HírTV

Hír TV
Current used logo since 2015
Owned by	Nemzet Lap- és Könyvkiadó Kft.
Country	Hungary
Language	hungarian
Broadcast area	National, also distributed in
Headquarters	Szentendrei út 89–93., 1033, Budapest, Hungary

Hír TV is a Hungarian television news channel, the first of such made in the country. It began broadcasting on 2 January 2003.

On 26 November 2002 the TV channel was registered by 20 million Hungarian forints (~64.350 euros) of capital. The first CEO of television became Gábor Borókai, who was the spokesman of Viktor Orbán's First Government from 1998 to 2002 and the first editor-in-chief became Imre Dlusztus the sometime editor-in-chief of local newspaper from Szeged, Délmagyarország (Southern Hungary).

The first test broadcast started at 2 December 2002 and after one month of test broadcast at 2 January 2003 according to contract with several cable television companies, the TV channel started its regular broadcasting.

This TV channel was the only one to broadcast the 2006 protests in Hungary live and the channel's report were broadcast in every Hungarian television channel and CNN as well as via Reuters the BBC, Euronews and Sky News together. Hír TV during the protests reported always. Meanwhile, the Magyar Televízió as a public broadcaster has not broadcast the fight between the policemen and protesters at the entrance of its headquarter at Szabadság tér. They broadcast the primetime investigation programm "Az Este" with anchorman György Baló, when he announced at the end of program that "the television is obsessing by protesters".

The obsessing of public broadcaster's headquarter has seen by 1 million viewers in Hungary.

After the obsessing in Magyar Televízió Headquarter, the National Television and Radio Board (ORTT) in its report has settled that the channel violated the "law of objective and factual information providing" and the law of "respect the Hungarian Republic's constitutional order". Due to fore-mentioned law violate the Hír Tv was fined by 1 million hungarian forint.