[3] This organization is the legal successor to Magyar Televízió and is an active member of the European Broadcasting Union.

Test transmissions commenced in 1954, however these were generally with stills or short clips of motion pictures, merely for experimental purposes.

MTV suggested the establishment of an international organisation for exchanging television material, which was to be named Intervision.

Another study revealed that by 1965, 46% of the inhabitants of rural areas named television as their choice of entertainment, instead of reading (25%) or radio (10%).

Mazsola és Tádé, a Hungarian puppet animated children TV series was produced between 1969 and 1973.

RTV, a programme guide similar to BBC's Radio Times was bought by 1.4 million viewers weekly.

MTV was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union on January 1, 1993, upon the merger of OIRT and EBU.

The programming available on MTV2 was aimed at audiences which were most unlikely to receive the channel, so this meant a severe handicap for the company.

[citation needed] During the 1990s the MTV gradually lost its independence and became the voice of the all-time government, often accused of biased on commenting news .

MTV is continuously underfinanced,[citation needed] just like many other public service channels around the globe, and is therefore struggling to produce programmes.

[8] The 2006 protests didn't leave the headquarters unscathed; in fact, it was occupied by the rioters for a short time.

In 2011, most of the assets and employees of MTV were transferred to the newly created Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (Hungarian: Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap, abbreviated MTVA), a government organization controlled by the Media Council of Hungary.

[1] Magyar Rádió and Duna Televízió were also made a part of the MTVA, which, together with MTV, unified all three public service broadcasters in Hungary for the first time.

[9][11][12][13] The government has stated that restructuring was necessary to improve the finances of the public media system and that all of the organizations within the MTVA retain editorial independence.

The old headquarters can be reached by a five minutes walk from Kossuth tér where Metro line 2 stops.