Claim 626

The number of outlets folded into the new foundation.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: The number of outlets folded into the new foundation.
Field: action
Value: 476 outlets donated to KESMA
About: incident 2018-hungary-kesma-media-merger
Source: Nations in Transit 2019: Hungary
Publisher: Freedom House
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2019-05-01

Quotation from the source

In December, the owners of 476 progovernment titles donated their outlets to a new non-profit entity called KESMA for free; the merger was exempted from antitrust review on "national interest" grounds.