Hungary's M1 Newscast Losing Viewers
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
The number of viewers of the nightly news programme “Híradó” aired on M1 at 7.30 p.m. has dropped from 332,000 when M1 became an all-news channel on March 15 to 151,000 among adults, Népszabadság reports. Ratings for the state-run TV news had been gradually dropping in recent years, but even in February and early March over 300,000 people watched the nightly news.
“Híradó” was seen by 332,000 people on average during the week of March 15, but has lost more than half of its viewers in less than two months.
The lost 180,000 viewers do not appear on Duna TV, whose “Duna Híradó” newscast attracted an average 124,000 viewers in the second week of May.
Newscasts of the two leading commercial stations, RTL and TV2, attract 600,000-700,000 viewers.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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