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RTL Group is a leading European entertainment company. It has interests in 54 television and 29 radio stations in 10〔(Rtlgroup :: About Us :: At A Glance )〕 countries. The Luxembourg-based media group operates TV channels and radio stations in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, and Asia as well as production companies throughout the world. It is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Its shares are quoted on the Xetra stock exchange (Germany). It is one of the world's leading producers of television content, such as game shows and soaps (particularly through its ownership of London-based FremantleMedia), including ''The X Factor'', ''Pop Idol'', ''Good Times, Bad Times'', ''The Price Is Right'', ''Family Feud'', and ''The Bill''. ''RTL'' originally stood for ''Radio Television Lëtzebuerg'' (in Luxemburgish), ''Radio Télévision Luxembourg'' (in French) or ''Radio Television Luxemburg'' (in German). Today's RTL Group began in 1924 with a single radio station operated from a private home in Luxembourg. In 1931 ''CLR'' or ''Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion'', which operated Radio Luxembourg, was founded. CLR was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. RTL Group is still an EBU-member under a previous name: CLT Multi Media. In 1954 it was renamed ''CLT'' or ''Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion'' and started television broadcasts. In 1997 it merged with Hamburg-based ''UFA Film- und Fernseh-GmbH'' (successor to the pre-1945 UFA), a subsidiary of global media conglomerate Bertelsmann to create ''CLT-UFA''. In 2000 it merged with Pearson TV and became RTL Group. As of January 2014, Bertelsmann owns a 75.1% stake in the publicly listed company. One of the major reasons for RTL's early success, apart from the merits related to the programming content itself, was that Luxembourg allowed commercial radio and TV stations long before other European countries. This flexibility enabled RTL to transmit to other countries (such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) in their own languages. Many British radio presenters began their careers on Radio Luxembourg before moving to the BBC and to commercial broadcasters in the UK. In the 1970s, Radio Luxembourg's English-language audiences declined as a result of new music stations in the UK, and the service ceased broadcasting in the early 1990s on the Astra 1A satellite, often referred to as the Astra Satellite, as SES only operated one satellite originally. Radio Luxembourg relaunched in November 2005 and is currently available online at www.radioluxembourg.co.uk and on Digital Radio Mondiale. A sister station, Atlantic 252 was a long-wave radio station jointly run by RTL Group and Irish broadcaster RTÉ. It ceased broadcasting live on December 20, 2001. RTL is a member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies that is promoting and establishing an open European standard (called HbbTV) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface. RTL Television (Germany) has been operating HbbTV services since 2010.〔Robert Briel. (''German RTL to support HbbTV'' ). ''Broadband TV News'' August 27, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2009〕 In August 2013, RTL announced a joint venture for the Asian market with CBS Corporation and the launch of two new TV channels. RTL CBS Entertainment will be the first channel, expected to launch in September. Another channel, RTL CBS Extreme is announced for early 2014. The joint venture operates under the newly founded RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network. In 2014, European broadcasting group RTL Group had taken control of StyleHaul, a YouTube fashion platform. RTL raised its stake in StyleHaul to 93.6 percent for $107 million. ==Television stations== * Asia :RTL CBS Entertainment :RTL CBS Extreme :BIG RTL Thrill * Belgium :RTL TVI :Club RTL :Plug RTL * Croatia :RTL Televizija :RTL 2 :RTL Kockica :RTL PLUS (until 2015.) :RTL Living (since 2015.) :RTL Crime (since 2015.) :RTL Passion (since 2015.) * France :M6 :M6 Boutique & Co :Paris Première :RTL9 :Série Club :Téva :TF6 :6ter :W9 :M6 Music Hits :M6 Music Black :M6 Music Club * Germany :RTL Television :VOX :RTL II :Super RTL :n-tv :Passion :RTL Crime :RTL Living :RTL Nitro :GEO Television * Hungary :RTL Klub :RTL II :Cool TV :Film+ :Film+ 2 :RTL + :Sorozat+ :Muzsika TV * Luxembourg :RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg :Den 2. RTL * Netherlands (''RTL Nederland'', formerly known as ''Holland Media Groep'' or ''HMG'' and until 1995 RTL 4 SA) :RTL 4 (started in 1989 as RTL Veronique, renamed in 1990 as RTL 4) :RTL 5 :RTL 7 (formerly known as Yorin) :RTL 8 (formerly known as Talpa, Tien) :RTL Z :RTL Lounge :RTL Crime :RTL Telekids :RTL 24 (TV on your mobile) * Spain :Grupo Antena 3 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RTL Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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