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Full trust in Günther Jauchand Peter Kloeppel

RTL superstar Mark Medlock continues on the road to successFrance

M6 Web launches jobexchange for students

W9 takes the leadSpain

RTL Group and Grupo PlanetaDe Agostini renewed their shareholder agreement Luxembourg

International awards forRTL Group's Annual Report

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Erland Galjaard appointed as Programme Director of RTL 4France

Bénédicte Tassart appointed deputy editor-in-chief and head of RTL's Economic and Social Department.

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Five increases service in a highlyfragmented marketFive is to launch ‘+1’ services for its two digital channels, Five Life and Five US,on satellite in early autumn this year. A ‘+1’ service is a repeat of a wholechannel, time-shifted by one hour.United Kingdom - 05.07.2007

Viewers will soon have two chances to watchFive Life and Five US programmes, which willbe re-broadcast an hour later on two seconda-ry digital special-interest channels.

Five is expanding its digital family of channelsto include a so-called '+1' service, a recentphenomenon in the highly fragmented TV mar-ket. Broadcasts of all the programmes shownby a channel will be shown again on seconda-ry channels one hour later, to give viewers theopportunity to watch the programmes whenthey want. This kind of arrangement is particu-larly attractive to working people, who oftendon't manage to get home in time to watchtheir favourite programmes.

Five CEO Jane Lighting explai-ned: "I'm delighted we can offerthese new services to our viewersless than a year after so success-fully launching Five US and FiveLife".

Talking to Backstage, MarkWhite, Executive Director Salessaid: "Basically we're looking towork our existing programmeinventory as hard as we can and'+1' channels have already pro-

ved to be an effective way of achieving that aimin the UK multi-channel market. Additionally,the capacity we've secured will allow each ofour +'1's to sit next to the core channel - webelieve that to be a massive commercialadvantage and a real addition to viewer choice.At the end of the day though, it's all about gro-wing audience which in turn will generate morerevenue to Five."

For a long time already, the British TV markethas been giving viewers a broader choice thanis available in any other European country, withmore than 400 digital channels on offer there.And even though the market shares of the Top

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15 digital special-interest channels may seemlow at first glance, at between 2.6 and 0.7 percent, it should be borne in mind that evenchannels 35 to 40 still attain market shares inexcess of 0.2 per cent. This shows just howfragmented the British TV market already is.

Digital TV has been a growth market in GreatBritain for a decade already. The latest study ondigital television conducted by British mediawatchdog Ofcom, entitled "Digital TelevisionProgress Report", shows that 80 per cent ofhouseholds in Great Britain already receivetheir TV broadcasts digitally. A majority of those80 per cent use digital terrestrial television,which has enjoyed a massive and very swiftrise in popularity over the past four yearsthanks to the success of the Freeview platform.In the popularity stakes, this mode of digitalreception is followed by digital satellite TV (40per cent) and digital cable TV (15 per cent).

In other European countries, like Germany andFrance, the numbers for DTT reception areconsiderably lower, at 25 per cent and 50 percent respectively. Competition inGreat Britain is tough, and mostdigital channels are dependenton advertising revenue. "It'sbecome an enormously com-plex, fragmented market. Thereare over 400 channels across thethree digital platforms - Satellite,Terrestrial and Cable. As a resultit's a constant battle for share ofviewer attention. Despite thisboth Five Life and Five US haveperformed strongly since launch.Over 28 million people havealready tuned-in and viewingshares are rising steadily. Thelaunch of these '+1' channels willonly add to their success" saysMark White.

With more than 28 million vie-wers, the digital channels FiveLife and Five US, launched inOctober 2006, have already clai-med a place amongst the Top 15non-terrestrial channels. Five Lifeand Five US are freely availablevia cable, satellite, DSL andFreeview.

Five US offers viewers the best American tele-vision, including blockbuster films, the CSIseries and also, since recently, Dr. House. FiveUS will also soon start exclusive broadcasts ofthe critically acclaimed series Dirt, featuringFriends star Courteney Cox.

Five Life is aimed at a young, female audience,offering a programme mix of drama, entertain-ment and documentaries. Its programmesinclude the popular Australian soap Home andAway and the documentary series Extraordi-nary People.

According to Five, the secondary channels FiveLife+1 and Five US+1 will initially only be avai-lable by satellite via the pay-TV platform SkyDigital, not yet in the DVB-T Freeview packageor over the cable network. Starting in August,the British Channel 4 will also be launching a'+1' service.

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“Superstar” MarkMedlock continues onthe road to successGerman Idol (Deutschland sucht den Superstar)winner Mark Medlock is topping the musiccharts in Germany. His second singleYou Can Get It shot from nowhere tonumber one this week.Germany - 11.07.2007

Dieter Bohlen protegé Mark Medlock is current-ly dominating the German charts. Not only ishis album Mr. Lonely still at number one, for thethird week running, but his new single You CanGet It rocketed to number one this week, the market research company Media Controlannounced on Tuesday.

The new single is already Medlock's secondnumber one. The first was his debut single NowOr Never.

W9 takes the leadAccording to the latest Médiamétrie ratingsstudy, W9, the digital channel belonging to Legroupe M6, is now the most popular of the newdigital channels.France - 12.07.2007

W9 Managing Director Frédéric de Vincelleswas delighted with this achievement: "It's a his-toric result. In prime time in particular, W9 hasgreatly improved in all areas: music, film, enter-tainment and sport“, he said.

In June, in the first ever monthly digitalMédiamétrie study, W9 achieved a market

share of 3.9 per cent, making it the leadingFrench DTT operator. Next came TMC, a chan-nel jointly run by TF1 and AB Group (3.6 percent), then the youth channel Gulli, run byLagadère and France Télévisions (3.3 percent). In the previous set of results publishedby Médiamétrie, the top slot was occupied byGulli.

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International awards forRTL Group's AnnualReport 2006RTL Group's latest annual report has garneredthree awards bestowed by international juries:two "Vision Awards" and one "Stevie".Luxembourg - 10.07.2007

At the "International Business Awards 2007",RTL Group won the award for Best AnnualReport. In business circles this award is betterknown as a "Stevie". In addition, the report wona gold "Vision Award" from the U.S. League ofAmerican Communications Professionals(LACP). The LACP gave RTL Group's annualreport 97 out of a possible 100 points, rankingit 32nd amongst the top 100 annual reports of2006. In the “Media and Communication" cate-gory, RTL Group - together with Bertelsmannand Cox - is just behind the advertising agencyWPP. In the special category of "Most EngagingAnnual Report", RTL Group also netted a bron-ze award. In all, more than 2,500 annual reportsfrom 21 countries were submitted to a profes-sional jury for scrutiny. The LACP's annualVision Award is one of the most important inter-national competitions for annual reports.

“This year we improved the structure of ourannual report and worked very hard on thestory-telling and visual presentation. This greatinternational recognition confirms just how suc-cessfully the team producing the annual reportand our agency Ringzwei did their jobs”, saidOliver Herrgesell, RTL Group's Head ofCorporate Communications and Marketing.

The jury in LACP's com-petition, whose mem-bers were PR expertsfrom leading U.S. com-panies, awarded RTL

Group's annual report maximum points in sixout of eight categories. The experts were bow-led over by the annual report's Creativity,Report Cover, Report Narrative, ReportFinancials, Message Clarity and InformationAccessibility.

In another competition, the "InternationalBusiness Awards 2007", a total of 98 compa-nies and corporate executives were honouredin 17 categories. Here, RTL Group won theaward for Best Annual Report in the category"Corporate Literature & Investor Relations".

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RTL Television to broad-cast the 2009 HandballWorld ChampionshipThe German national team's World Champion-ship victory early this year triggered off a waveof handball euphoria throughout the country.And now handball fever will continue there in2009, with RTL providing live coverage of allgames featuring the German team.Germany - 10.07.2007

RTL has secured the exclusive free-to-air TVrights for the Men's Handball World Champion-ship hosted by Croatia in 2009. It has also rea-ched an agreement with Sportfive regardingbroadcasts of all games involving the Germanteam, live coverage of the final, and also high-lights of other games not featuring the Germansquad.

RTL Sport Director Manfred Loppe said: "We're

delighted that RTL has succeeded in securingthe rights to a handball world championship inwhich Germany will be competing. Once again,our competence in sports coverage and thespecial staging of major sporting events haslanded us a great opportunity. Following ourbroadcasts of the Sunday football matchesplayed during the World Cup we will now beable to serve up another top sporting event toour viewers".

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The website is a simple, functional and efficienttool designed to help students find odd jobs,whether helping schoolkids with their studies,looking after children, helping out at home,doing basic do-it-yourself or helping out withhousehold chores.

Families can either place free ads or opt tosubscribe to a service that will enable them to

check out the students’ profile and onlycontact the most suitable applicants.

M6 is deeply involved in this domain anddid a lot of hard thinking before coming upwith what it feels to be the right response todemand for these home services.

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M6 Web launches jobexchange for studentsWith its new job exchange websiteAtonservice.fr, M6 aims to bring togetherstudents, who are seeking for occasional jobs,and families, who are looking forsomeone to help them at home.France - 10.07.2007


Full trust inGünther Jauch andPeter KloeppelRTL's stars did very well in a representativeopinion poll entitled "Who do you trust?".In fact, Günther Jauch and Peter Kloeppelclearly beat representatives of other media,including public-service broadcasters.Germany - 09.07.2007

Günther Jauch is the person whom Germanstrust the most. According to a survey conduc-ted by the Forsa polling institute on behalf ofthe weekly Bild am Sonntag, the presenter andshowmaster (who fronts Wer wird Millionär andStern TV) is trusted by 76.9% of the respon-dents. The second most trusted figure wasGermany's national football trainer JoachimLöw (scoring 70.3%). RTL editor-in-chief PeterKloeppel was trusted by 69.4% of the respon-dents, ranking him third, ahead of formerGerman President Richard von Weizsäcker(66.2%) and current President Horst Köhler(65.2%).

The two former anchors of ARD's newsmagazine Tagesthemen, Ulrich Wickertand Anne Will came twelfth and thir-teenth respectively, whereas ZDF starsMaybritt Illner and Johannes B. Kerneroccupied places 18 and 19.

Forsa CEO Manfred Güllner told Bildam Sonntag: "Clearly, people whoappear regularly on television, like RTLstars Günther Jauch and PeterKloeppel, command tremendousconfidence, quite irrespective of whatthey do or say“. Professor Güllner evencompared RTL's chief editor with aGerman journalistic legend, saying:"Kloeppel is well on the way to beco-ming something like a new HannsJoachim Friedrichs“.

Among young Germans (aged 14 to 29), PeterKloeppel scored a confidence rating of 80.1%,making him the number one for this age group,ahead of both Günther Jauch (77.6%) andJoachim Löw (73.4%). Women, too, trustKloeppel most of all (82%), then Günther Jauch(79%) again and Sweden's Queen Silvia, whowas born in Germany (68.8%).

The respondents were given a list of 125 promi-nent Germans from the world of politics, themedia, business, culture and sport, and askedto indicate whether they had very great, great,little or no confidence in them by making cros-ses in the appropriate place.

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Continuation of a greatcampaignPhase two of the Du bist Deutschland (You AreGermany) campaign will set out to make Germanya more child-friendly place. This was decided bymedia entrepreneurs in the presence ofChancellor Angela Merkel. RTL Group CEOGerhard Zeiler pledged support for the campaign.Germany - 09.07.2007

All the participants attending the high-levelmeeting held at Bertelsmann AG's Berlin head-quarters on Thursday last week agreed on thesuccess and impact of the first phase of thecampaign, which was launched just under twoyears ago.

Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, who initiatedthe original campaign, said: "With the Du bistDeutschland campaign, Germany's media ope-rators have successfully assumed their corpo-rate social responsibility. The campaign hasgenerated more and lasting self-confidenceand confidence in our country“.

Urged on by this success, last Thursday thecreative agencies originally involved in theproject, Jung von Matt,Kempertrautmann andFischer Appelt, wereassigned to continuedeveloping the conceptpresented to them. Allthe media operators atthe meeting alreadyagreed to take part inthis second phase. Inaddition, further part-ners will be sought inthe private sector.

Chancellor Merkel welcomed the campaign'scontinuation, saying: "It is in our common inte-rest to promote and support children andyoungsters and their families. Only in this waycan our country continue to rise successfully toany future challenges. If a campaign can helpto heighten people's awareness of this issueagain, I can only support it“.

Du bist Deutschland was the Federal Republicof Germany's biggest ever social marketingcampaign, to which the 25 media companiesinvolved contributed media space worth morethan EUR 32 million for free. The core elementof the campaign was a TV and cinema adverti-sement in which more than 40 VIPs and ordina-ry citizens read out a 'manifesto' for Germany.

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Gerhard Zeiler with Bernd Kundrun (left) and Nikolaus Brender


Beckham on and offthe field with FiveFive will follow David Beckham’s new high-profile career playing for LA Galaxy in theUnited States in a weekly magazine show.United Kingdom - 07.07.2007

Five will have exclusive access to theBeckhams and hear first-hand what the formerEngland captain thinks of his new life.

David Beckham’s Soccer USA will also be sho-wing live coverage of his matches from MajorLeague Soccer. The series starts on Tuesday,24 July at 7.15 P.M. and will follow the leaguewinner in both England and Spain withManchester United and Real Madrid and hisfamily as they adapt to a very different life in

North America both on and off the field. Fivewill kick off its coverage of Beckham in the USwhen he takes the field for the first time state-side as part of the MLS Allstars against GordonStracham's Celtic on Thursday, 19 July.

Beckham, who is joining from Spanish giantsReal Madrid halfway through the MLS season,will make his debut for LA Galaxy againstToronto live on Five at midnight on Sunday, 5August.

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RTL Group and GrupoPlaneta De Agostinihave renewed their sha-reholder agreementThe two leading shareholders of the Spanishcommercial broadcaster Antena 3 have rene-wed their agreement on the corporate gover-nance of the company.Spain - 09.07.2007

According to a filing sent to the Spanish stockmarket regulator CNMV, both parties agreed toextend the agreement “indefinitely”, althoughboth companies can terminate the agreementafter 30 June 2009 with a 180 days noticeperiod.

The pact stipulates a right of first refusal forboth shareholders in case either one of themdecides to sell its Antena 3 shares. Under theterms of the agreement, Grupo Planeta de

Agostini has four board seats and RTL Grouphas two. RTL Group CFO Elmar Heggen chairsthe Audit Committee and M6 CEO Nicolas deTavernost sits on both the ExecutiveCommittee and the Compensation Committee.

RTL Group holds a 19 per cent stake in Antena3. Grupo Planeta De Agostini is the company’sbiggest shareholder with a 43.5 per cent share-holding.

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RTL launches newtraining seriesFor several weeks, RTL news bulletins willcover reports on training and apprenticeships.Germany - 06.07.2007

Around 650,000 young people are looking for atraining placement in Germany this year and sofar only about half of them have been success-ful. RTL wants to help these young people.

The project aims to link up as many applicantsas possible with companies that still have trai-ning places available. Around 90 companiesacross Germany are already supporting the ini-tiative and have provided just under 850 trai-ning places for RTL's project. Trailers havebeen aired on the channel and the Internet(www.rtlaktuell.de) since the start of July.

The initiative will also coach young people onhow to target their applications and prepare forinterviews. RTL will also follow sixyoung people with a camera team asthey search for an apprenticeship.

All RTL news bulletins will report regularly onthe progress made by young people. TheRTLaktuell.de website has a special sectionwith extensive reports and background infor-mation. Interested young people can also use itto find out which apprenticeships are on offerand apply for specific positions.

RTL’s editor-in-chief Peter Kloeppel said: "Theobjective of this project is to successfully helpyoung people find a training placement. Wehope that as many companies as possible willget involved and offer additional training pla-ces. Our programmes will also cover a varietyof issues connected with training and offerpractical tips for job applications."

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Daniel Detambel

RTL coach Daniel Detambel will help six youngsters to find an apprenticeship.


Grundy Light Entertainment most success-ful producer during season 2006/2007 Each year German trade magazine Kress lists the Top 100 most regularly broadcas-ted TV shows. The most successful producer of television films for 2006/2007 wasUFA subsidiary Grundy Light Entertainment with four productions ranked in the Top100.Germany - 06.07.2007

The German Idols version Deutschland suchtden Superstar (DSDS) ranked second place,the DSDS show presenting the voting resultssixth and weekend repeats of DSDS came in atnumber 89. Gameshow Marathon (ProSieben)ranked number 72 and You can Dance (Sat.1)at 80.

Grundy UFA had three shows in the Top100 and was therefore ranked seventh inproducer ratings. In addition to the dailysoap Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten (num-ber 19) and prison drama Hinter Gittern(number 43), the new daily soap Alles waszählt came in at number 70. These fourshows are all broadcast by RTL.

UFA was also represented by Zuhause imGlück (number 90) which is produced by UFAEntertainment for RTL II.

This year's list is based on the period betweenSeptember 2006 and the start of June 2007.

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News on the mobile phoneRTL News can now be downloaded anywhere. RTL’s editor-in-chief Peter Kloeppeland his team offer a short, compact overview of all important events in videos thatlast for approximately one minute.Germany - 06.07.2007

News bulletins for mobile phones are updatedfour times a day. The service can be downloa-ded onto almost all phones, even those withoutUMTS. Users simply send a text messagecontaining the word 'news' to the abbreviatednumber 4949. The service costs 29 Cent plustext message and download charges payableto the network provider.

In return, users receive a link they can use todownload the news bulletin. The link is valid forone day, allowing customers to use it several

times a day and always have the latest versionof the video news bulletin on their mobilephone.

RTL News is also available on three other plat-forms. Visitors to the RTL news websiteRTLaktuell.de and the RTLnow.de Internet por-tal can watch news summaries free of charge.News bulletins are also available as video pod-cast. Users can download short news bulletinsin genuine TV quality from well-know portals,such as iTunes.


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More viewers are tuning in to M6's newsprogrammesThe latest editions of the magazines Enquête Exclusive and Capitalscored record ratings at the weekend.France - 10.07.2007

Fine cooking, English style – Nigella Lawsonexclusively on RTL LivingRTL has secured the broadcasting rights to several cookery program-mes featuring that voluptuous British cooking phenomenon, NigellaLawson, for its digital special-interest channel RTL Living.Germany - 11.07.2007

RTL.de and LeGuide.com team up fore-commerceRTL.de and LeGuide.com launch an e-commerce offensiveEurope's largest shopping portal and RTL.de are offeringshoppers new opportunities for the German market.Germany - 11.07.2007

Knock-out ratings for Klitschko victoryRTL Television’s live broadcast of world heavyweight championWladimir Klitschko’s title defense late Saturday evening waswatched by up to 11.86 million boxing fans.Germany - 09.07.2007


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Erland Galjaard hasbeen appointed asProgramme Director ofRTL 4The Netherlands – 10.07.2007

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Erland Galjaard, 40, has been working for RTLNederland since 1997. He started his career atRTL Nederland at RTL Nieuws. Previous toworking as Programme Director of RTL 5, hewas Programme Director of Yorin (today RTL 7)in 2002.

Bart in ’t Hout, General Manager Television ofRTL Nederland said: “Erland has already beensuccessfully working at RTL 5 and it was justabout time to entrust him with a major assi-gnment. I am convinced that he is the right manfor right position at the right time.”

People

Bénédicte Tassart has been appointeddeputy editor-in-chief and head of RTL'sEconomic and Social Department.France – 11.07.2007

Bénédicte Tassart has returned to RTL asdeputy editor-in-chief and head of RTL'sEconomic and Social Department. She will bebacked up in both capacities by Eric Vagnier,deputy editor-in-chief and deputy head ofRTL's Economic and Social Department.

Bénédicte Tassart is 41 years old and gradua-ted from the High College of Journalism in Lillein 1989. Since then she has devoted her careerexclusively to radio. Before coming back toRTL, she ran the Economic and SocialDepartment at France Info, a post she took upin 2001. Between 1990 and 1991, she enjoyed

a brief spell at RTL as a reporter and assistantto Jean-Jacques Bourdin, who presented the13.00 news. So it was a very natural step forher to come back to RTL again now.

At the same time, Jean-Marie Lefebvre hasbeen appointed editorial advisor to the newsmanagement team. Jean-Marie Lefebvre joinedRTL in 1992, serving first as chief editor of the18.00 news (1992-2002), then as head of RTL'sForeign Affairs Department (2003-2004) beforepresenting RTL's 07.00 to 08.00 weekend news(2004-2007).

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Knock-out ratings onRTL: Klitschko victorywatched by up to 11.86million viewersRTL Television’s live broadcast of world heavy-weight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s titledefense late Saturday evening was watched byup to 11.86 million boxing fans. Klitschko suc-cessfully defended his title, beating Americanboxer Lamon Brewster with a technicalknockout after six rounds.Germany - 09.07.2007

Viewership peaked at the end of the sixthround, immediately before the challenger’s trai-ner slapped Brewster’s towel on the canvasand the fight was called before the 7th roundcould start. The RTL broadcast averaged 11.21million viewers, for a total audience share of56.8 percent and a 53.7 percent share of theyounger demographic (14-49 years).

Vitali Klitschko’s comeback was announ-ced during the evening event. On 22September 2007, the Ukrainian will fighta warm-up bout against the Americanboxer Jameel Mc Cline. The comebackmatch will take place in Munich and willalso be broadcast on RTL.

RTL Sports Director Manfred Loppe said:“Saturday’s ratings showed once more howpopular Wladimir Klitschko is in Germany. Thename says it all, and we are proud to now have,in the person of Wladimir and now Vitali, thecrème de la crème of boxing in our program-ming as well.”

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