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• PartyGaming Plc ("PartyGaming" or the "Company") - Cooperation With RTL Interactive.

  - 2007-11-07

  GIBRALTAR, November 7 /PRNewswire/ -- PartyGaming, the world's leading listed online gaming company, announces that it has entered into an exclusive arrangement with RTL interactive, a subsidiary of RTL Television in Germany and part of the RTL Group, Europe's leading entertainment and...

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• Zeiler urges digital push.(Mip News)(Gerhard Zeiler)(Brief article)

  - 2007-04-17

  RTL Group CEO Gerhard Zeiler kicked off the first in a series of keynote addresses at this year's Mip TV confab Monday with an optimistic speech titled "Capturing Digital Opportunities: Traditional Media Strikes Back." In a Q&A with Variety's editor at...

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• ARD, RTL claim wins.(World News)(RTL Group S.A.)(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-03

  Pubcaster ARD won Germany's ratings battle in 2006 for total viewers ahead of rival ZDF, but commercial web RTL was the champion in the key 14-49 demo. Benefiting from surging viewer interest in the World Cup soccer tournament and the Winter...

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• RTL topper to speak at MIP.(RTL Group, Gerhard Zeiler)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-13

  The next Milia/Mip TV program sales mart has snagged RTL Group chief exec Gerhard Zeiler as a keynote speaker, organizer Reed Midem announced Tuesday. The Teutonic TV topper, named personality of the year at the Mipcom TV mart in 2004, will...

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• Schmit's focus turns to families.(Super RTL's market share after Claude Schmit joins the company)

  - 2006-11-20

  Although faced with increasing competition in the Teutonic tyke TV market, Claude Schmit has steered Super RTL to ever greater heights since taking the helm at the RTL and Disney-owned children's channel in 1999. A former marketing and sales exec at...

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• SES NEW SKIES provides RTL Television with special event Internet access services at Formula 1 Grand Prix races.(CONTRACTS)

  - 2006-11-01

  SES NEW SKIES, an SES GLOBAL company, announced it has successfully provided special event satellite Internet services supporting RTL Television's coverage of the Formula 1 Grand Prix races. The German broadcaster has used capacity on the company's NSS-6 and NSS-7 satellites for high-speed Internet access services...

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• Digital fires up Five ...(RTL Group S.A.)(Brief article)

  - 2006-10-18

  They've been a long time coming, but early indications are that Five's new digital weblets, Five U.S. and Five Life, which bowed Monday and Sunday, respectively, may pay dividends for the broadcaster. The arrival of Five U.S. Monday night helped give...

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• Pricey telepics capture imagination, ratings.

  - 2006-10-02

  BERLIN Broadcasters have boldly tackled a broad range of topics in high-profile telepics this year. From the World War II bombing of Dresden to a meteorological disaster movie with an environmental message, splashy event movies have become important staple programming ...

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• RTL Group lifts Heggen to CFO.(Elmar Heggen)(Brief article)

  - 2006-09-21

  RTL Group has named Elmar Heggen chief financial officer following the resignation of Ignace Van Meenen. Heggen, currently exec VP of regional operations and development at RTL, moves into the new post Oct. 1. Van Meenen...

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• Germany's got talent: a look at some of Teuton TV's biggest draws, both in front of and behind the camera.(V PLUS)(Veronica Ferres, Thomas Gottschalk and Guenther Jauch)

  - 2006-09-18

  VERONICA FERRES Ferres, 41, has established herself as Germany's most successful TV actress, her name synonymous with top ratings. For example, telepic "Kein Himmel uber Afrika," on which she also has a producer credit, drew 8 million viewers...

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