Magyar Jeti Zrt., the publisher of 444, Qubit and Lakmusz, is one of Hungary’s most important independent digital media companies. Its 2025 accounts show a rare combination in the Hungarian market: a growing newsroom business, substantial reader and grant support, strong liquidity, and a solid profit after years of operating in a media environment that…
RTL Hungary is one of Hungary’s two leading commercial broadcasters and the country’s most important independent, foreign-owned television group, a significant counterweight in a media market dominated that has been dominated by the pro-government press. Its 2025 accounts mark a turnaround: net revenue rose 8.4% to HUF 60.94 billion (€153.2 million), and the company swung…
Mediaworks is the largest press company in Hungary and the commercial core of the pro-government media bloc built during Viktor Orbán’s rule. Its 2025 accounts tell a stark story: revenue rose 4.5% to 59.7 billion forints (€149.9 million), the operating business was broadly stable, and yet the company recorded a net loss of 14.08 billion…
Magyar Narancs is one of the few independent, liberal voices to have survived Hungary’s long period of media concentration under Fidesz, and its 2025 accounts capture the last full financial year of that era. Core sales rose modestly, by 2.4% to 246.3 million forints (€619,000), but rising staff and financial costs pushed the company into…
Heti Világgazdaság Kiadói Zrt. (HVG Kiadó), the employee-founded Budapest publisher of Hungary’s leading economic and political weekly HVG and the news portal hvg.hu, and one of the country’s few large independent media businesses, reported net revenue of 5.22 billion forints (€13.11 million) for 2025, up just 1.3% on 2024. The story is in the profit…
Central Médiacsoport Zrt., the Budapest publisher of the independent news site 24.hu and the women’s weekly Nők Lapja, and one of the last large domestically owned independent media groups in Hungary, reported net revenue of 14.57 billion forints (€36.62 million) for 2025, up 2.2% on 2024. Net profit fell 13% to 2.19 billion forints (€5.51…