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RTL Group is European mass media industry known for radio and TV production having its stations present all over Europe, operating the work with the help of programming and websites. The company has been headquartered in Kirchberg, Luxembourg and currently involved in the operations in the regions of Australia, N. America and Europe. The company has established a provision of providing 260 programs to an audience count of 250 million, making 53 TV channels and 28 radio-stations available within 40 countries.

The group was founded back in 1924, by the operation of only 1 radio station located in its head office area in Luxembourg. Talking about the key representatives of the company, comes the names of Thomas Rabe as the Chairman along with Anke Schaferkordt and Guillaume de Posch as the Co-CEO of the company employing a working strength of 11,931 number of employees as per the data available in the year of 2012.

The company shares are traded on the market of Euronext Brussels stock exchange with an overall revenue generation of 5.99 billion € as per the data of the year 2012. Around 75 % of the shares of the company are owned by Bertelsmann (a German media firm). The company is the international global player which leads in the production of content of 9100 hrs of Television programming annually in around 62 numbers of countries, flying more than 300 new program productions all over the world newly. RTL Group has produced numerable prime-time shows for big and well known broadcasting firms in almost all the markets on TV, holding the position of the biggest independently running management businesses. Social media, online platforms, mobiles, games, live performances and consumer products are included in the list of the platforms which are now operated under by the Licensing division.

The main products following of the company can be stated with the help of a cable an grown up into Broad casting, radio, content production and TV. In the field of TV, this name is counted among the top leaders when it comes to the soaps and gaming shows, especially via the ownership of FremantleMedia (including a London based firm), giving some of the examples like The Bill, Family Feud, The Price Is Right, Bad Times, Good Times and The X Factor.

The industry is well equipped with the strategy of following the responsibilities of an entertainment company for its audience, both according to its judgment and information sense. For offering of the entertaining services on the Internet, the company follows the marketing strategies of distribution of CD’s of the movie, coproduction of featured films and marketing broadcasting facilities to the sports events. Main operating areas in Luxembourg include Russia, India, Croatia, Hungary, Spain, Luxembourg¸ the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, with the presence of producing companies worldwide. The company is also a unified member of Hbb TV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV), and this discovery of a combination of RTL TV is known to be hub-TV service from the year back to 2010.