Launched April 28, 1995 Audience share 1,9% (2013, ) Founded April 28, 1995 | Picture format 4:3, 16:9 Country Germany | |
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Owned by RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership
(RTL Group (50%)
Buena Vista International Television Investments) Slogan Schön dich zu sehen (Nice to see you); Weil's Spaß macht (Because it's fun) TV shows LazyTown, Angelo Rules, Totally Spies!, WITCH, Sonic Underground | ||
Super rtl werbung 2006
Super RTL is a Cologne-based German television network operated by RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership. It was the first German television channel aimed mostly at children. RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership (RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG) is 50/50% joint venture between RTL Group's CLT-UFA and The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista International Television Investments.
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History
RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership was formed in 1995. Super RTL was launched on April 28, 1995.
On August 24, 1994 with Jeffrey Katzenberg's resignation a reorganization of Disney Company took place in which Richard Frank became head of newly formed Disney Television and Telecommunications (DTT), which included Walt Disney Television International, which held Disney's Super RTL stake. With the Disney-CC/ABC merger led to DTT being split up in April 1996, Walt Disney Television International was transferred to Capital Cities/ABC in April 1996. CC/ABC combined the international units, Walt Disney Television International and ACIBG, into Disney–ABC International Television (DAIT) in July 1996.
The Fun & Action Tour, a for children Germany-wide roadshow event, was started in 1997 with TV program characters. The tour was later renamed the Toggo Tour. The following year, the channel became the top view channel by the 3- to 13-year-old target age group.
In 1999, the joint venture saw its channel make a profit of net profit of DM 4.5 million, launched its website and started the Super RTL Licensing Agency to make more revenues from TV licensing. A new managing director, Claude Schmit, took charge of the venture in 2000.
Also in 2000, the preschool programming is labeled "Toggolino". Toggolino Club is started in 2002 and offers paid pre-school children education content.
The Toggo umbrella brand 2001 for all activities for 6- to 13-year-old children. In 2002, Sony BMG label, Berlin Records, released the first Toggo Music CD. SuperRTL began using the ‘Family Cartoon’ rating label in 2006 for family viewing suitable animated films shown on Friday and Saturday night.
In 2005, Super RTL was granted a broadcast license for the preschool pay-TV channel Toggolino TV by the government media regulators. Toggolino TV was never launched. Bertelsmann turned over the learning platform Scoyo to Super RTL in 2009.
With the announcement of Disney Channel (Germany) launching causing a loss of Disney programming, Super RTL signed volume deals in October 2013 with Warner Bros. International Television and Sony Pictures Television for a slate of animated features and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) for 1,200 hours of programming until 2020. The DWA deal included shows from the Classic Media library. The channel also acquired programming to expand its views in the evenings with more adult TV shows to debut in its fall 2014 schedule: ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, ABC's Once Upon a Time and Scandal and Syfy's Lost Girl supernatural series. As of January 1, 2014, Disney programming left the channel, because the broadcast version of Disney Channel (Germany) launched on January 17. However, Disney will continue holding its stake in the station.
RTL Disney TV LP launched its Kividoo subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services on April 28, 2015. In February 2016, RTL Disney Television LP received approval for a second channel from the anti-media concentration commission KEK. granted the 10 year license to the company. On March 15, TRL Disney TV announced that the second channel's name as "Toggo plus" after receiving the broadcast license from media authorities’ licensing and supervision commission ZAK. Toggo Plus was planned to launch on June 4, 2016.