Television in Hungary was introduced in 1957. Transmission in color 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.
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
M1
M2
Duna
Duna World
Duna TV: 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 1972. Available in HD.
M3: 0-24: Retro channel started in late 2013.
M4 Sport: 0-24: Sport channel started in 2015. Available in HD.
M5: 0-24: Started on August 18, 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 music channel. It can start in 2016-2017.
M3D: Planned as a 3D channel.
M4K: Planned as a 4K channel.
RTL Klub: The most popular commercial channel in Hungary.
Cool, Film+, Film+2, RTL II, RTL+, Sorozat+, RTL Spike: premium series' and films' channels (RTL Spike is owned by Viacom based on an RTL license)
Muzsika TV: Hungarian music
Channels in bold are available in HD.
TV2: One of main commercial channel in Hungary.
Chili TV, FEM3, Humor+, Izaura TV, KiWi TV, PRIME, Mozi+, Super TV2, Spíler TV : premium series', films' and sport channels
Zenebutik: Hungarian music
Channels in bold are available in HD.
Duna (National channel) started broadcasting in 1992. (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
Duna World (International channel, since 16. April 2006.) (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
M1 (News channel, since 15. March 2015.) started broadcasting in 1957. (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
M2, started broadcasting in 1972., (M2 Kids Channel 6-20h), since 22. December 2012. (M2 Petőfi 20-6h) (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
M4 Sport (Sports channel) started broadcasting in 2015. (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
M5 - (as sports channel from 5. August to 18. September 2016.(due to the Rio Olympics 2016 and Rio Paralympics 2016), from 18. September as a Cultural channel) (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
TV2 started broadcasting in October 1997. (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
RTL Klub started broadcasting in October 1997. (Free-to-air on DVB-T)
RTL II (Also available on DVB-T)
Super TV2 (Also available on DVB-T)
M6 (starts in 2016)
Heti TV starts on 1. December 2016.
Universal Channel
PRO4 renamed as Mozi+
Cartoon Network Too
Animax
Discovery World
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
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
The channels with the largest viewing share in 2016 are:
