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22 unusual facts about RTL Group


1997 German Formula Three season

Opel Team BSR driver Nick Heidfeld won the championship title after a title battle with Benetton RTL Junior's Timo Scheider.

Adrian Geiges

In the 1990s he had worked as a television reporter for Spiegel TV and RTL in Moscow and New York.

CFTM-DT

At first it relied primarily on kinescopes from RTL, and also from Télé Monte Carlo, but it wasn't long before it settled into a more peculiar and local form.

Christian Prudhomme

He joined RTL (Radio-Télévision Luxembourg) in 1985 with the encouragement of his tutor, Michel Cellier, who was RTL correspondent in the Nord region.

Country 1035

After much heart-searching, the station was sold to media giant RTL who made strenuous attempts for nearly three years to turn it around.

Eventually RTL sold RTL Country 1035 as it had become known to Ritz Records, at one time the UK record label for Daniel O'Donnell, but problems within the RMG group resulted in the mother company becoming close to bankruptcy.

Dawn Airey

After its change of ownership in 2010, it was announced Airey would join former owners RTL - she left Channel 5 at the end of October after a handover period.

Diadems

The Diadems was one of the bands created by the 3rd French season of the popular reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel Métropole 6 (better known as M6) in fall 2003.

FM- and TV-mast Hosingen

The FM- and TV-mast Hosingen is the tallest construction in Luxembourg and property of RTL.

Gene Wood

For reference, Burton Richardson has done two of the Goodson-Todman library, now owned by RTL Group.

Istres

Some media reports have said that he had a history of mental illness while the RTL Group claim he is affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Jacques Santer

He also sits on the board of directors of RTL Group, an international TV broadcasting and production company.

Marnach transmitter

Marnach transmitter is a broadcasting facility of RTL near Marnach in the commune of Munshausen, in northern Luxembourg.

Postal codes in Belgium

Special numbers are reserved for the EU institutions, NATO headquarters, public and commercial broadcasters (RTBF, RTL TVi, VRT and VTM), the different parliaments and other public institutions.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Luxembourg

An April 2013 Polimonitor survey commissioned by the Luxemburger Wort and RTL found support for same-sex marriage at 83% and for same-sex adoption at 55%.

Reinout Oerlemans

In September 2005, Oerlemans moved from the commercial broadcasting company RTL, for which he worked for fifteen years, to the public broadcasting association TROS, where he presents for a short while the TROS TV show, replacing TV show-legend Ivo Niehe.

Robert ten Brink

Because SBS 6 had stopped with All You Need is Love and didn't have another program for him to host, he signed a 3-year contract with RTL, where he continued to host Lotto Weekend Miljonairs.

Shahrzad Rafati

In 2013, Shahrzad also closed a strategic partnership and investment with RTL Group, Europe's largest media conglomerate, and a unit of Bertelsmann, one of the world’s largest media companies.

Stan Storimans

Stanislaus N.I.M. (Stan) Storimans (January 8, 1969 Tilburg – August 12, 2008 Gori, Georgia) was a Dutch RTL TV veteran cameraman.

The Poke

French radio broadcasters RTL and France Info also reported the story as real, and television broadcaster Canal + featuring the fictitous 'scandal' on an evening news programme.

Tooske Ragas

In 2005 Breugel switched from RTL to the Dutch public television broadcasting association AVRO where she presented the Junior Songfestival, the presentation of the Televisierring and Help, ik word vader! (Help, I'm becoming a father).

Yorin

The Yorin station was a spin-off of the first commercial Veronica television channel, which was a joint venture (called Holland Media Groep) between the Vereniging Veronica and RTL, owners of RTL 4 and RTL 5.


DIC Entertainment

It was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Frenchman Jean Chalopin in Paris, as a subsidiary of RTL Group (RTL), Europe's leading entertainment company, which today, is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Notre étoile

It was released in 2003 on Universal Licensing Music (ULM) in France after it was created during the third season of the popular French reality show show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel M6.