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RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company. It has 26 television and 24 radio stations in 9 countries. This Luxembourg-based media group operates TV channels and radio stations in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Spain, Hungary and Croatia. It is one of theworld's leading producers of television content such as game shows and soaps, including Pop Idol, Good Times, Bad Times , Family Feud and The Bill.
RTL originally stood for Radio Télévision Luxembourg or Radio-Télé-Luxembourg.
The RTL Group started in 1931 as CLR or Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion which operated Radio Luxembourg. In 1954 it renamed itself into CLT or Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion and started televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p broadcasts. In 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t it merged with HamburgHamburg is Germany's second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediaeval Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg is a city state and one of Germany's sixteen-based UFA Film- und Fernseh-GmbH (not to be confused with East German UFAThe Universum Film Archiv UFA or Universe Film Archive was the major commercial German film studio in the early part of the 20th century until the end of the second World War. Subsequently its property became part of the GDR (East Germany) and became the) to create CLT-UFA. In 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri it merged with PearsonPearson plc is a London-based media conglomerate. It is the largest book publisher in the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the US and Canada. In 2003 it had sales of £4,048m ($7,246m) and operating profits of £490m ($877m). TV and became RTL Group. It is currently majority-owned by Bertelsmann AGBertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gutersloh, Germany. Corporate divisions are the European broadcaster RTL Group, the Gruner und Jahr (G+J) magazine publisher (biggest in Europe and second biggest world wide), the.
Among the reasons of RTL Group's success, apart for merits related to the content itself, one can cite the fact that Luxembourg allowed privately owned radio and TV stations long before other European countries did.
1 Television stations
- RTL TVI
- Club RTL
- Plug TV
- RTL Televizija
- M6
- RTL 9
- RTL Television
- RTL II
- Vox
- Super RTL
- RTL Shop
- n-tv
- RTL Klub
- RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
- Den 2. RTL
- RTL 4
- Yorin
- RTL 5
- Antena 3
- Five
The money-losing Polish-language RTL 7 satellite television chanel has been sold in December 2001 to TVN owners ITI and became TVN 7 .
