Regular test transmissions could be received in Hungary from February 23, 1957. Transmissions began officially on 1 May 1957, when the May Day ceremonies were brought to the viewers for the first time. Daily news programmes began on July 2, 1957. At the beginning of 1958 a 12 storey technical building equipped with a 38 meter high antenna mast was built on the hill of Széchenyi in Budapest. (See the stamp on the left).