RTL (Croatian TV channel)

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RTL
Rtl-logo.svg
CountryCroatia
HeadquartersZagreb
Programming
Picture format1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Ownership
OwnerRTL Group
Sister channelsRTL 2
RTL Kockica
RTL Living
RTL Crime
RTL Passion
RTL Adria
RTL Croatia World
History
Launched30 April 2004; 17 years ago (2004-04-30)
Links
Websitewww.rtl.hr

RTL (previously known as RTL Televizija), is a Croatian free-to-air television network that was launched in 30 April 2004. It is 99.9% owned by the RTL Group.[3]

It was launched as the second commercial television network with national concession in Croatia, the first being Nova TV.

On 15 May 2014, RTL Group announced the appointment of , Managing Director of the news provider Enex, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RTL Hrvatska with effect from 1 July 2014. Tewes succeed Johannes Züll who left RTL Group to become CEO at the German production company Studio Hamburg. Following a proposal from Henning Tewes, , than Editor-in-chief of RTL Hrvatska and a member of the company's Executive Board, was promoted to Deputy CEO of RTL Hrvatska, also effective 1 July 2014.

On 12th November 2019, as part of a nationwide transition to the DVB-T2 broadcast standard among all Croatian broadcasters, the channel including with RTL 2, RTL Kockica, , RTL Living, and RTL Crime launched their HD feeds.

A month later, on 20th December 2019, RTL introduced a new flat logo and graphics package that replaces the Phoenica font (used by the German parent channel RTL in its on-air appearance) with the well-known FF DIN font. The slogan is now “Više od Televizije” (More than Television).

Program[]

Own production[]

Since going on air, RTL Televizija has been broadcasting its own daily news program. On working days, there are three news broadcasts, Monday to Thursday at 16:30 and at 18:30 CET and late news and current affairs around 22:15 CET. On Fridays and weekends, there are two news programme, at 16:30 and at 18:30 CET.

Since the very beginning, the station has been producing its own content, such as daily talk show Sanja, dating game show , quiz show , entertainment show , talk music show , daily soap opera Zabranjena ljubav (Forbidden Love), magazine shows and , later . RTL Televizija also produced the Croatian version of Big Brother, which was the most popular television program in Croatia when it aired. In 2006, the station also started to produce their own sitcom, Bibin svijet (Biba's World). Talk show , drama series , Krv nije voda, , , shows and , fashion show , culinary shows and were also RTL produced programme. More recent productions include game show , sitcom , co-production with FIST production, quiz show , game shows and , docu-soap , drama series Ruža vjetrova, , Vatre ivanjske, music show , culinary shows , , , magazine show and music show X Factor Adria, co-production of with Prva Srpska Televizija. Since 2018 music show .

Some of the other popular reality shows from their own production included Dvornikovi (The Dvornik Family), a 2006 series similar to The Osbournes and featuring the family of the late Croatian musician Dino Dvornik, Knjaz's entertainment shows Mjenjačnica, Koledžicom po svijetu, Najveći hrvatski misteriji. Mijenjam ženu was the Croatian version of Wife Swap.

Sports[]

Since the very beginnings, RTL Televizija have been broadcasting daily sports news during all of their daily news programs. The majority of their sports program has otherwise always consisted of various association football matches. Between 2004 and 2007, they were regularly broadcasting the away matches of the Croatian national football team, but since 2008 these matches are again broadcast by Croatia's public broadcaster HRT.[citation needed]

RTL Televizija occasionally also broadcast boxing bouts and the highlights of the Red Bull Air Race events. They also bought the TV rights for all the matches of the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship, which was held in Croatia. This proved to be a big hit to Croatia's public broadcaster HRT, who even threatened to take legal action against RTL after they refused to sell them the rights to broadcast the match highlights during their news programs.[4]

Audience share[]

  • 2004 :7.3%
  • 2005:6.2%
  • 2006:5.9%
  • 2007:5.3%
  • 2008:5.1%
  • 2009:4.4%
  • 2010:4.2%
  • 2011:4.3%
  • 2012:3.2%
  • 2013:4.2%
  • 2014:4.4%
  • 2015:2.2%
  • 2016:2.2%
  • 2017:6.3%
  • 2018:7.3%

Audience share (target: 18–49)[]

  • 2004 : 29.5%
  • 2005 : 28.6%
  • 2006 : 28.6%
  • 2008 : 26.4%
  • 2009 : 26.2%
  • 2010 : 26.1%
  • 2011 : 26.4%
  • 2015 : 13,4%

[3]

Advertising share[]

The following information is from [1]

  • 2004 : 16.3%
  • 2005 : 38.4%
  • 2006 : 42.9%

References[]

  1. ^ Novi korporativni identitet RTL Televizije u jarkim bojama — RTL Hrvatska
  2. ^ Novi izgled vaše omiljene televizije — RTL Televizija
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "RTL Televizija Fact Sheen of 99.99%". Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  4. ^ "RTL: Super je da nas HRT tuži jer krše zakon zadnjih pet godina" (in Croatian)

External links[]

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