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Country | Hungary |
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Headquarters | Budapest, Hungary |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Hungarian (rest of the programmes) English, German, Russian, Chinese (news only) |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Duna Média (MTVA) |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | 1 May 1957 15 March 2015 (as a news channel) | (Official)
Former names | MTV (1957–1971) MTV1 (1971–2000) mtv (2002–2005) m1 (2000–2002, 2005–2012) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
MinDigTV | LCN 1 |
M1 (em egy) is a Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Duna Média. It is also transmitted in high definition. The channel originally launched on 1 May 1957, as a generalist channel, and was the flagship channel of Magyar Televízió.
On 15 March 2015, M1 was relaunched as a 24-hour news channel, with all variety and entertainment programming being transferred to the channel 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 media have been deformed into state media."[1]