Echo TV was a Christian-conservative^[1] Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Echo Hungária TV Zrt,^[1] and founded in 2005 to cover business news.^[2] Later focusing on news broadcasting and public affairs, it was known as a supporter of Fidesz and KDNP.^[3]

TVN founded as Echo TVN as a business news channel in 2005^[4] at the initiative of Gábor Széles, the 4th richest man of Hungary (as of 2017) and the head of Videoton and Ikarus Bus.^[2] 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.^[5] Széles reportedly spent two billion Hungarian forints in creating Echo TV.^[6]

In 2006 Echo TV became a media partner of Feratel media technologies AG, based in Austria.^[7]

Gábor Széles sold Echo TV to Fidesz-backed businessman and oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros on December 2, 2016.^[2]

On December 4, 2017 the whole channel was renewed.^[8] 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.^[9]

According to Le Monde, Echo TV was a forum favored among neofascists in Hungary.^[10]

After the 2010 election in Hungary, Echo TV displayed an image of Imre Kertész, a Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz and nobel laureate, alongside a voiceover about rats.^[11] Sándor Pörzse was a well-known host for Echo TV before helping to found Jobbik's paramilitary organization the "Hungarian Guard," later banned by the Hungarian Government.^[12] Sándor Pörzse was removed from the Echo TV in 2009.^[13]

One of Echo TV's better known broadcasters was Ferenc Szaniszló, known for his racist and anti-Semitic statements.^{[10][14][15][16][17][18]} In 2011, Hungary's media regulator fined Echo 500,000 Forints after Szaniszló compared Roma people to "monkeys".^[19]