média since 2015. The channel launched as M3D, Hungary's first 3D television channel that operated between 25 June and 13 August 2012, the end of the 2012 Summer Olympics. It relaunched on 20 December 2013 at 18:00 CET as TV3 centred towards archival programming. As a Television channel, TV channel, it closed down on 30 April 2019 at midnight CET, and launched as an online service the following day at 08:00 CET. Over the daytime it broadcast archive programming and during the night it broadcast Magyar Távirati Iroda, MTI reports. The channel also simulcast ''Híradó'' (06:00, 11:00 & 17:00 editions) on M1 (TV channel), M1. References External links * Television networks in Hungary Defunct television channels in Hungary Television channels and stations established in 2012 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019 2012 establishments in Hungary 2019 disestablishme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M5 (TV Channel)
M5 is a Hungarian cultural television channel owned by Duna Media. It was a sports channel in its early weeks on air, as an overflow service for M4 Sport. Advertising is sold by Atmedia. History and technical data In February 2015, MTVA announced the creation of two new channels (M5 and M6). M5 was set to be a channel for Budapest while M6 had its theme undefined, though it was suggested that it would become a cultural channel, taking over the project from DunaArt. M5 would use a DTT frequency that would also include M4K, a UHD channel. Népszabadság reported on 13 November that an educational channel would be created instead of a regional channel. On 5 April 2016, 24.hu announced that MTVA opted to broadcast the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M4 Sport
M4 Sport is a Hungarian terrestrial television channel owned and operated by Duna Média since 2015. On this channel, events of the 16 prominent Hungarian sports are carried, as well as international sports events, events featuring outstanding Hungarian athletes, and the broadcast of their competitions and championships. All of this includes self-produced shows. M4 Sport provides approximately 10 hours of "live" sports broadcasting per day. On July 18, 2020, on the channel's fifth birthday, it was announced that a new channel called M4 Sport+'' would be launched from September 12. For the time being, the new channel can only be viewed for a limited time, on weekends between 14:00 and 22:00 in the time slot shared with Duna World, not only in Europe, but also in those parts of the world where Duna World's programs are broadcast to Hungarians abroad. The terrestrial coverage of the channel is 99,6% of Hungary's territory. In 2022, the channel had an audience share of 2,7%. The chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M2 (TV Channel)
M2 (em kettő) is a Hungary, Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Duna Média since 2015. It is also transmitted in High-definition television, high definition. On 22 December 2012, M2's daytime hours became dedicated to children's programming. Since 15 March 2015, the night-time programming is called M2 Petőfi. Similar to TVP ABC in Poland, CBeebies, CBBC (TV channel), CBBC and BBC Three in the UK or ČT Déčko, ČT :D in the Czech republic, M2 broadcasts children's programming during the day while M2 Petőfi targets youth audiences as they broadcast at night with music videos (local and abroad), music-related (music concerts) and youth-related programming, as well as exclusive content from its radio counterpart, Petőfi Rádió. History M2 launched its children block on 22 December 2012 at 05:00 CET. On 3 November 2021, M2 Petőfi, the prime-time adult block, will be rebranded for the first time since 2015. The rebranding will reflect as well as M2, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1 (TV Channel)
M1 (em egy) is a Hungary, Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Duna Média. It is also transmitted in High-definition television, high definition. The channel originally launched on 1 May 1957, as a Generalist channel, generalist channel, and was the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship channel of Magyar Televízió. On 15 March 2015, M1 was relaunched as a 24-hour News broadcasting, news channel, with all variety and entertainment programming being transferred to the channel Duna Televízió, Duna. While the channel's primary launguage is Hungarian, M1 also broadcasts once a day condensed versions of its news in English, German, Russian and Chinese. A 2019 report by the European Federation of Journalists stated that news coverage of Hungarian public broadcaster is not balanced, opposition politicians' viewpoints are nearly absent from the reports, and there is a lack of transparency over the funding and work of MTVA. The report concluded that the "public service med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duna World
Duna World is the international television service of Duna Média, the Hungarian public broadcaster. It airs a mix of programming from Duna TV's domestic channels, together with special programmes aimed at the Hungarian diaspora in Europe, Africa, North America (especially in states near the Canada–United States border), Australia, Eurasia (Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan) and now in Asia Pacific. Hr:Duna World Programming It airs news and current affairs programming, as well as shows about Hungarian culture including drama, music, movies and more. Since September 12, 2020, its channel space became shared with M4 Sport+, a part-time service produced by sister station M4 Sport, which airs exclusively on weekends between 14:00 and 22:00. The service features broadcasts of Hungarian sports events, specially, from the Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 European Floods
Extreme flooding in Central Europe began after several days of heavy rain in late May and early June 2013. Flooding and damages primarily affected south and east German states (Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg), western regions of the Czech Republic (Bohemia), and Austria. In addition, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary were affected to a lesser extent. The flood crest progressed down the Elbe and Danube drainage basins and tributaries, leading to high water and flooding along their banks. Meteorological history The spring weather preceding the flooding had been wet in the region, and May 2013 had been one of the three wettest in the last 156 years in Austria, together with the years 1962 and 1965. Austria saw twice as much rainfall as average during the month, resulting in the ground in the region becoming saturated. Soils in Germany were showing record levels of moisture prior to the rains. The already saturated soils led to greater runof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szeged
Szeged ( , ; see also #Etymology, other alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád County, Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary. The Szeged Open Air (Theatre) Festival (first held in 1931) is one of the main attractions, held every summer and celebrated as the Day of the City on 21 May. Etymology It is possible that the name ''Szeged'' is a mutation (linguistics), mutated and truncated form of the final syllables of ''Partiscum (castra), Partiscum'', the name of a Roman colony founded in the 2nd century, on or near the site of modern Szeged. In Latin language contexts, has long been assumed to be synonymous with ''Szeged''. The Latin name is also the basis of the city's Ancient Greek, Greek name ''Partiskon''. However, ''Sz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pécs
Pécs ( , ; ; Slovak language, Slovak: ''Päťkostolie''; also known by #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the country's southwest, close to the border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economic centre of Baranya County, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pécs. A city dating back to ancient times, settled by the Celts and the Romans, it was made an episcopal see in early medieval Hungary. It has University of Pécs, the oldest university in the country, and is one of its major cultural centers. Pécs has a rich cultural and architectural heritage stemming from 150 years of Ottoman rule, and it contains the largest number of Turkish Ottoman buildings found in any city in Central Europe. It is historically a multi-ethnic city where many cultures have interacted through 2,000 years of history. In recent times, it has been recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miskolc
Miskolc ( , ; ; Czech language, Czech and ; ; ; ) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 as of 1 January 2014, Miskolc is the List of cities and towns in Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, fourth largest city in Hungary (behind Budapest, Debrecen, and Szeged). It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the Regions of Hungary, regional centre of Northern Hungary. Etymology The name derives from ''Miško'', Slavic languages, Slavic form of Michael (given name), Michael. ''Miškovec'' → ''Miskolc'' with the same development as ''Lipovec'' → ''Lipólc'', ''Lipóc''. The name is associated with the Miskolc (genus), Miskolc clan (also Miskóc or Myscouch, Slovak language, Slovak Miškovec, plural Miškovci) named after the settlement or vice versa. Earliest mentions are ''que nunc vocatur Miscoucy'' (around 1200), ''de Myschouch'' (1225), ''Ponyt de genere Myscouch'' (1230), ''in Miscovcy'' (1245). Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
