Duna Média

Duna Médiaszolgáltató
Type	Public broadcasting
Country	Hungary
Availability	National; International
Headquarters	Óbuda-Békásmegyer, Budapest
Owner	Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (Government of Hungary)
Key people	Anita Altorjai, CEO
Launch date	1 July 2015; 9 years ago
Official website	dunamsz.hu
Replaced	MTV; MR; Duna TV; MTI;

Duna Media Service Provider (Hungarian: Duna Médiaszolgáltató), also known as simply Duna Média, is Hungary's public service broadcaster for radio, television and new media. The company was established in July 2015, and operates six TV channels, seven radio stations, a news agency and online services.

History

Merger of the three major Hungarian broadcasting companies.

Duna Media is the result of a merger between the former public service broadcasters Magyar Televízió (MTV), Magyar Rádió (MR) and Duna TV, as well as the Hungarian news agency Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI). This nonprofit organization is the legal successor to each of the four formerly separate entities managed by Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA).

Duna Media is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and is funded by MTVA.^[1]^[2]^[3]

As of 1 January 2023, the organisational structure has changed significantly. Instead of the previous four directorates, only two will be responsible for content. The former Directorates have been reorganised under the new Content Directorate, the other new Directorate is the Content Development Directorate, which will have a small creative team, and the Strategy Office, which until now was the "creative manager". Both directorates are headed by external managers, the former being Zoltán István Tóth, former member of the Television Jury of the National Film Institute and 777blog.hu, a blog committed to Christian values (he used to head the Country Image Centre and worked at Hír TV and MTVA); the latter is Róbert Kárász, who has been a presenter at ATV since 2017 (he used to work at TV2 and RTL).^[4]

Services

References

^ "Hungarian public service media companies merge - MTVA". Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
^ Polyák, Gábor (2015). "Hungary : New Amendment to the Media Act". IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory (2). Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
^ "EBU - Active Members". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
^ Országimázs Központtól a Közmédiáig – bemutatjuk Kárász Róbert leendő közmédiás igazgatótársát Archived 2023-01-26 at the Wayback Machine (Média1, 2022. december 13.)