Audience shares of Hungarian TV channels, 2012
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.[1]
However, analogue broadcasting is still active as of August 2021 in the Balaton area, at least.
Free-to-air on satellite
Hungarian channels by groups
- 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 / M2 Petőfi: 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. closed in 2019, available only on internet as m3.hu Available in HD.
- M4 Sport: 0-24: Sport channel started in 2015. Available in HD.
- M4 Sport+ Sports channel, weekends on Duna World from 14h to 22h.
- M5: 0-24: Started on August 6, 2016 as sport channel, (also called M5 Sport) because of the Rio Olympics 2016 and Rio Paralympics 2016, as cultural channel since September 18, 2016. (It was planned as a regional channel.) 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.
RTL Magyarország (RTL Group)
- RTL: The most popular commercial channel in Hungary.
- Cool, Film+, RTL Kettő, RTL Három, Sorozat+, RTL Gold: premium series' and films' channels
- Muzsika TV: Hungarian music
Channels in bold are available in HD.
TV2 Group
- TV2: One of main commercial channel in Hungary.
- TV2 Séf, FEM3, Jocky TV, Moziverzum, TV2 Comedy, Izaura TV, TV2 Kids, PRIME, Mozi+, Super TV2, Spiler1 TV, Spiler2 TV: premium series', films' and sport channels
- Zenebutik: Hungarian music
Channels in bold are available in HD.
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Rating shares
By channel
The channels with the largest viewing share in 2016 are:[2]
By television group
Historical rankings
Channel
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Launched
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2018[3]
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2017[4]
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2016
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2015[5]
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2014[6]
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2013[7]
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2012[8]
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2011[9]
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RTL Klub
|
10/1997
|
10.03
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11.03
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12.18
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13.42
|
13.90
|
15.9
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17.9
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20.3
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TV2
|
10/1997
|
10.22
|
10.72
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10.77
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12.50
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14.05
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13.6
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15.8
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18.6
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Duna
|
12/1992
|
3.98
|
5.48
|
6.13
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5.54
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3.23
|
2.3
|
1.9
|
1.8
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Cool
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9/2004
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2.98
|
3.33
|
3.84
|
4.43
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4.10
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4.2
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4.4
|
3.6
|
M1
|
5/1957
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2.93
|
3.39
|
3.32
|
4.04
|
7.65
|
8.4
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9.2
|
7.9
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Film+
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9/2003
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3.18
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3.31
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3.08
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4.12
|
3.85
|
3.9
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3.5
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3.5
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Viasat 3
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10/2000
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1.82
|
1.87
|
2.53
|
2.96
|
2.65
|
2.8
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3.8
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3.6
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