RTL Nederland

RTL Nederland
Industry	Media
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Hilversum, Netherlands
Products	Television Radio
Owner	RTL Group
Parent	Bertelsmann
Website	RTL Nederland

RTL Nederland is a subsidiary of the RTL Group. The media company is located in Hilversum. Although the licences of its TV-stations RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8 are issued by Luxembourg, the company targets the Dutch market. Its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Bert Habets, who used to be the Chief Financial Officer of RTL Nederland.

Brief history

RTL flags

Until 2004 RTL Nederland was known as the Holland Media Group (HMG), a joint-venture founded in 1996 between RTL 4 SA (CLT-UFA) and Veronica Association. Veronica became a commercial broadcaster in 1995, when it left the public broadcasting system (owned by NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting) at the time) and joined RTL. RTL 4 SA then consisted of the two television channels RTL 4 and RTL 5. HMG partnered with Saban in the television channel TV10. Fox later bought HMG's share in TV10, but failed to obtain its goals and sold the operation to SBS Broadcasting, which, in turn, rebranded the channel as V8.

Veronica exited the HMG combination in 2001, and the channel was renamed Yorin by RTL. RTL Group SA owned 100% of the company. In August 2004, HMG renamed itself RTL Nederland. On 12 August 2005, the television channel Yorin was renamed RTL 7 as a 'new' Luxembourgish TV station. Radio station Yorin FM was sold to SBS Broadcasting in 2006, which renamed it Caz!.

In August 2007 Dutch media mogul John de Mol's company Talpa Media Holding obtained a 26.3% share in RTL Nederland in exchange for its television channel Tien and national radio station Radio 538. RTL Nederland launched RTL 8 on 18 August 2007. In 2011 Talpa worked with Finnish media conglomerate Sanoma to buy the Dutch activities of SBS Broadcasting from German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media. As part of that deal De Mol sold his shares in RTL Nederland to the RTL Group. He retained the ownership of Radio 538 and its sister stations Radio 10 Gold and SLAM!FM.

Channels

Television

RTL 4
RTL 5
RTL 7
RTL 8
RTL Z
RTL Crime - Digital only
RTL Lounge - Digital only
RTL Telekids - Digital only

Radio

RTL Lounge Radio

References

Contant, Peter (2000) "De TV-Oorlog" Utrecht/Antwerpen, Kosmos-Z&K Uitgevers, ISBN 90-215-8579-0

External links

RTL Nederland

RTL Group

Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland Germany, Austria and Switzerland	TV: RTL Television VOX RTL II^{[gl 1]} Super RTL^{[gl 2]} n-tv RTL Crime RTL Living Passion RTL Nitro GEO Television Radio: RTL Radio 104.6 RTL, Antenne Bayern^{[gl 3]} Radio Hamburg^{[gl 4]} Radio NRW^{[gl 5]} 105'5 Spreeradio Radio 21 (Germany)^{[gl 6]} Radio Regenbogen^{[gl 7]} Big FM^{[gl 8]} Hitradio RTL Sachsen^{[gl 9]} Hit-Radio Antenne^{[gl 10]} Radio Brocken (50%) 89.0 RTL Antenne Thüringen (15%) Radio Ton (2%) Rock Antenne^{[gl 3]} Sachsen Funkpaket (31/9%) Radio Dresden Radio Leipzig Radio Chemnitz Radio Lausitz Radio Zwickau Radio Erzgebirge Vogtland Radio Oldie 95 (4.78%) Radio Top 40 (15%)

RTL Nederland Netherlands	TV: RTL 4 RTL 5 RTL 7 RTL 8 RTL Crime RTL Lounge RTL Telekids RTL Z Radio: RTL Lounge Radio

M6 Group (48.6%) France	M6 W9 6ter Paris Première Téva Série Club^{[gl 11]} TF6^{[gl 11]} M6 Boutique & Co M6 Music M6 Music Black M6 Music Club Best of Shopping Girondins TV

France	TV: RTL9^{[gl 12]} Radio: RTL RTL 2 Fun Radio RTL L'Equipe^{[gl 13]}

RTL Belgium	TV: RTL-TVI ^{[gl 14]} Club RTL ^{[gl 14]} Plug RTL ^{[gl 14]} Radio: Bel RTL (44.2%) ^{[gl 14]} Radio Contact (44.2%) ^{[gl 14]} Mint (44,2%)^{[gl 14]}

RTL Luxembourg	TV: RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg Den 2. RTL Radio: RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg RTL Radio

RTL Hrvatska Croatia	RTL RTL 2 RTL Kockica RTL Living RTL Passion RTL Crime

Magyar RTL Televízió Hungary	RTL Klub RTL II Prizma TV Cool Film+ Film+2 Sorozat+

Atresmedia Spain	TV: Antena 3 (HD) laSexta (HD) Neox Nova Mega Atreseries (only HD) Radio: Onda Cero Europa FM Melodia FM

RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network Asia	RTL CBS Entertainment^{[gl 15]} RTL CBS Extreme^{[gl 15]}

India	Big RTL Thrill^{[gl 16]}

Production	FremantleMedia FremantleMedia Australia Blue Circle (Television production) Blu Productions Talkback (production company) Thames (production company) Retort (production company) Boundless (production company) UFA Grundy UFA Teamworx Phoenix Film

↑ joint venture with Tele München Fernseh, Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Burda. ↑ joint venture with The Walt Disney Company. 1 2 joint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft, Axel Springer AG, Burda, Studio Gong, m.b.t. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft. ↑ joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag. ↑ joint venture with Pressefunk Nordrhein-Westfalen and Westdeutscher Rundfunk. ↑ joint venture with Funk & Fernsehen Nordwestdeutschland, Antenne Niedersachen and Niedersachsen Radio. ↑ joint venture with Mediengruppe Dr. Haas. ↑ joint venture with Rheinland-Pfälzische Rundfunk. ↑ joint venture with Broadcast Sachsen. ↑ joint venture with Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, Studio Gong Niedersachsen and Brune-Rieck-Beteiligungs. 1 2 joint venture with TF1 Group. ↑ joint venture with AB Groupe. ↑ joint venture with L'Équipe. 1 2 3 4 5 6 joint venture with TVI, LEMAIRE ELECTRONICS and Rossel. 1 2 joint venture with CBS Studios International. ↑ joint venture with Reliance Broadcast Network.

Bertelsmann

RTL Group
(75.1%)

Mediagroup RTL Germany (+Austria & Switzerland)	TV RTL VOX RTL II^{[gl 1]} Super RTL^{[gl 2]} n-tv RTL Crime RTL Living RTL Passion RTL Nitro Radio RTL Radio 104.6 RTL Radio Hamburg^{[gl 3]} BigFM^{[gl 4]} 89.0 RTL

RTL Nederland	TV RTL 4 RTL 5 RTL 7 RTL 8 RTL Z RTL Lounge RTL Crime RTL Telekids

M6 Group (48.6%) (France)	TV M6 W9 6ter Paris Première TF6^{[gl 5]} M6 Boutique & Co M6 Music M6 Music Black RTL9^{[gl 6]} Radio RTL RTL 2 Fun Radio

RTL Belgium	TV RTL-TVI Club RTL Plug RTL^{[gl 7]} Radio Radio Contact^{[gl 7]} Bel RTL^{[gl 7]}

RTL Luxembourg	TV RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg Radio RTL Radio

RTL Croatia	TV RTL Televizija RTL 2

Hungary RTL TV	TV RTL Klub RTL II Cool

Atresmedia (Spain)	TV Antena 3 (HD) laSexta (HD) Neox Nova Mega Radio Onda Cero Europa FM

FremantleMedia	FremantleMedia Australia Talkback Thames UFA Grundy UFA Buzzr

Gruner + Jahr

Brigitte Capital GEO Stern Sächsische Zeitung (60%) Der Spiegel (25%)

Prisma Press	Femme Actuelle Prima Voici VSD

Motor Press Stuttgart	sport auto Aerokurier Auto, Motor und Sport

News (56%)	NEWS Profil

arvato

Bertelsmann Education Group

Alliant International University
Relias Learning

Other assets

BMG Rights Management
Penguin Random House
Verlagsgruppe Random House (Goldmann)

↑ joint venture with Tele München Fernseh, Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Burda.
↑ joint venture with The Walt Disney Company.
↑ joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.
↑ joint venture with Rheinland-Pfälzische Rundfunk.
↑ joint venture with TF1 Group.
↑ joint venture with AB Groupe.
1 2 3 joint venture with TVI, LEMAIRE ELECTRONICS and Rossel.

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