Two additional public televisions may start this year

According to origo.hu, one of them may start in the summer, the other one in the autumn.

MTVA plans to launch a cultural and a scientific-educational channel, but these will not start in the first half of 2016. Previously, they would have been launched in the summer and in December 2015.

It looks like that M5 will be a nationally available channel and M6 a Budapest channel. According to DTV News, the two new channels will start this year: M5 can be launched on August 1, while M6 can start in late November. Together with these, there will be 8 state televisions in Hungary, origo.hu reported.

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Source: http://www.origo.hu/teve/20160216-meg-ket-allami-tevecsatorna-indul-iden.html