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Echo TV is a Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Echo Hungária TV Zrt. One of its better known broadcasters is Ferenc Szaniszló known for his racist and anti-Semitic statements.
Creation
The station was founded by Gábor Széles, one of Hungary's richest men and the head of Videoton Holding, a contract electronics manufacturer. 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. Széles reportedly spent two billion Hungarian Forints in creating Echo TV.
In 2006 Echo TV became a media partner of Feratel media technologies AG, based in Austria.
Association with far-right politics
Following Fidesz's victory in the 2010 election in Hungary, during which the anti-Semitic Jobbik party won 16.7% of the vote, Echo TV displayed an image of Imre Kertész, a Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz and nobel laureate, alongside a voiceover about rats. Sándor Pörzse, once a professional football player, became a well known host for Echo-TV before helping to found Jobbik's paramilitary organization the "Hungarian Guard," later banned. In 2011, Hungary's media regulator fined Echo 500,000 Forints after its host, Ferenc Szaniszló, compared Roma people to "monkeys".
According to Le Monde, Echo TV is a forum favored among neofascists in Hungary.
External links
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References
- http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2013/03/24/tancsics-prize-returned/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21834834
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hungarian-government-awards-tancsics-prize-for-journalism-to-notorious-antisemite-ferenc-szaniszlo-8538178.html
- http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/hungarian-journalist-to-return-state-honor-denies-anti-semitism-1.511168
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/20/us-hungary-journalist-idUSBRE92J0AD20130320
- ^ Stolz, Joelle (29 March 2012). "Prime au fascisme en Hongrie". M - Le Monde. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- "Gábor Széles buys daily Magyar Hirlap". MTI Econews. 19 September 2005.
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{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - "Ots news: feratel media technologies AG". AWP OTS. 22 December 2006.
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{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - Oehmke, Philipp (16 December 2011). "Hungary's Right-Wing War on Culture". Spiegel Online International.
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