Television in Hungary
Television in Hungary was introduced in 1957. Transmission in colour was introduced to Hungarian television for the first time in 1971. Hungary had only one television channel until 1973. It was only in the mid 1990s when private and commercial broadcasting was introduced to Hungary.
Free-to-air television channels broadcasting in Hungary
Free-to-air on DVB-T
Free-to-air on analogue
Analogue broadcasting in Hungary was phased out in two phases that were completed on July 31 and October 31, 2013, respectively.- M1
- TV2
- RTL Klub
- plus Local channels
Free-to-air on satellite
- M1
- M2
- Duna
- Duna World
- Galaxy4
Hungarian Channels by Groups
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- DUNA: 0-24: National main channel of Hungary, since March 15, 2015. Started in 1992. Available in HD.
- M1: 0-24: News channel, since March 15, 2015. It was the national main channel before, started in 1957. Available in HD.
- M2 / Petőfi TV: 6-20: Kids channel since December 22, 2012, 20-6: Entertainment since March 15, 2015. Started in 1973. Available in HD.
- M3: 0-24: Retro channel started in late 2013. Cancelled in 2019, available only on internet as m3.hu
- M4 Sport: 0-24: Sport channel started in 2015. Available in HD.
- M5: 0-24: Started on August 18, 2016 as sport channel, because of the Rio Olympics 2016 and Rio Paralympics 2016, as cultural channel since September 18, 2016. Available in HD.
- Duna World: International channel of Hungary, since April 16, 2006. Available in HD.
- M6: Planned as a regional channel. MTVA doesn't plan to launch it in the following years.
- M3D: In the summer of 2012 it was the 3D channel of MTVA.
- M4K: Planned as a 4K channel.
[M-RTL:]
- RTL Klub: The most popular commercial channel in Hungary.
- Cool, Film+, RTL II, RTL+, Sorozat+, RTL Spike: premium series' and films' channels
- RTL Gold: Brand new game show + more channel that went on air July 3.
- Muzsika TV: Hungarian music
TV2 Group
- TV2: One of main commercial channel in Hungary.
- LiChi TV, FEM3, Jocky TV, Moziverzum, Humor+, Izaura TV, KiWi TV, PRIME, Mozi+, Super TV2, Spiler1 TV, Spiler2 TV : premium series', films' and sport channels
- Zenebutik: Hungarian music
National Channels
- Duna started broadcasting in 1992.
- Duna World
- M1 started broadcasting in 1957.
- M2, started broadcasting in 1972., , since 22. December 2012.
- M3, started broadcasting in 2012, closed
- M4 Sport started broadcasting in 2015.
- M5 -
National commercial channels
- TV2 started broadcasting in October 1997.
- RTL Klub started broadcasting in October 1997.
National commercial premium channels
- RTL II
- Super TV2
Cable channels
General and entertainment
News and politics
Sport
Movies
Series and telenovellas
Documentary
Animals
Travel and lifestyle
Culinary
Children & families
Music
Religion
Regional
Adult
HD TV-Channels
Planned
- Arena4
Defunct or renamed
- Viasat Nature/History HD
- Megamax
- ID Xtra
- C8
- FOX
- Sport M
- Chili TV renamed as Lichi TV
- Story 4 renamed as TV4
- Story 5 renamed as Story4
- Galaxy renamed as Galaxy4
- Echo TV
- DoQ
- Romance TV only in Hungary
- VIVA Hungary replaced by Comedy Central Family Hungary
- Comedy Central Extra
- M3 Anno only as m3.hu
- Digi Film renamed as FilmNOW
- Disney Junior
- Ozone Network renamed as OzoneTV
- Life Network renamed as LifeTV
- Film+2 renamed as RTL Gold
- AXN White replaced by Sony Max
- AXN Black replaced by Sony Movie Channel
- Universal Channel
- PRO4 renamed as Mozi+
- Cartoon Network Too
- Animax
- Discovery World renamed as DTX
- BBC Knowledge renamed as BBC Earth
- TV3
- Prizma TV renamed as RTL+
- Reflektor TV
- AXN Sci-Fi renamed as AXN Black
- AXN Crime renamed as AXN White
- Hallmark channel renamed as Universal Channel
- Kids co.
- Zone Club
- Írisz TV
- MTVA Info
- M3D
- A+
- Avante
- Best Of Music
- Budapest Európa Televízió
- Cherry Music
- Szív TV
- MSat
- Club TV
- Discovery Civilisation renamed as Discovery World
- Discovery Travel and Living
- Fény TV
- FilmBox Extra
- FilmBox Extra1
- FilmNet
- Fox Kids renamed as Jetix
- Galaxia TV
- Game One TV
- Hálózat TV
- HungaroSport
- Humor 1 renamed as Cool TV
- Jetix renamed as Disney Channel
- Joker TV
- Karma TV
- Meteo TV
- m+ Hungary
- MGM
- MusicPlus Hungary
- MTV Hungary
- Movies 24
- Nóta TV renamed as Sláger TV
- PV TV
- Rock TV
- Top TV HU
- Top Shop TV
- SATeLIT Televízió
- Sport Klub+
- SuperOne Music
- Ötös csatrona
- MusicMix
- MusicMix SuperOne
- TCM
- Cartoonito
- Agro TV Hungary
- M3
- Antenna3 Hungary
- Nautik Hungary
- TV deko renamed as Spektrum Home
- Filmmúzeum renamed as Film Mania
- Musicmax
- Musicmax Adult
- Private Spice
- Zone Club
- Zone Reality renamed as CBS Reality
- Zone Europa
- Zone Romantica renamed as Film Cafe
- ZENIT TV HUNGARY
- SportKlub
- P+ Televízió
- BBC Entertainment
- TV2 Classic
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