n-tv
Launched	November 30, 1992 (1992-11-30)
Network	Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland
Owned by	RTL Group
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Audience share	1.1% (October 2017 (2017-10), KEK)
Slogan	Wir bleiben dran
Country	Germany
Language	German
Broadcast area	Germany Austria Switzerland
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Website	n-tv.de
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (Germany)	Channel slots vary on each State
Satellite
Astra 1L (Europe, North Africa)	12188 H / 27500 / 3/4 (SD / FTA)
Astra 1KR (Europe, North Africa)	10832 H / 22000 / 2/3 (HD / encrypted)
Cable
Kabel Deutschland	Channel 551 (SD) / Channel 576 (HD)
Unitymedia	Channel 311 (SD) / Channel 94 (HD)
NetCologne	Channel 51 (SD) / Channel 151 (HD)
UPC Austria	Channel 501 (SD)
UPC Switzerland	Channel 76 (HD)
IPTV
Telekom Entertain	Channel 14 (SD/HD)
A1 TV (Austria)	Channel 38 (SD) / Channel 338 (HD)
Streaming media
n-tv.de	Watch live

n-tv is a German free-to-air television news channel owned by the Bertelsmann Media's RTL Group. n-tv broadcasts news and weather every hour and half-hour in the morning. It also broadcasts magazine shows and documentaries.

History[edit]

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 McGrath, the then-president of Time-Warner International Broadcasting, the company developed a strategy for Austria, Germany and the German-speaking territories of Switzerland.

One of McGrath's pet projects was a German language 24-hour news channel. McGrath secured the last available transponder on the Kopernikus satellite and secured several terrestrial television licenses for transmission of what would become 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 CEO.

The station started broadcasting in November 1992, headquartered in Berlin. In doing so, it became the first German-language news channel. In 1994 CNN bought 27,5% of the company, and later increased its share to 50%.

In 2004 the station's headquarters were moved to Cologne, where other RTL stations are based.

RTL took full control of n-tv in 2006, having acquired half the company in 2002.

In September 2010, n-tv moved to the Rheinhallen media center in Cologne-Deutz, where all of RTL's TV operations in Germany are based.

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  1 September 2017 - present
  

  
  

  
  


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Programming[edit]

n-tv broadcasts news, business and talk shows. The channel broadcasts news from Monday to Friday on the hour. In the morning every half-hour (between 7 and 9 o'clock every 15 minutes). At weekends, the channel broadcasts news every hour. After 8 pm, n-tv broadcasts 15 minute news bulletins, focused on business news.

The channel also broadcasts documentaries and magazine shows focused on sport and lifestyle. A ticker at the bottom of the screen shows news, business and sports headlines as well as weather and stock market information.

Wall Street coverage[edit]

Several correspondents report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and the New York Mercantile Exchange, including Jens Korte, Lars Halter and Markus Koch.

Former staff[edit]

Audience share[edit]

Germany[edit]

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Annual average
1994[1]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%
1995[2]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%
1996[3]	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%
1997[4]	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%
1998[5]	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%
1999[6]	0.6%	0.6%	0.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%
2000[7]	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%
2001[8]	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.7%
2002[9]	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%
2003[10]	0.5%	0.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%
2004[11]	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%
2005[12]	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%
2006[13]	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%
2007[14]	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.7%
2008[15]	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%
2009[16]	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.9%
2010[17]	0.9%	0.8%	0.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.9%
2011[18]	0.9%	1.0%	1.6%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%
2012[19]	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%
2013[20]	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%
2014[21]	1.0%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	0.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%
2015[22]	1.0%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%
2016[23]	1.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.4%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.2%	1.1%
2017[24]	1.2%	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.2%	1.3%	1.3%	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%
2018[25]	1.0%

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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  Media related to N-tv at Wikimedia Commons


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  Official website (in German)