RTL Group

The RTL Group is Europe’s largest private television network. RTL is an abbreviation for Radio Télévision Luxembourg. The group’s headquarters are based in Luxembourg City. This entry provides an overview of the RTL Group, including its history and contemporary, global developments.

The RTL Group encompasses 61 television channels and 30 radio stations in nine European countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, and [Page 1502]Russia. A second line of business is content production: the RTL Group produces 9,000 hours of television programming across 62 countries worldwide. The third main source of revenue is global rights trading. The RTL Group distributes over 20,000 hours of content to over 150 territories and holds licence operations for building brands across multiple platforms, live events, gaming, mobile, ...