M1 (Hungarian TV channel)

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M1 (em egy [ˈɛm ɛɟː]) is a Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Hungarian Radio and Television. 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. M1 became a 24-hour news network from 2015 with its entertainment programming transferred to Duna until 2026 when the network was reverted back into its pre-2015 generalist form following massive restructuring. During its time as a news channel M1 had condensed versions of its news in English, German, Russian and Chinese which were broadcast on the network once a day. 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...

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