Prominent Personalities Leave Hungary's HírTV

  • 11 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
Prominent Personalities Leave Hungary's HírTV
Popular television presenter Andrea Kovács has handed in her notice to her employers at HírTV, news site Pestisracok reports. She told the website that she cannot follow the U-turn against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made by the channel’s owner Lajos Simicska on Friday.

Fellow presenter Anett Szabó is also leaving HírTV, according to Index.

Earlier reports have suggested that staff of Simicska-owned Magyar Nemzet. Lánchíd Rádió and HírTV will find work at the state-run all-news channel due to begin broadcasts on March 15.

Sources close to the government told Népszabadság that the cabinet has not yet decided whether to boycott Simicska’s media outlets.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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