Editing Television licence (section)

===Hungary===
In [[Hungary]], licence fees nominally exist, but since 2002 residential fees have been paid from the state budget.<ref>{{cite book
| title = Television across Europe: regulation, policy and independence: Hungary
| publisher = EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP)/ Open Society Institute (OSI)
|year=2005
| isbn = 978-1-891385-35-3
| url = http://www.eumap.org/topics/media/television_europe/national/hungary/media_hun1.pdf  | pages = 789–864| author = Open Society Institute, EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program; Network Media Program.}}
</ref> This means that funding for [[Magyar Televízió]] and [[Duna TV]] comes directly from taxation. Commercial venues such as hotels and bars also had their fees paid between 2002 and 2007, but since then they have needed to make a payment per television set.

Ever since privatisation in 1995,<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.ce-review.org/99/6/tv_csardas6.html
| title = Screen Test: TV broadcasting in Hungary
| author = Gusztav Kosztolanyi
| publisher = Central Europe Review
| date = 31 July 1999
| access-date = 14 June 2010
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100324115044/http://www.ce-review.org/99/6/tv_csardas6.html
| archive-date = 24 March 2010
| url-status = usurped
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.ce-review.org/99/7/csardas7.html
| title = "No one's jamming their transmission...": TV broadcasting in Hungary – Episode Two: Privatisation and scandal
| author = Gusztav Kosztolanyi
| publisher = Central Europe Review
| date = 6 August 1999
| access-date = 14 June 2010
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607002808/http://www.ce-review.org/99/7/csardas7.html
| archive-date = 7 June 2011
| url-status = usurped
}}</ref> the public broadcaster MTV has had persistent financial difficulties.<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/12327
 |title        = Hungary's media landscape
 |publisher    = Wieninternational
 |date         = 29 January 2009
 |access-date   = 14 June 2010
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100814191008/http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/12327
 |archive-date = 14 August 2010
|url-status     = dead
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref> During the [[Late-2000s recession|2009 financial crisis]], parliament cut their funding by more than 30 per cent, a move that was publicly condemned by the EBU.<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.ebu.ch/en/union/news/2009/tcm_6-66649.php
 |publisher    = [[European Broadcasting Union]]
 |title        = EBU urges rethink of cuts to Hungary's public broadcaster
 |date         = 11 November 2009
 |access-date   = 14 June 2010
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607055222/http://www.ebu.ch/en/union/news/2009/tcm_6-66649.php
 |archive-date = 7 June 2011
|url-status     = dead
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>