Audience shares of Hungarian TV channels, 2012
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.

Hungarian programming

Utca 13

Universal Channel 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 Média (MTVA)

RTL Magyarország (RTL Group)

Channels in bold are available in HD.

TV2 Group

Channels in bold are available in HD.

National Channels

National commercial channels

National commercial premium channels

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

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Defunct or renamed

Rating shares

By channel

The channels with the largest viewing share in 2016 are:[2]

Rank Logo Channel Group Share of total viewing (%)
4+ 18-59
1
RTL Klub.svg
 RTL Klub RTL Group 12.18 17.87
2
TV2 2008.svg
 TV2 TV2 Group 10.77 10.74
3 Duna MTVA 6.13 3.05
4
Cool TV 2014.png
 Cool RTL Group 3.84 5.18
5
M1 logo 2012.png
 M1 MTVA 3.32 1.73
6
M4 Sport+ logo.png
 M4 Sport MTVA 3.21 3.96
7
FILM+ logo 2014 Hungary.png
 Film+ RTL Group 3.08 5.41
8
Atv logo 2018.png
 ATV ATV Group 2.71 1.34
9
Super TV2 logo.png
 Super TV2 TV2 Group 2.56 2.89
10
TV3 logo.png
 Viasat 3 Sony Pictures Television 2.53 2.88
11
Logo of RTL II (Hungary).png
 RTL II RTL Group 2.12 2.39
12
M2 logo 2012.png
 M2 / Petőfi TV MTVA 1.81 1.04
13
Story4 logo.svg
 Story4 Central 1.78 1.38
14
AXN logo (2015).svg
 AXN Sony Pictures Television 1.72 1.89
15
Comedy Central 2011 Logo.svg
 Comedy Central Viacom 1.71 2.05
16
M3D logo 2012.png
 M3 MTVA 1.70 1.56
17
Duna World HD 2012.svg
 Duna World MTVA 1.40 0.93
18
Mozi+ logo.png
 Mozi+ TV2 Group 1.36 2.02
19
Nickelodeon 2009 logo.svg
 Nickelodeon Viacom 1.30 0.58
20
Story 5 logo.png
 Story5 Central 1.08 0.93

By television group

Rank Group Share of total viewing (%)
4+ 18-59
1 RTL Group 24.48 33.03
2 Duna Média (MTVA) 17.23 12.48
3 TV2 Group 16.79 17.21
4 Sony Pictures Television 4.97 5.61
5 Viacom 4.34 3.46
Others 32.19 28.21

Historical rankings

Channel Launched 2018[3]
 2017[4]
 2016
 2015[5]
 2014[6]
 2013[7]
 2012[8]
 2011[9]
RTL Klub 10/1997 10.03 11.03 12.18 13.42 13.90 15.9 17.9 20.3
TV2 10/1997 10.22 10.72 10.77 12.50 14.05 13.6 15.8 18.6
Duna 12/1992 3.98 5.48 6.13 5.54 3.23 2.3 1.9 1.8
Cool 9/2004 2.98 3.33 3.84 4.43 4.10 4.2 4.4 3.6
M1 5/1957 2.93 3.39 3.32 4.04 7.65 8.4 9.2 7.9
Film+ 9/2003 3.18 3.31 3.08 4.12 3.85 3.9 3.5 3.5
Viasat 3 10/2000 1.82 1.87 2.53 2.96 2.65 2.8 3.8 3.6

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hogyan készüljünk a digitális átállásra?".
  2. ^ "2016-os csatornanézettség: a 65 legnézettebb tévécsatorna". thetvhu.blogspot.hu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  3. ^ "2018-as nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  4. ^ "2017-es nézettség: a 71 legnézettebb magyar tévécsatorna". hu.crt-tv.com.
  5. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2015: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu.
  6. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2014: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2013: A 49 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 22 January 2014.
  8. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2012: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai tévéadó". sorozatwiki.hu. 28 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Csatornanézettség - 2011: Az 50 legnézettebb hazai TV adó". sorozatwiki.hu. 11 March 2012.
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