Hír TV is a Hungarian television news channel, the first of such made in the country. It began broadcasting on 2 January 2003. History Initial years On 26 November 2002, the TV channel was registered using 20 million Hungarian forints (~64.350 euros) of capital. The first CEO of television was Gábor Borókai, who had recently served as Viktor Orbán's first government spokesman (from 1998 to 2002), and the first editor-in-chief was Imre Dlusztus, who was the sometime editor-in-chief of Délmagyarország (meaning "Southern Hungary"), the local newspaper of Szeged. The first test broadcast began on 2 December 2002. After one month of test broadcasts, the TV channel started its regular broadcasting on 2 January 2003, according to contract with several cable television companies. Role in the 2006 protests in Hungary Hír TV was the only channel to broadcast continuous live coverage of the 2006 anti-government protests in Hungary. The channel's reports were aired on every Hungarian television channel, as well as on CNN, and via Reuters, the BBC, Euronews and Sky News. Hír TV continued to report on all of the events that took place during the protests. On 18 September 2006, when demonstrators tried to storm the headquarters of the public broadcaster Magyar Televízió in Szabadság tér, the fights that broke out between the police and the protesters at the entrance to the building were not broadcast by Magyar Televízió. Instead, they continued to broadcast their primetime investigation programme Az Este with anchorman György Baló, and he made an announcement at the end of programme that "the television is obsessing by protesters". Due to the Hír TV coverage, the siege of the Magyar Televízió headquarters building by the anti-government protesters was seen by 1 million viewers in Hungary. Following the demonstrations and the storming of the Magyar Televízió headquarters, the National Radio and Television Board (ORTT) ruled in its report that the Hír TV channel had violated the "law of objective and factual information providing" and the law of "respect the Hungarian Republic's constitutional order". The channel consequently received a fine of 1 million Hungarian forints for breaching their legal obligations. 2007–2014 The first big development came on 15 March 2007, when Hír TV and the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet (meaning "Hungarian Nation") started up a new radio station called Lánchíd Rádió. In September 2007, the channel's logo was redesigned and modifications were also made to the programme structure: a