TV2 (Hungarian TV channel)
Hungarian TV channel
TV2 (TV Kettő) is a Hungarian free-to-air television channel operating since 4 October 1997, providing a large variety of programming. It is a competitor with RTL for the first place in Hungarian television ratings. Among its most popular self-produced shows were Megasztár ("Mega Star", an adaptation of American Idol or Pop Idol), and the daily prime time soap Jóban Rosszban, and US shows like Desperate Housewives, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Numbers, Heroes, Smallville, House M.D., Ghost Whisperer and Lipstick Jungle. TV2 is aired throughout Hungary. TV2 is also aired in Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine and Austria.
TV2 was one of the channels that was carried on the national analogue terrestrial service, along with M1, RTL Klub and the local channels, but those transmitters were shut down on 2 zones, on 31 July and 31 October 2013 respectively.
The current CEO is Miklós Vaszily.
History
TV2 started broadcasting on October 4, 1997, three days before the start of the competitor RTL, so this channel was Hungary's first national commercial channel. It was the result of the bidding of two private licenses for a terrestrial network that only carried three channels, displacing MTV2 to cable and satellite. The company, however, had been created in 1992 and started using the TV2 name in public in 1996.
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