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channel owned and operated by Echo Hungária TV Zrt, and founded in 2005 to cover business news.Nemzeti erők egyesítése: Új tulajdonosa van az Echo Televíziónak - Tamás Pindroch
- Magyar Hírlap
Later focusing on
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and public affairs, it was known as a supporter of
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and KDNP.


History

Echo TV was founded as a business news channel in 2005 at the initiative of Gábor Széles, the 4th richest man of Hungary (as of 2017) and the head of Videoton and Ikarus Bus. Széles had only days previously purchased Hungary's daily '' Magyar Hírlap''; the acquisition of both stations helped Széles establish a major media presence in Hungary. Széles reportedly spent two billion
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s in creating Echo TV. In 2006 Echo TV became a media partner of Feratel media technologies AG, based in
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. Gábor Széles sold Echo TV to Fidesz-backed businessman and oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros on December 2, 2016. On December 4, 2017, the whole channel was renewed. Echo TV ceased operations on March 31, 2019. Its staff and technical equipment were integrated into Hír TV, which had returned as a pro-government media portfolio after the 2018 parliamentary election.


Association with far-right politics

According to ''
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'', Echo TV was a forum favored among neofascists in Hungary. After the 2010 election in Hungary, Echo TV displayed an image of
Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...
, a Hungarian survivor of
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and nobel laureate, alongside a voiceover about rats. Sándor Pörzse was a well-known host for Echo TV before helping to found
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's paramilitary organization the " Hungarian Guard," later banned by the Hungarian Government. Sándor Pörzse was removed from the Echo TV in 2009. One of Echo TV's better known broadcasters was Ferenc Szaniszló, known for his
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and
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statements. In 2011, Hungary's media regulator fined Echo 500,000 Forints after Szaniszló compared Roma people to "monkeys".


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