M1 (TV channel)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hungarian. (March 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Hungarian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Hungarian Wikipedia article at [[:hu:M1 (televízióadó)]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|hu|M1 (televízióadó)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

M1

Country	Hungary
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	M2 M2 Petőfi M3 M4 Sport M4 Sport + M5 Duna Duna World
History
Launched	1 May 1957; 67 years ago (1957-05-01) (Official) 15 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-15) (as a news channel)
Former names	MTV (1957–1971) MTV1 (1971–2000) mtv (2002–2005) m1 (2000–2002, 2005–2012)
Links
Website	www.mediaklikk.hu/m1
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]