n-tv

n-tv
Launched	30 November 1992
Owned by	Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (a Time Warner company) RTL Group
Picture format	16:9 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Slogan	Der Nachrichtensender (The News Channel)
Country	Germany
Broadcast area	National Also distributed in: Austria Switzerland Liechtenstein
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Sister channel(s)	CNN CNN-IBN CNN en Español CNN Chile HLN CNN Turk CNN International CNNj Chilevisión CNN Arabic CNN.de
Website	http://www.n-tv.de/
Availability
Satellite
Astra 1L (Europe)	12.188 GHz H / 27.5
Cable
IPTV
Streaming media
Windows Media	Live Streaming

Old logo of n-tv, used from 2003 until 2008

n-tv is a German television news channel owned by the Bertelsmann AG Media's RTL Group and an affiliate network of CNN since the networks creation in 1992. n-tv screens news and weather every hour and half-hour in the morning; in between, it broadcasts informational programmes and advertising.

History

n-tv began as a business development project at Time-Warner International which, under the leadership of then chairman Steve Ross, was looking for ways to grow its businesses internationally. Time-Warner at the time was a major shareholder in Turner Broadcasting, parent company of CNN (both now subsidiaries of Time-Warner) and began looking for ways to get into the news channel business internationally. In 1991, under the direction of Tom McGrath, the then-president of Time-Warner International Broadcasting, the company developed a strategy for Austria, Germany and the German-speaking territories of Switzerland.

This in time led to the launch of the VIVA music TV channel, VOX network and several local TV stations. One of McGrath's pet projects was a German language 24-hour news channel. McGrath secured the last available transponder on the Kopernikus satellite and secured several terrestrial television licenses for transmission of what would become n-tv. McGrath then recruited several German companies as partners including the Otto Group, APAX Partners and recruited Karl Kuhlo, an experienced German broadcaster as the CEO. The current chief executive officer is Hans Demmel.

Wall Street coverage

Several correspondents report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and the New York Mercantile Exchange, including Jens Korte, Lars Halter and Markus Koch.

Moderators

News Rommy Arndt Gesa Eberl Verena Fels Jule Gölsdorf Jennifer Knäble Isabelle Körner Nadja Kriewald (Foreign report) Annett Möller Ulrich von der Osten Petra Schwarzenberg Christiane Stein Christoph Teuner (Chief moderator) Michel Weber Christoph Jens Hoffmann David Oertling

Economy Sabrina Bauer (Frankfurter Börse) Raimund Brichta Katja Dofel (Frankfurter Börse) Annette Eimermacher Carola Ferstl Astrid Fronja Beate Hoffbauer Jens Korte Hermann Kutzer Frank Meyer Friedhelm Tilgen Corinna Wohlfeil Sandra Navidi (External Finance Advisor) Network reporter Moritz Wedel

Talk Manfred Bleskin Heiner Bremer Leo Busch Christoph Keese Lothar Späth Sports Britta Hofmann Nico Holter Timo Latsch Rolf Niebuhr Weather Björn Alexander Eva Imhof Constance Ahlers

External links

• Media related to N-tv at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (German)