With its headquarters in Budapest and regional offices around the country, MR was responsible for public service broadcasting throughout the Hungarian Republic. As well as maintaining regional studios, the corporation produced multiple different Hungarian-language radio channels (Kossuth, Petőfi, and Bartók) covering the full range of public-service radio provision, and a fourth channel (MR4) aimed at the country's linguistic minorities.
Kossuth Rádió
Created in 1925, and named after Lajos Kossuth, the channel is the official radio station of Hungary. It is the main channel of Hungarian Radio. It primarily broadcasts news, including interviews, discussions, reports, and other speech-based programmes.
Petőfi Rádió
Named after the poet Sándor Petőfi, the station is aimed at younger generations and broadcasts pop music.
Bartók Rádió
Named after the composer Béla Bartók, this is a dedicated classical music station. It hosts high-cultured talk programes in addition to orchestral and opera music. Supposedly, only a few thousand people listen to this station and proposals to terminate Rádió Bartók have been made several times, but never enacted.[citation needed]
Nemzetiségi Rádió
This radio channel airs programmes in languages of the national minorities of Hungary.
Parlamenti Adások
Parliamentarian broadcasts.
Dankó Rádió
Named after Pista Dankó, this radio station airs regional content throughout Hungary, plays folk music, and broadcasts operetta shows. It claims to be available 24/7 on the internet and FM. Also broadcasting on weekdays via medium wave. Then the station's frequencies are handed over to Kossuth Rádió for the rest of the night.
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Ever since its foundation, the Hungarian Radio P.L.C. has been a "citadel"[citation needed] of domestic information, and cultural life. Since December 1, 1925, the institution has had a decisive role in forming Hungarian public opinion and general taste, even as regular television broadcasts were launched in Hungary in 1958.
Hungarian Radio is a partner to its domestic audience and a point of connection with the Hungarian diaspora. Hungarian Radio uses the slogan often heard in radio commercials: "From clear source only".[clarification needed] The buildings and studios of the Radio are located in Budapest, in the block between Bródy Sándor Street and Pollack Mihály Square. There are also two beautiful palaces in this area, one of them was owned earlier by the Eszterházys and the other one by the Károlyi family. The construction of Studio No. 6, the big orchestra studio, is linked with Georg von Békésy’s name, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his acoustic researches in 1961.
On July 1, 2007, Radio Budapest cancelled programming in foreign languages.[citation needed]
On December 22, 2012, all regional public service radio programs were cancelled[6][7] and regional studios closed permanently.[8]
On June 30, 2011, Magyar Radio closed its Radio Theatre Office and dismissed all dramaturgy staff.[9]
Digital Radio Broadcasting (DAB+) experiments, which carried all public service stations and were never licensed commercially, was terminated on September 5, 2020.[10]
