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Revision as of 22:14, 12 December 2006
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 34 television and 33 radio stations in 11 countries. This Luxembourg-based media group operates TV channels and radio stations in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Spain, Hungary, Portugal and Croatia, and production companies in the United States.
It is one of the world's leading producers of television content such as game shows and soaps, including Pop Idol, Good Times, Bad Times, The Price Is Right, Family Feud, The Bill, and, under licence from Mark Burnett Productions, the producer of non-US versions, and distributor of all versions internationally, of The Apprentice.
The now-defunct Atlantic 252 was a long-wave radio station jointly run by RTL Group and Irish broadcaster RTÉ.It ceased broadcasting live on Thursday December 20th 2001.
RTL originally stood for Radio Télévision Luxembourg (in French) or Radio Télé Luxemburg (in German).
The RTL Group started in 1931 as CLR or Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion which operated Radio Luxembourg. In 1954 it was renamed CLT or Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion and started television broadcasts. In 1997 it merged with Hamburg-based UFA Film- und Fernseh-GmbH (not to be confused with pre 1945 UFA) to create CLT-UFA. In 2000 it merged with Pearson TV and became RTL Group, which also allowed it to enter the prestigious American broadcast market. As of October 2005, 90.4% of the company is owned Bertelsmann.
One of the major reasons for RTL's early success, apart from the merits related to the programming content itself, was that Luxembourg allowed commercial radio and TV stations long before other European countries. This flexibility enabled RTL to transmit to other countries (such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) in their own languages. Many British radio presenters began their careers on Radio Luxembourg before moving to the BBC and to commercial broadcasters in the UK. In the 1970s, Radio Luxembourg's English-language audiences declined as a result of new music stations in the UK, and the service ceased broadcasting in the early 1990s on the Astra Satellite. Radio Luxembourg relaunched in November 2005 and is currently available online at www.radioluxembourg.co.uk and on Digital Radio Mondiale.
Television stations
- Belgium (with percentage of total shares held by RTL Group)
- France (with percentage of total shares held by RTL Group)
- Fun TV (100 %)
- M6 (48,8 %)
- M6 Boutique La Chaîne (100 %)
- M6 Music Hits (100 %)
- M6 Music Rock (100 %)
- M6 Music Black (100 %)
- Paris Première (100 %)
- RTL 9 (35 %)
- Série Club (50 %)
- Téva (51 %)
- TF6 (50 %)
- W9 (100 %)
- Germany (with percentage of total shares held by RTL Group)
- RTL Television (100 %)
- RTL II (35,9 %)
- Super RTL (50 %)
- RTL Shop (89,76 %)
- Vox (99,7 %)
- n-tv (100 %)
- K1010 (19,87 %)
- Traumpartner TV (100 %)
- Passion (50 %, pay-TV)
- RTL Crime (100%, pay-TV)
- RTL Living (100 %, pay-TV)
- Netherlands (RTL Nederland, formerly known as Holland Media Groep or HMG)
The money-losing Polish-language RTL 7 satellite television channel has been sold in December 2001 to TVN owners ITI and became TVN 7.
Technical Services
- Located in Luxembourg, Broadcasting Center Europe is an European company providing technical services in the fields of TV, Radio, Telecommunications and IT. BCE was founded in January 2000 as a result of the merger of several technical entities of the RTL Group.