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HUNGARY: WHILE MTV PRESIDENT REFUSES TO QUIT.(Hungarian Television president Karoly Mendreczky)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2002

Hungarian Television (MTV) President Karoly Mendreczky said on 23 April that he will not heed the demand of the Socialist Party to submit his resignation, Hungarian media reported. The Socialists said Mendreczky is responsible for the broadcast on 18 April of a 40-minute supportive report on the FIDESZ electoral campaign, which was followed by a critical report on the campaign of the Socialists.

They also said the network's newscast the same day (the last that election coverage was permitted ahead of the 21 April ballot) gave excessive coverage to FIDESZ. Mendreczky told reporters that the results of the elections will not affect MTV and that the media law prevents his dismissal, to which two-thirds of the MTV board must agree. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 24 April)...

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