RTL Deutschland, together with Gruner + Jahr, is Germany's leading entertainment company, spanning all types of media: TV and streaming, print and digital, radio and podcasts. Bertelsmann is the majority shareholder of RTL Group, which is listed on the Luxembourg and Frankfurt stock exchanges and in the MDAX stock index. As a market leader, RTL Group strives to foster alliances and partnerships within the European media industry, for example by building one-stop advertising sales houses in Germany and the Netherlands with Ad Alliance and driving international advertising sales with RTL AdConnect. The streaming tech company Bedrock and the ad-tech company Smartclip are also owned by RTL Group. Fremantle is one of the world’s largest creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content, responsible for around 12,000 hours of programming per year, alongside an international network of teams operating in more than 25 countries. RTL Group's streaming services include RTL+ in Germany, Videoland in the Netherlands and 6play and Salto in France. RTL Deutschland is the Group’s largest business unit and Germany’s first cross-media champion, operating across TV, streaming, radio, digital and publishing. The Group’s families of TV channels are either number one or number two in six European countries, while RTL Group owns or has interests in radio stations in France, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg.
RTL Group is a leading entertainment company across broadcast, streaming, content and digital, with interests in 56 television channels, eight streaming services and 36 radio stations. We then bring those stories to our audience in every market we are active in. Our roots date back to 1924 and since then, our core purpose is telling stories which are emotional, entertaining, engaging and informative. The German Chancellor will be on official visit to Budapest next Monday.RTL has transformed from a traditional broadcast company to a content, tech and data powerhouse. According to the Hungarian news portal, the reconciliation between the Hungarian government and RTL might have become so urgent, because the German Bertelsmann Group, owner of the RTL channels, started to complain to Angela Merkel over the extraordinarily high marketing tax in Hungary. But better safe than sorry”, he said. Even Gerkens himself moved to a hotel for safety reasons, he said. Meanwhile the CEO of the Hungarian RTL channel told to Business Week, that he moved his family abroad because of the threats they have received recently in Hungary. It seems a rather interesting offer in the light of RTL Klub’s latest announcement: the TV channel, which has been criticizing the government harshly since the introduction of the new marketing tax in the summer, has just hired György Baló, an experienced journalist to lead the RTL’s news magazine, another Hungarian news portal hvg.hu said.Ĥ44.hu also reported that Dirk Gerkens was not willing to leave his post. Exchange for his replacement the marketing tax weighing on RTL in Hungary could be decreased from 50 percent even to 5 percent. In order to reach an agreement, cabinet chief János Lázár has already held talks in München as well as in Budapest with the leaders of the RTL group, including vice-president Andreas Rudas and regional CEO Guillaume de Posch.Īccording to 444.hu, the Hungarian government also wants to see the dismissal of Hungarian RTL’s current CEO Dirk Gerkens.
Referring to unofficial sources, Hungarian news portal 444.hu said the government would have preferred RTL Klub to focus less on domestic politics. According to press speculations, the Hungarian government is ready to “make peace” with the owners of commercial TV channel ‘RTL Klub’.
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