10 June 2010 week 23 Football fever TV, Radio, Games, SMS and Apps: The Football World Cup on RTL Group channels Germany United Kingdom Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland FremantleMedia extends app and broadcasts from Cologne-Deutz gaming portfolio France Greece M6 launches season 5 of Alpha reports best season ever L’amour est dans le pré week 23 the RTL Group intranet 10 June 2010 week 23 Cover: Montage with the world cup teams of RTL Nederland, RTL Radio France, RTL Television and RTL Radio Deutschland 2 Football fever TV, Radio, Games, SMS and Apps: The Football World Cup on RTL Group channels Germany United Kingdom Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland FremantleMedia extends app and broadcasts from Cologne-Deutz gaming portfolio France Greece M6 launches season 5 of Alpha reports best season ever L’amour est dans le pré week 23 the RTL Group intranet All abroad for the World Cup When the world turns its gaze on South Africa beginning 11 June, RTL Group channels will attract their audiences with various activities. Günther Jauch, Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klinsmann and Florian König (from left to right) Luxembourg - 10 June 2010 As in 2006, RTL Television will be airing live ports, analyses and summaries of the afternoon broadcasts from the Football World Cup for games, RTL Television will start its live broad- viewers in Germany. “After the 2006 Football cast of the match from the respective stadiums World Cup here at home, this summer we’ll be in South Africa: Florian König will report with part of the action again when the world’s biggest football expert Jürgen Klinsmann at his side. sport event draws fans under its spell,” says RTL Klinsmann played on the German national team Television CEO Anke Schäferkordt. The channel when it became World and European Champion, will exclusively broadcast a total of nine matches, and played a formative role in the 2006 summer six of them in the Preliminary Round, two Round of football as the coach of the German eleven of Sixteen games, and a Quarterfinals match. during the World Cup. Nazan Eckes will also be on location in South Africa during the World Cup. RTL Television is serving up an unbeatable The 33-year-old moderator will provide coverage ‘four-man back line’ consisting of Günther of the German national team’s camp and also Jauch, Jürgen Klopp, Florian König and Jürgen report on the host country and its people. Klinsmann for the World Cup. Germany’s most popular TV moderator Günther Jauch and Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp will present RTL Television’s big broadcasts while joining thousands of fans in celebrating major football parties. RTL Television’s two experts will board the ‘RTL World Cup Truck’ for a road show of sorts, which will take them to various German cities where big fan festivals are being hosted. “Unfortunately, travelling to South Africa is a relatively expensive option for fans,” says Manfred Loppe, Head of Sports at RTL This is how the ’RTL World Cup Truck’ stage will look like Television. “So we decided early on to present our World Cup broadcasts featuring Günther For the first time, all matches broadcast by RTL Jauch and Jürgen Klopp from the big fan festi- Television will also be available as live streams vals in Germany.” The preliminary-round World on RTL.de and on Sport.de. The big World Cup Cup evenings on RTL Television will begin at specials on the channel’s home page and the 19:00, when RTL Aktuell sport moderator Ulrike sport portal will also feature numerous videos von der Groeben presents the sports block of the produced by the RTL teams in South Africa, in channel’s main news show from the World Cup addition to news, game reviews, interviews and Truck. Following the countdown, preliminary re- analyses. 3 week 23 the RTL Group intranet At the beginning of June, the Football World radio stations - Antenne Bayern, Hit Radio FFH, Cup moved to the forefront for the 8.2 mil- Radio NRW, Antenne Thüringen, 104.6 RTL and lion registered Wer-kennt-wen.de members, 105’5 Spreeradio – already form a winning team: too. They can now predict the results of the regardless of whether listeners are still at the of- matches in a game developed specially for the fice or construction site or on their way home, platform. The World Cup predictions game lets they can listen to matches and breaking infor- the community’s 8.2 million members pit their mation live from South Africa. The radio stations football knowledge against each other by pre- are sending reporters, editors and technicians dicting match outcomes: 4.8 million predictions to South Africa to report live from the stadiums, have already been submitted and hundreds of the German team’s camp, the press confer- thousands more are being received each day. ences and about the country and its people. Every user can also take part in up to five other ‘prediction rounds’ – for free of course – in order Stephan Schmitter, Managing Director of the to match their wits with colleagues, friends or Radio Center Berlin, says: “Germany’s football relatives they are linked to on fans and us radio people are hoping for a sequel Wer-kennt-wen.de. to the incredible emotional ‘fairytale summer’ of 2006. The Fifa Football World Cup in South Af- Also, the morning news shows Punkt 6 and rica offers us ideal conditions. With the sound of Punkt 9, the midday journal Punkt 12, the main vuvuzela stadium horns as a fitting backdrop, we news RTL Aktuell and the RTL Nachtjournal can already promise our listeners an absolutely will feature extensive coverage of the biggest riveting experience.” TV event of the year by their own reporters and experts. N-TV will also provide 24/7 informa- The two Berlin radio stations also have an ex- tion about the World Cup. Besides broadcast- tensive supporting programme planned for the ing all DFB press conferences live, the news World Cup. 104.6 RTL will broadcast all Ger- channel’s World Cup programming also includes man matches, and will also air various comedy the detailed Fußball-Frühstück (Football Break- formats such as Klinsi or football surveys with fast) each morning. tongue-in-cheek questions such as “What do you think about the fact that some players have now tested negative for doping?”, as well as hosting a big ‘Mile of Fans’ at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and along Straße des 17. Juni Boulevard. An hourly prize giveaway gives listeners a chance to travel to the country of the reigning football world champion: Italy. Marc Uhlmann (left) and Gerhard Willmann And the Football World Cup will be the number-one topic outside the TV realm as well. Germany’s commercial radio stations have pre- pared well for the sport event, and have once The ‘Mele of Fans’ in Berlin again joined forces to broadcast all 64 matches of the Fifa Football World Cup 2010 in South 105’5 Spreeradio will broadcast all German Africa live, as official licensed radio stations for matches. The station’s Spreeradio World Cup the event. Street brings public viewing home to listeners – the office, the club or wherever a number of More than half of the encounters will be played people are gathered in the name of football. around lunchtime and in the afternoons (13:30 Every day, listeners can win a World Cup Party, and 16:00) German time, so the commercial with a big screen, drinks, food and BBQ to make 4 week 23 the RTL Group intranet the day’s top game an unforgettable experience. Little listeners also receive their due: 105’5 Spreeradio is a partner to the Family Public Viewing in Spandau, which has been organised child-friendy. Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Linda De Mol and Willem van Hagenem in the Ik Hou Van Oranje RTL Nederland has come up with an extensive supporting programme for the Football World Cup. Although its channels won’t be showing the matches live, RTL 7 – the men’s channel – will devote a twice-a-day special edition of Voetbal International called VI Oranje to the event. Wil- fred Genee, Johan Derksen and Rene van der Gijp form the core VI Oranje team, and will be joined each day by celebrity guests. Together, Pierre Ménès, Bixente Lizarazu and Eugène Sacomano they will bring the atmosphere, wit and most incisive analyses of football to Dutch living In France, RTL Radio is wearing two of the most rooms. prestigious hats: as France’s number one radio station it is both the official radio broadcaster of In the early edition, the team analyses the the Fifa 2010 World Cup in South Africa as well afternoon games and gives an outlook on as the official radio station for the French football the evening’s matches. In the late edition, team. the matches will be discussed and analysed at length. RTL 7’s Programme Director Peter In these capacities, RTL Radio will ensure that Lubbers looks forward to the event: “The Foot- every World Cup match and follow-up will be ball World Cup is the world’s biggest football broadcast in their entirety. To bring listeners party. As a men’s channel we obviously have to closer to the game, the sports department will play a role. Together with Eyeworks Sport, we have a team on location that includes 1998 world will produce two shows a day to give Dutch TV champion Bixente Lizarazu and RTL’s Head of viewers plenty of atmosphere, football, humour Sport Christian Olivier. Being the radio station and top-notch analysis.” VI Oranje will air at of “Les Bleus”, RTL will enjoy privileged access 17:50 and 22:15 on RTL 7 starting 10 June.