n-tv is a
German televisionTelevision is an important cultural, social, political and economic part of the German media landscape. During its short existence, television broadcasting has evolved dramatically, both technologically and contentwise....
news channel owned by the RTL Group.
n-tv screens news bulletins on the hour and half hour; in between, it broadcasts informational programmes and advertising.
On March 18, 2004, it announced that a new digital broadcast centre will be housed in
CologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants...
. The political reports will, according to the announcement, come from
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
as before. Similarly,
stock marketA stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately....
updates will come from Frankfurt am Main (Germany's financial capital and home of the main share index, the
DAXThe DAX is a blue chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Prices are taken from the electronic Xetra trading system...
).
n-tv is a
German televisionTelevision is an important cultural, social, political and economic part of the German media landscape. During its short existence, television broadcasting has evolved dramatically, both technologically and contentwise....
news channel owned by the RTL Group.
n-tv screens news bulletins on the hour and half hour; in between, it broadcasts informational programmes and advertising.
On March 18, 2004, it announced that a new digital broadcast centre will be housed in
CologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants...
. The political reports will, according to the announcement, come from
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
as before. Similarly,
stock marketA stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately....
updates will come from Frankfurt am Main (Germany's financial capital and home of the main share index, the
DAXThe DAX is a blue chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Prices are taken from the electronic Xetra trading system...
). This was decided by the RTL and Time Warner companies at a meeting of the board of directors.
Origins/Launch
n-tv began as a business development project at Time-Warner International which, under the leadership of then chairman Steve Ross, was looking for ways to grow its businesses internationally. Time-Warner at the time was a major shareholder in Turner Broadcasting, parent company of CNN (both now subsidiaries of Time-Warner) and began looking for ways to get into the news channel business internationally. In 1991, under the direction of
Tom McGrathThomas B. McGrath though little known outside Hollywood, has been a leading, behind-the-scenes player in reshaping modern media throughout his entertainment career.- Early life and education :...
then the president of Time-Warner International Broadcasting, the company developed a strategy for Austria, Germany and the German speaking territories of Switzerland.
This in time led to the launch of the VIVA music TV channel,
VOXVOX is a German television channel, headquartered in Cologne and part of the RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. The channel officially launched at 5 p.m. on January 25, 1993...
network and several local TV stations. One of McGrath's pet projects was a German language 24-hour news channel. CNN International declined to partner with Time-Warner and eventually went ahead with their own channel. McGrath secured the last available transponder on the
Kopernikus satelliteDFS-Kopernikus meaning Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus) was the name of three geostationary satellite of Deutsche Bundespost and later Deutsche Telekom AG...
and secured several
terrestrial TVTerrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission or via underground cables—typically through the atmosphere from a transmitting antenna....
licenses for transmission of what would became n-tv. McGrath then recruited several German companies as partners including the Otto Group, APAX Partners and recruited Karl Kuhlo, an experienced German broadcaster as the
CEOA chief executive officer or chief executive is one of the highest-ranking corporate officers or administrators in charge of total management...
.
Although CNN declined to partner initially, when it became clear that n-tv was going to launch CNN joined as managing partner.
Wall Street coverage
In Germany, n-tv is the most important TV source for financial and stock market news. Several correspondents report live from the floor of the
New York Stock ExchangeThe New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar value of its listed companies' securities...
, the
NasdaqThe National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, known as NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. It is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States...
and the Nymex, including Jens Korte,
Lars HalterLars Halter is a German-American journalist and currently General Chairman of the German-American Steuben Parade....
and Markus Koch.
Partnered with CNN
CNN came as partner of n-tv since the launch in 1992. Today, the news ticker and DOG position is like CNN since 2009.
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