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24th April, 2025
TV2 CEO fired after interview
TV2’s CEO Pavel Stanchev is leaving his post by mutual consent after six years, the Fidesz-aligned broadcaster informed Telex on Tuesday night in a short statement.
Other media sources say he was forced to step down as a result of comments in an interview with website 24.
Stanchev will be replaced by Miklós Vaszily, who has longstanding ties to Fidesz-friendly outlets and was previously chairman of TV2’s board.
He is also one of the owners of the Indamedia group, which owns Index.
TV2 praised the outgoing CEO for his role in strengthening the broadcaster’s market-leading position and for the successful international expansion, as the company acquired the Slovenian Planet TV channel family in October 2020, also led by Stanchev.
A badly timed interview on the “wrong platform, with the wrong message” cost Stanchev his position, one source told industry website Mediapiac. In a March interview with 24, the Franco-Bulgarian executive openly distanced himself from a widely criticised report on Péter Magyar, where the opposition leader is shown fiddling in his pocket and allegedly touching his genitals, calling the segment "poor taste."
His comments were viewed as a rebuke to the channel’s editorial line, sources said.
The decision to speak to 24, a site owned by Zoltan Varga, a well-known government critic, further exacerbated tensions with owners, sources added.
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Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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