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Off to new heights Record ratings; record earnings; digitisation and diversification developing fast – Bert Habets explains how RTL Nederland can keep its impressive pace
Germany Germany RTL Television presents X Factor is back Commit Awards on Vox
Luxembourg Luxembourg RTL Group companies Télévie supports receive several awards in June cancerology research the RTL Group intranet week 26
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Cover: Bert Habets, CEO of RTL Nederland.
Off to new heights Record ratings; record earnings; digitisation and diversification 2 developing fast – Bert Habets explains how RTL Nederland can keep its impressive pace
Germany Germany RTL Television presents X Factor is back Commit Awards on Vox
Luxembourg Luxembourg RTL Group companies Télévie supports receive several awards in June cancerology research the RTL Group intranet week 26
Coffee dispenser moments Bert Habets explains how RTL Nederland has developed from a single TV channel into an all-round media and entertainment company and will not rest on its laurels. Bert Habets has been CEO of RTL Nederland since January 2008 The Netherlands - 30 June 2011
Can you tell us something about RTL In our digital business we have made some Nederland’s performance during the first few headway over the past year. With the acquisition months of 2011? of the real time weather information platform In terms of audience shares, our TV channels Buienradar and with strong organic growth enjoyed a great season. Sharpening our channel we are now among the top five players in the profiles and our consistent programming strategy DutchREVENUE digital market. RTL Nederland also have paid off. TV is a in million € had a strong first few cyclical business: we “We increased our advertising months.436 From January429 to were hit by the crisis first 408 May, the number of prices by around358 10 per 371 and now we’re the first to 350 unique visitors increased recover. cent in the first half of 2011, from 8.5 million to 17.5 and we will probably do million, largely thanks to With the acquisition so in the second half”. Buienradar. We also saw of Slam FM we have Bert Habets a big increase in video strengthened our radio views from 23.6 million business. The latest audience figures confirmed in May 2010 to 38.6 million video views in May that Radio 538 is the leading Dutch radio station 2011. That is an increase by 64 per cent. once more with more than 3.8 million viewers. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 And young listeners come back to the station.
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What developments do you expect over the Although much has changed, one thing remains next few months? unchanged up: our craft. That is our true strength. We cannot rest on our laurels. Next year will be Over the years, RTL Nederland has developed tough one for TV with the European Football from a single TV channel into an all-round media Championship and the Olympics coming up. We and entertainment company that informs and need to stay focused. In terms of advertising, entertains with dedication and emotion and we increased our prices by around 10 per cent that is our craft and core competence. We are in the first half of 2011, the leader in radio and and we will probably do “Radio, television and digital television, and since so in the second half. I are stronger than ever. this year, among the top don’t think the second Recently, we added two five players in the Dutch half of 2011 will grow digital media market. as strong as it did in the new pillars: Entertainment This means: our three first months, as some and Ventures – two more core businesses radio, big advertisers have ways to increase costumer television and digital difficulties to maintain involvement”. are stronger than their margins, but in Bert Habets ever. And recently, we terms of audiences we added two new pillars: expect continued strong performance for this Entertainment and Ventures – two more ways to year. increase costumer involvement.
How is digitisation changing your business? Could you tell us more about how you are Consumers are more than ever in the driver’s increasing involvement with your clients and seat, mainly fuelled by the digital evolution and consumers? all the technological developments that stem We are extending our programmes off screen – from it. This creates many new possibilities and prior to the broadcast as well as afterwards. We that in turn has a major impact on our industry. like to call it ‘the total experience’. That’s what Digitisation and broadband penetration is high we did with the X Factor for example, when we in the Netherlands, leading to rapidly changing organized the X Factor Experience in June, a consumer behaviour in traditional media usage. special concert where fans could directly get in All these changes mean that we as a media touch with the X Factor candidates they know company must constantly move in and adapt from TV. Additionally, we also invite advertisers to the consumers behaviour. At RTL Nederland to connect to our brand – that’s what we did we don’t see that as a threat, but as the way to with Pepsi and X Factor. In a creative approach numerous new business opportunities. they form part of the show, from the promotion
Following the success of their movie, the four ‚Gooische Vrouwen‘ – Tjitske Reidinga, Linda de Mol, Lies Visschedijk and Susan Visser (from left to right) – got their star on the RTL Walk of Fame in Hilversum
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campaign to the website and in the long tail to concerts and merchandising activities. When we hosted the X Factor Experience in June, we had one show that was open to the public and another one where Pepsi gave away tickets. The impact among viewers is much higher this way than with usual advertising spots, which adds a lot of value for the advertisers.
The concert was also a perfect example of what RTL Entertainment does. With RTL Entertainment we actively took the step to the Sizz campaign, targeting female mobile phone users stages of theatres and concert halls. It aims to create events where consumers can enjoy our Do you extend formats to the second screen brands not only on air, but beyond the TV screen. as well? The acquisition of Wentink Events was therefore Yes, that is a crucial element to our ‘total an important step. At Studio 21 we have a stage experience’ approach. Today we watch TV on where we can develop many new initiatives and three different screens: a small, a medium and a offer new experiences to our consumers. This large one. Interactivity used to take place through year we also invested in theatrical productions simple text messages or call in. Today, viewers like the Gooische Vrouwen movie which became can also use My Space, Facebook and of course the number four Box Office hit ever in The Twitter. This allows for new ways of interactivity Netherlands after blockbuster movies like Avator and thus a more intense experience for our and Titanic. Currently in production are Body viewers. Users can talk, chat and exchange their Language, a dancing film featuring the winner of views directly through different new media and our dancing competition So You Think You Can thus create a ‘coffee dispenser moment’ – with Dance and Ushi de film, a mixture of Mister Bean the slight difference that it now happens real and Borat with our popular presenter and actress time. These media are increasingly integrated in Wendy van Dijk. From this angle expanding into our conceptual development of program ideas. film is a logic next step in bringing TV brands and Take for example the ‘Heartbeat’ feature at the characters to the white screen. X Factor, where users could follow the heartbeat of contestants during the show. It was used and shared by some 50,000 users, creating a real buzz.
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I see three major advantages in this ‘total expertise, network and marketing power. Besides experience’ approach. First: We intensify the our mobile telephony offer Sizz and the dating viewing experience and our interaction with platform Pepper, we operate Couverts, a real- the consumers. Second, we extend the life time restaurant reservation tool for restaurant cycle of our programmes: the story runs longer owners – something you would not necessarily or is promoted on other media and thus the expect at a media company. But there is a relationship with the logic fit: based on our consumer is maintened “Every strategy depends cooking programmes over a longer period of and our network in the time. And third, we are entirely on the people filling culinary sector, we had drawing the attention of it with life: our employees” good reason to buy it young audiences who Bert Habets from its young founders. are returning to watch TV, It was a small company combined with second and third screen which with a good product, designed by passionate enrich the user experience. In the coming years entrepreneurs. We saw potential for development we will develop this new way of consuming and thought: ‘Let’s turns this into a market TV in a converged media landscape. We will leader’. Our ultimate goal is that consumers use also cooperate with other parties, media and the application of Couverts for their restaurant consumers. reservations instead of picking up the phone. The consumer portal will be fully funded by fees What role does RTL Ventures play? that are paid by the restaurant owners who use We launched RTL Ventures in December 2010 this service – no advertising. By the end of the as a new division, for developing new concepts year, Couverts will be market leader in its field. for consumer markets that are relevant to RTL Nederland and where we can leverage our
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What does the addition of RTL Entertainment However, every strategy depends entirely on the and RTL Ventures mean for your overall people filling it with life: our employees. Their strategy? professionalism, creativity and enthusiasm are In the past, we had our three pillar strategy: what make the success of this company. We strengthen our core business, extend our family invest heavily in our business and will continue of channels and invest in diversification. With to do so, but equally important is to invest in RTL Entertainment and RTL Ventures, we have our employees. Last week, our HR department extended this strategy to five pillars. Our goal started discussing the company’s plans in is to be the most complete all-round media and detail with the employees. Besides focusing on entertainment company in the Netherlands. development and training, it is also important to We will continue to invest, including into new continue to listen to each other and learn from consumer markets in which we were not active. each other. I really believe that media companies But we will only invest in new markets if we that are able to excel in this field have a bright can use our promotion power combined with future in the rapidly changing media landscape. our expertise and if there is a logic fit with the product. Therefore it is more than just a financial investment.
RTL Nederland is flying high
In 2010, RTL Nederland recorded its best audience shares since 1999 . The family of channels attracted an average 33.0 per cent of the 20- to 49-year-old viewer market. In May 2011, RTL Nederland’s family of channels further increased to 34.9 per cent. Despite having increased prices for advertising by around 10 per cent during the first few months of the year, RTL Nederland is fully benefitting from the growth of the Dutch market. Currently, all advertising space (12 minutes per hour) on RTL Nederland’s channels is sold out in terms of gross rating points (GRP).
RTL Nederland recently further strengthened its family of radio stations by acquiring the radio station Slam FM.
In terms of digital business, RTL Venture launched the new Dating portal Pepper.nl, which features a new approach to online dating, and Sizz, a mobile telephony offer in co-operation with Vodafone, aiming at female consumers. In 2010, the company also acquired Couverts. nl, an online real-time restaurant reservation portal, turning it into the market leader. With the establishment of RTL Entertainment and the acquisition of Wentink Events, RTL Nederland further enhanced its position in the live entertainment market, organizing tours and concerts.
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4th Commit Awards presented RTL Television presented this year’s “Commit Awards for Integration” in Berlin. Besnik Salihi from Wolfenbüttel won the media award in the student category, which was presented for the fourth time this year. Germany - 28 June 2011
In front: Nazan Eckes, Besnik Salihi, Peter Kloeppel, Maria Boehmer and Nina Moghaddam (from left to right) In the back: Veronica Frenzel, Sabina Karasin and Scharlotte Radziwill
The 19-year-old beat the seven other candidates State Minister Professor Maria Böhmer, the who had made the final selection with his short German government’s delegate for migration, film Mein Traum (My Dream). Besnik’s film was refugees and integration, also attended the about an unusual project he initiated as part ceremony. She has been patron of the Commit of his technical college entrance qualification Awards since 2008. “I am thrilled by the while he was an intern at the “Jugend, Soziales, overwhelming response to the RTL Commit Sport e.V.” (Youth, Social, Sports Association) Awards,” she said. “This shows once again voluntary agency in Wolfenbüttel: together with that integration is the number one issue of the street dance friends Besnik, originally from future among young people. We all benefit Kosovo, taught a group of elderly ladies his most when everyone, regardless of their background, popular breakdance moves. The student awards is committed to a good working relationship. were presented by Peter Kloeppel, Editor-in- Integration lives by participation.” Chief of RTL Television, and presenters Nazan Eckes (RTL Television) and Nina Moghaddam RTL Television has presented the Commit Awards (Super RTL), who formed the celebrity jury annually since 2008. It is aimed at encouraging alongside German national football team star students across Germany to take a filmic Cacau and the singer Adel Tawil. approach to the subject of integration. This year 120 storyboards were received – more than ever Kloeppel then presented the first Commit Award before. Following a preliminary selection process for Young Journalists to Veronica Frenzel, the best eight were instructed in the basics of Sabina Karasin and Charlotte Radziwill from TV journalism at an RTL Television weekend the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. workshop at the RTL Journalistenschule in May. Their documentary short film Das bayerische The young filmmakers then turned their concepts Lampedusa – Schöllnstein in Niederbayern into finished films with the help and support of investigated why integration cannot work in the professionals at RTL Television. Lower Bavarian town of Schöllnstein where 70 local residents live alongside 90 asylum seekers. All eight finalists’ student entries and the young There is no meaningful contact between the two journalists’ top three short films may be viewed groups, nor is it encouraged by politicians, as the at www.rtlcommit.de. refugees’ residence status has not been verified – an unsatisfactory situation for both sides. 8 the RTL Group intranet week 26
Great TV moments X Factor is back on Vox from 30 August 2011. The channel revealed details of the second season at a press conference. Germany - 27 June 2011
“We achieved everything we set out to do with and “duets/groups” – assigned to the jurors so the first season ofX Factor,” said Vox Managing that the battle between the three competing Director Frank Hoffmann at a press conference music professionals can begin. In phase three, at the port of Hamburg’s former main customs which takes place at the juror houses, Sarah office. “And even a little bit more: we were Connor, Till Brönner and Das Bo – supported nominated for a German Television Award by celebrity advisors – will help their charges and received a Bavarian Television Award, hone their voice, style and performance prior convincing critics and viewers alike. Now we can to the big live shows. Here, the jurors will have look forward to a second season with great TV to work alone with their assigned category and moments.” ultimately decide which acts make it to the fourth and all-important phase: the live shows. A total This year’s X Factor jury is reinforced with the of 12 acts will appear in the first live show. From beat, bass and gut instinct of Hamburg rapper that point on, everything is in the hands of the Das Bo – also known as “Beau” by the team – audience: they vote by telephone or via the alongside Sarah Connor and Till Brönner. With X-Factor I-Phone app for their favourite act. The his direct style, the former member of the German two artists who receive the least votes compete cult band Fünf Sterne Deluxe goes into battle this again with a song of their choice. The decision season with his veteran colleagues on the jury, of which of the two progresses to the next round who have the advantage of experience from the is made by the three-member jury. In the finals, first season. Das Bo says: “The format excites unlike the first season, there are now not just two me because as jurors we have the opportunity to but three acts. The final big decision then lies teach the artists something and prepare them for solely with the audience. the big live shows. I will give everything to help my assigned category win. Because only one Which of this year’s contestants will be able to person’s going to win here with North German prove that they have the X Factor? And who will charm – and that’s me.” emerge as the lucky winner at the end of the music talent show this year to win a recording Vox Editor-in-Chief Kai Sturm: “X Factor is a contract with Sony Music? “The auditions are winner: This is clear not only from last season’s now over – that means we’ve already found the ratings, but also in the record 25,131 people who winner of X Factor this year,” laughs Jochen auditioned from all over Germany on the big X Schropp in an interview with Backstage. “One Factor stage in front of an audience of over 650.” of those who are now in the process will be Thanks to this onslaught, this year there will be standing on stage as the winner eventually. It’s more audition episodes in the schedule than last is a nice thought.” year, says Sturm.
Phase one, which features the most exciting, beautiful and moving performances from the auditions, is followed by the second phase: the Super Boot Camp. In contrast to last year, the jury will jointly decides which contestants go through to the next round and who has to leave the Super Boot Camp early. Only after this phase are the three categories – “16 to 24-year olds”, “over 25s”
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New online format After Gooische Frieten, the second series specifically produced for the web launched on RTLXL.nl: De Zomer Van Britt en Ymke. Britt (right) and Ymke Netherlands - 24 June 2011
The impulsive Britt and the intellectual Ymke are familiar to audiences throughout Holland from the RTL 5 programmes Take me Out and Echte Meisjes in the Jungle. Now RTLXL.nl serves up all-new adventures featuring the two totally different girls in De Zomer Van Britt en Ymke. For ten weeks, viewers of RTL Nederland’s video-on-demand platform will be able to follow the experiences of the two women on a daily basis.
This summer Britt and Ymke visit various festivals and parties accompanied by well-known Dutch personalities and discuss and evaluate them in their own charming way. From ‘herring parties’ to ‘bunny nights’ and tennis tournaments to folk festivals, the duo will go wherever the action is.
De Zomer Van Britt en Ymke is the second format produced specifically for the web on RTLXL.nl, after the comedy series Gooische Frieten. RTL Nederland’s complete digital programme is viewable on RTLXL.nl: TV shows, movies, series, promo spots, videos and backstage material are clearly presented and easily accessible.
In the first six days, the new format recorded already more than 140,000 video views. RTLXL. nl shows a new episode of De Zomer Van Britt en Ymke weekdays at 16:00.
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Seven research programmes in Luxembourg Télévie, a great surge of generosity that rose up in 1989 in Belgium and in 1991 in Luxembourg, raised more than € 8 million in its 2011 edition. The Télévie Committee has just decided which research programmes this sum will finance. The Télévie logo Croatia - 22 June 2011
From May 2010 to May 2011, thousands of In addition, Marc Diederich of the Fondation people, including TV presenters, artists and Recherche sur le Cancer et les Maladies du simple, anonymous volunteers, lent their support Sang (research foundation on cancer and blood to Télévie. The time and effort they invested diseases) at Hôpital Kirchberg will try, in one helped raise the record sum of € 8,212,537.34, of his three research programmes, to establish the entirety of which will be handed over to a strategy for preserving the fertility of women the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS- undergoing cancer treatment. Guy Berchem, FNRS) to finance the battle against cancer and head of the hemato-cancerology experimental leukaemia. lab of the CHL is also involved in three projects, one of which is in collaboration with his colleague The administrative council of the FRS-FNRS at the CHL, Eric van Dyck. They will study the has just confirmed the cancerology research impact of chemotherapy drugs that act on DNA programmes previously retained by the Télévie and the damage they may cause. Commission. In Luxembourg, seven projects in a number of scientific disciplines have been granted funds and will be entirely financed by the FRS-FNRS.
This research, which aims to combat leukaemia in adults and children, will be mainly led by doctors Marc Diederich and Guy Berchem in cooperation with multidisciplinary scientific teams attached to the Centre Hospitalier du Luxembourg (CHL), Université du Luxembourg (UdL), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Laboratoire National de Santé au Luxembourg (LNS).
In the weeks to come, the nine researchers concerned will especially concentrate on two variants of leukaemia, notably chronic myeloid leukaemia and chronic lymphoid leukaemia. The first is the more rare variant while the second is more frequent, with 15 to 20 per cent of affected people suffering from this variant. In these programmes the accent will be, among other things, on the development of new therapies and medications.
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Awards in June In June, too, numerous RTL Group companies won a number of prestigious prizes, including FremantleMedia for American Idol, Teamworx for Danni Lowinski and M6 for Le Petit Nicolas. The jury of Die grössten Schweizer Talente: DJ Bobo, Christa Rigozzi and Roman Kilschsperger (from left to right) Luxembourg - 30 June 2011
At this year’s ‘Critics Choice Awards’ American Cameraman Benedict Neuenfels won the Idol, which is produced by FremantleMedia ‘German Camera Award’ for his work on the North America, won ‘Best Reality Competition’. Teamworx production, Homevideo. The film The awards were presented on 20 June at the explores the sweeping ‘medialisation’ of the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. various areas of our life and shows what drastic consequences this can have for teenagers. FremantleMedia won a coveted Rocky for ‘Best Online Programme – Entertainment’ at the Banff At the ‘Salon Buzzness Mobile’ in June, M6 Film Festival’s ‘Interactive Rockies’ for its social Web took home two ‘Mobile Awards 2011’: the media cooking community, Sorted. The platform M6 app for I-Phone and I-Pad won an award is targeted at 18- to 30-year-olds and combines in the ‘Site – Application Medis / Editeurs pour cooking instruction videos with fan comments, Smartphones’ category; the other award went to resulting in a cooking show that goes well the X Factor app for I-Pad and I-Phone in the beyond the regular TV screen. ‘Campagne Globale sur le Mobile’ category. With the latter, M6 had first extended a TV format to Actress Annette Frier won the prestigious ‘Golden the ‘second screen’ for viewers, Internet and Nymph’ for ‘Best Actress in a Comedy Series’ at smartphone users. the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo, for playing Danni Lowinski in the eponymous series, On 30 June, Antena 3 will receive the ‘Quality which is produced by Phoenix Film. Award’ from the Spanish Academy for Television, Science and Art. The academy’s award honours At the 35th International Film Festival in Annecy, the “colourful variety of family entertainment” on an episode of the animated series Le Petit Antena 3 and the inclusion of “Spanish fiction Nicolas won the ‘Prix spécial pour une série’ and innovations” in its programming. (Special prize for a series). The series was produced by M6 Studio and Method Animation. On the evening of 7 June, Liv Lisa Fries became The award honours Groupe M6’s efforts to the recipient of Studio Hamburg’s prestigious advance French animated film production and ‘Günther Strack Fernsehpreis’ for her role in the country’s cultural legacy. the Teamworx production Sie hat es verdient. The judges picked Fries as the best newcomer The 3rd ‘Swiss TV Award’ sponsored by Tele and actress, praising her “complex character TV Star magazines was presented on Friday 24 portrayal and convincing emotionality”. June in Zurich. The readers of Tele, TV Star and Blick picked the Grundy Switzerland-produced Till Brönner, a judge on the X Factor jury on Vox, show Die grössten Schweizer Talente, which won the ‘Echo Jazz 2011’ Audience Award in the clearly outscored the two other nominees, Kampf category ‘Bestseller of the Year’ for his album der Chöre and Alpenrose. Andrea Jansen and At The End Of The Day. This is Brönner’s fifth Sven Epiney, the show’s presenters, accepted Echo. The ‘Echo Jazz’ was presented by the the prize on stage. Deutsche Phono-Akademie for the second time, to honour outstanding and popular achievements by national and international jazz artists.
12 Matthew wins X Factor 2011 After weeks of auditions and live shows, the winner of ‘X Factor’ 2011 in France is Matthew Raymond-Barker (left), who already participated in the UK version of the show, but failed to make it past the first round of boot camp. He beat out the other finalist, 17-year-old high school student Marina D’Amico (right) by a mere 1,300 votes. the RTL Group intranet week 26
Monty Python’s legacy Shooting begins this month on the new comedy drama Holy Flying Circus, the first production to come out of Hillbilly Television, a joint venture between BBC Four and Talkback Thames. United Kingdom - 24 June 2011
Play Hole In The Wall at home Ludia and FremantleMedia Enterprises are bringing Hole In The Wall to Xbox Kinect. United Kingdom - 24 June 2011
A summer made for jazz From 26 June until 21 August 2011, the Festival du Jazz comes to RTL Radio with a host of renowned artists. France - 27 June 2011
The summer fairy tale continues The women’s football World Cup kicked off in Germany on 26 June – the leading commercial radio stations and N-TV are there to cover it. Germany - 27 June 2011
US blockbusters on Antena 3 Antena 3 and NBC Universal have signed a new contract that gives the Spanish channel the exclusive broadcast rights to NBC Universal’s latest productions. Spain - 28 June 2011
Sunday nights are for news The newsmagazine shows Zone Interdite and Enquête Exclusive broadcast on Sunday evenings on M6 continue to attract a lot of viewers, achieving record audiences on 26 June 2011. France - 28 June 2011
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A new partnership FremantleMedia Enterprises and Condé Nast plan to use their collaboration to introduce their brands on new platforms. North America - 29 June 2011
Filming begins on München 72 Teamworx and ZDF are making a fictional TV film about the hostage drama at the Olympic Games 1972. For the first time, it tells the story from the German perspective while also considering the perspective of the survivors of the killed Israeli hostages. Germany - 29 June 2011
New breathtaking crime series The cast of Moordvrouw, RTL 4’s brand new crime series was presented on 24 June and filming will start in August 2011. Luxembourg - 30 June 2011
The Tour de France on RTL Lëtzebuerg The 2011 edition of the Tour de France begins on 2 July and, this year again, RTL Lëtzebuerg is the official broadcaster in Luxembourg. Starting on 30 June, a vast programme awaits cycling sport fans. The Netherlands - 30 June 2011
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People Nicolas Demorand Nicolas Demorand France - 28 June 2011
Nicolas Demorand, editorial director of the daily newspaper Libération joins RTL Radio at the end of summer as a political editorialist.
In the context of France’s 2012 campaign for the French Presidency, RTL is enriching its team of political editorialists by hiring Nicolas Demorand who will start at the end of summer. He will notably contribute to the debates each Tuesday at 8:30, where Jean-Michel Aphatie, Alain Duhamel, Serge July, Eric Zemmour and Géraldine Muhlmann already confront one another with their points of view. The editorial director of Libération will also join the team of polemists on the programme On Refait Le Monde, led by Christophe Hondelatte and airing every evening from 19:15 to 20:00.
The 40 year-old Nicolas Demorand already has a vast amount of experience in radio. He started his career in 1997, working for France Culture. Following that he was the morning news presenter on France Inter (2006 to 2010) and then the evening news presenter on Europe 1 (2010). On television, he was a co-presenter in the 18:00 to 20:00 time slot on the news channel I>Télé (2008 to 2009) and a presenter on the political discussion show C politique on France 5 (2009 to 11).
Since the beginning of 2011, Nicolas Demorand has been the CEO and editorial director of Libération.
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People Karsten Bartholin Denmark - 30 June 2011
Karsten Bartholin has been named the new Head of Development at Blu A/S, FremantleMedia’s Danish production arm, with effect from 1 August 2011. Karsten Bartholin Karsten Bartholin has vast experience in format development, having co-founded Babyfood, the company behind formats such as Gay Army, Bingo Banko and Big In Japan.
Kim Ardal, Managing Director, Blu A/S says: “Karsten is one of the biggest talents of his generation. His ability to create exceptional entertainment and reality formats will be instrumental to Blu’s strategic and creative direction and will ensure that the company maintains its position as the leading producer of in-house developed formats in Denmark. I am confident that Karsten will take up this challenge and am very pleased to welcome him to Blu.”
Bartholin added: “I am looking forward to taking on the exciting role of Head of Development at Blu. It is any format creator’s dream to be working for such a strong production company, and Blu’s brand has always been about creativity, innovation and collaboration. I look forward to building on that tradition in Denmark and to joining the FremantleMedia family.”
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