RTL Nederland
| Industry | Media |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Hilversum, Netherlands |
| Products | Television Radio |
| Owner(s) | RTL Group |
| Website | RTL Nederland |
RTL Nederland is a subsidiary of the RTL Group. The media company is located in Hilversum. Although the licences of it tv-stations RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8 are officially Luxembourgish, the company targets the Dutch market. Current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Bert Habets, who previously was active as CFO within RTL Nederland.
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[edit] Brief history
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 Vereniging Veronica. Veronica became a commercial broadcaster in 1995, when it left the public broadcasting system and jointed CLT-Ufa. 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 Veronica (daytime programming is for Jetix).
Veronica exited the HMG combination in 2001, with the channel being renamed to Yorin by RTL, and RTL Group SA owning 100% of the company. In August 2004, HMG rebranded itself into RTL Nederland. Yorin was also used as name for a radio channel, but this was sold to SBS Nederland beginning 2006. On 12 August 2005, the television channel Yorin was renamed into RTL 7 as a 'new' Luxembourgish tv station.
In August 2007 John de Mol obtained a 26.3% share in RTL Nederland in exchange for his privately owned television channel Tien and national radio station Radio 538. RTL Nederland launched RTL 8 on August 18, 2007. Radio 538 was obtained on October 1, 2007.
[edit] Channels
[edit] Television
[edit] Radio
- RTL Lounge Radio
