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Germany

Let’s Dance enters season four

Netherlands

RTL Nederland launches dating portal Pepper

France

Fabrice Humbert receives the “Grand Prix RTL – Lire”

Belgium

Alain Simons on 22 years of Télévie

week 12

24 March 2011

Bigger BrotherJohannes Züll and Kaspar Pflueger on the return of Big Brother in an unusual transnational cooperation

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Germany

Let’s Dance enters season four

Netherlands

RTL Nederland launches dating portal Pepper

France

Fabrice Humbert receives the “Grand Prix RTL – Lire”

Belgium

Alain Simons on 22 years of Télévie

week 12

24 March 2011

Bigger BrotherJohannes Züll and Kaspar Pflueger on the return of Big Brother in an unusual transnational cooperation

Cover: Montage with Johannes Züll and Kaspar Pflueger, showing images of Big Brother, Hrvatska traži zvijezdu (Idols) and 1001 noć.

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On 13 March, Big Brother returned to RTL Televizija after a three-year break. 35.8 per cent of viewers tuned in for the season premiere, making it the most-watched show in prime time. Johannes Züll, CEO of RTL Televizija, says: “Big Brother has been a massive brand for RTL Televizija for many years. In fact, RTL Televizija was the one who brought this format to Croatia. After three years, we felt we needed to make the comeback bigger than ever.”

To achieve this, season six of Big Brother is the first transnational edition of the reality show, which is produced by the Serbian pro-duction company Emotion in co-operation with Endemol International. A team of RTL Televizija producers stationed at the Big Brother house in Belgrade is editing the daily episodes in close cooperation with Emotion. The show has gathered a total of 16 candidates from five countries: Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. “As always, the secret to the success of Big Brother lies in a strong cast,” says Kaspar Pflueger, Programming Director at RTL Televizija. “This year again, we have a great collection of old and young, funny and unusual characters.”

The candidates each speak their own native language, but mostly understand each other very well – everyone had a common language back in the days of the former Yugoslavia, when only Slovenia and Macedonia had separate languag-es. Pflueger says: “The languages differ slightly, each have a few unique expressions, but all in all they understand each other well. If necessary,

we have subtitles for our Macedonian candidate, but as he is the only Macedonian in the house, he doesn’t speak Macedonian too often and uses Serbo-Croatian instead.” The candidates have all moved into the Big Brother house in Belgrade, Serbia, where many surprises await them. Probably the biggest one is a place called ‘dump’ where four candidates are already living surrounded by garbage and sleeping in an old bus.

‘Crazy for drama’ Big Brother has attracted huge audiences from the start – yet again. Johannes Züll and Kaspar Pflueger spoke to Backstage about the reality show, the popularity of Turkish drama series, and the newly launched channel RTL 2.Croatia - 24 March 2011

Johannes Züll, CEO of RTL Televizija

Kaspar Plueger, Programming Director at RTL Televizija


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Johannes Züll says: “Given the complicated history, there will be zero tolerance of any nationalistic conflicts related to the 1990s war, and the person in question will be expelled immediately. This edition of Big Brother is seen as a regional project. When we announced the show, the general opinion was that this is a re-unification of Yugoslavia, but when the show started, it was evident that each housemate represents their country in a different way.” Currently there are six Croatian citizens in the house. “Viewers were curious about this new regional approach,” adds Pflueger, commenting on the good ratings. “Although this series is a co-production between five different markets, we made sure the project carries a strong RTL Televizija DNA. We have our own host as part of the host-duo for the live show, we edit our own daily show – so we make sure we get the best possible show for our Croatian audience.”

The Big Brother house for season six is the most expensive house to date for the Croatian production. It covers 400 square metres plus a 300 square metres garden and has an indoor swimming pool. Candidates are monitored by 46 cameras and 60 microphones, and the production team is 200 strong. “Anyway, a regional production is more cost-efficient than a stand-alone version and will serve as a test case for future projects,” says Züll.

This spring, RTL Televizija has more highlights to offer its viewers, as Kaspar Pflueger tells Backstage: “We launched new seasons of Hrvatska traži zvijezdu, Jezikova juha, Ljubav je na selu and have just added the brand-new hit series Hawaii Five-O to our list of strong US series. In addition we will be showing a powerful, controversial documentary about Croatia’s most famous sportsman Dražen Petrovic in a few days.”

After two seasons of Hrvatska traži zvijezdu (Idols), the third season kicked off on RTL Televizija on 4 March with all-new excitement, new stories, and a new cast of would-be stars and excellent audience shares of 36 per cent among viewers aged 18 to 49. The jury composed of Tony Cetinski, Goran Lisica Fox and the new member Ivana Miseric is going to be even stricter this season. The auditions held in Zagreb and Split were packed with funny stories and colourful candi-dates; some rendered the panel speechless with their vocal skills, others literally made them flee the hall.

Also on 15 March, Jezikova juha (Kitchen Night-mares) returned for a new season with twelve new episodes. In season three, Stephan Macchi ventures beyond Croatia’s borders to Zenica and Sarajevo in Bosnia. However, the third season started out in Zagreb, where chairs got thrown around a restaurant while Macchi remained true to himself, proving that incompetent restaurant owners would be shown no mercy. In the new episodes, Macchi will insist on everyone doing their absolute best, and will be even stricter and more demanding in his treatment of those who fall short of his standards. Ljubav je na selu (The Farmer Wants A Wife) returns with an episode introducing the next season’s farmers to the viewers, before the full new season kicks off in autumn.

Inside the Big Brother house

Presenters of Big Brother: Matijana Micic and RTL Televizija’s Antonija Blace (right)


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1001 noć, a Turkish drama, was RTL Televizija’s most popular programme, attracting more than 36 per cent viewers on average. “1001 noć was an absolute phenomenon last year, the most-watched programme of 2010 and one of the most-watched series ever broadcast in Croatia,” says Johannes Züll. “The country went absolutely crazy for the Turkish love drama and the cast members were celebrated like major rock stars when they visited Zagreb.”

The series culminated in a finale on 4 March when viewers discovered that Sehrazat will find happiness and put her and Onur back together. Kaspar Pflueger says: “We came across this series when we were looking for alternatives to US drama series. Croatia is a small market so we don’t have a lot of our own local drama series. Turkish series are much closer to Croatia in terms of look, stories and themes than US

series. This resonated extremely well with viewers here. We started a major trend, as there are now five Turkish series on air on different channels in Croatia.”

After the company was granted a license for a second channel last year, RTL 2 launched on 2 January, and has captivated viewers right from the start. In January, RTL 2 achieved an av-erage audience share of 4.9 per cent in its target demographic of viewers aged 18 to 49. At the moment, RTL 2 attracts 5.9 per cent of the young viewers on average, making it the most-watched niche channel in Croatia. Kaspar Pflueger says “We are extremely happy with the audience results so far. The channel is positioned as a complementary, younger – and slightly naughty – brother to RTL Televizija and the results are very promising. One of the pillars of the schedule is Croatia’s first daily late prime-time talk show.”

Kaspar Pflueger, Martina Vulentin, Head of RTL 2, and Johannes Züll (from left to right)


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A new presenting couple, new four-strong panel of judges, new dances and ten new celebrities taking to the dance floor. For the first time, the nine-part celebrity dance competition is presented by Sylvie van der Vaart (32) and Daniel Hartwich (32). Excitement was guaranteed from the very first episode, as the first couple was eliminated before the show was over. 19.7 per cent of the viewers aged 14 to 49 tuned in. “Last year, the show was a very important moment in my life, perhaps even the beginning of a new life,” says van der Vaart. “Let’s Dance is full of elegance, drama and glamour. Passionate dancing, in gorgeous dresses, with lots of sequins, feathers and glittery magic. It’s perfect for the little show-girl in me, I love all that and am totally excited.”

The four judges this season are Roman Frieling (37), a ballroom dance coach and adjudicator, Germany’s most extravagant fashion designer Harald Glööckler, the professional dancer and judge Motsi Mabuse (29), and the international judge and most dreaded dance judge Joachim Llambi (46). Sylvie van der Vaart says: “For me, it’s very important to maintain close contact with the celebrities and professional dancers. Perhaps partly to protect them from the jury, especially from Mr Llambi. After all, I know exactly what it feels like to face the judges.”

Let’s Dance was the show highlight of the spring TV seasons in 2006, 2007 and 2010. In 2006, Wayne Carpendale danced his way to the title with the professional dancer Isabel Edvardsson. Susan Sideropoulos was the radiant ‘Dancing Star 2007’, and in 2010 Sophia Thomalla won just ahead of Sylvie van der Vaart.

Celebrity dance contest enters the next roundThe celebrated talent show Let’s Dance entersed its fourth season. The upcoming season promises even more glamour and drama.Germany - 23 March 2011

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Presenters Sylvie van der Vaart and Daniel Hartwich

The Jury: Roman Frieling, Harald Glööckler, Motsi Mabuse and Joachim Llambi (from left to right)


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As ever, Germans spend much of their free time watching television: adults aged 14 and older spent an average of nearly four hours (237 minutes) per day in front of their TV screens. Even if many German households already own devices that allow them to watch shows at a time of their choice, for the most part programmes are still watched at the time of their broadcast. According to AGF figures, time-shifted view-ing accounts for not even one per cent of total TV usage. Online mediatheques like RTL Now are used primarily to catch up on missed pro-grammes.

But wherein lies the psychological appeal of watching TV shows at exactly the time they are broadcast? To explore answers to this question, 52 test persons were invited to the Concept M market research institute’s “Alltagsstudio” (Everyday Studio) in Berlin, where they were observed and filmed as they watched their favourite formats, such as Deutschland sucht den Superstar or Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In an in-depth interview before and after their TV sessions, the test persons answered questions about their TV viewing habits. The extensive video material allowed for observing unconscious behaviour patterns, which pro-vided additional insights into their motivational constellations.

The researchers were able to identify three factors that explain the lasting powers of fascination of linear TV. These loyalty factors – structuring tool (fixed broadcast time), community dynamics (discussing it with friends), real-time captivation (witnessing events ‘live’) – should not be seen in isolation, but interact with each other, are interdependent and reinforce each other. This benefits not only non-fictional formats such as sports broadcasts: for series like the tested perennial audience magnet Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten it also matters that you watch them at the right time, that is when they are broadcast on TV.

The existence and interplay of the loyalty factors represents the main difference between linear, real-time TV watching and self-initiated, time-shifted or other non-linear viewing. According to IP Deutschland, the uses and gratifications of linear television described above will continue to be very relevant in future. Even if – from a technology point of view – migration to self-chosen programming is getting easier and easier, the loyalty effects of the predetermined linear programme line-up remains a powerful factor.

The fascination of linear televisionAll of the many options for time-shifted television aside, linear TV remains a fixture in the everyday routine of Germans. A new IP Deutschland study examines why.Germany - 18 March 2011

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Between 7:00 and 9:00, compact 15-minute news shows will bring viewers up to date on what’s happening around the world. At the same time N-TV is strengthening its business coverage. With the go-live of the second studio at the channel’s new home in Cologne-Deutz, starting in April the business programmes will be broadcast from a dedicated set, and Telebörse will become the umbrella brand for all business formats. “In the early morning viewers have different information requirements. They want to get a fast but comprehensive update,” explains Volker Wasmuth, Editor-in-Chief at N-TV. “Our new 15-minute news are a response to this need.”

Between 9:00 and 12:00, the news, sports and weather are presented in half-hour shows broad-cast from Studio One. The business news will be broadcast from the new Studio Two. Says Wasmuth: “The separate set opens up entirely new presentation options for business reporting on N-TV. As they have come to expect, viewers will learn all the important news of the markets on N-TV – but presented in a more contempo-rary and suitable way.”

Between 12:00 and 15:00 the show Thema des Tages (Today’s Topic) will round out the half-hourly news and business reporting. Aired at 12:40, 13:40 and 14:40, it features two presenters who will look at the day’s hot topic from various angles and supply extensive background information.

From 15:00, anchorman Christoph Teuner keeps viewers informed hourly about the day’s news. “Apart from the changed basic structure of our news line-up, N-TV will of course continue to serve up Breaking News and News Spezialshows whenever something important is happening in the world,” promises Wasmuth.

Stronger business coverageN-TV introduces a restructured daytime news line-up beginning 1 April. Germany - 21 March 2011

Volker Wasmuth

Christoph Teuner


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Through the blog 5daters.nl hundreds of singles responded with their experiences, ideas and wishes with regard to online dating. The input is integrated into the development of Pepper.

The outcome is a website which literally gives members more communication possibilities. By registering they all can set up a profile where they can upload pictures, movies, favourite songs or other favourites either from Facebook, the internet or from their computers, all in a bid to stand out. These elements can be used as ice-breaking material for a first email or chat. The profile also contains a list of questions to which every member replies upon registration, and which serves as a basis to Pepper to bring singles with similar interests together.

Besides the profile, other tools are the Chat-Pepper, a unique chatroom which helps singles to start a conversation according to the subjects that interests them. In the Chat-Pepper

pictures and movies from Facebook or the profiles of both daters are automatically displayed. Another feature is Just Coffee which helps singles asking other singles out on a date.

Pepper will bring more spice to the dating lives of those who connect to this brand-new dating website developed by the RTL Nederland Ventures Division. Nicolaus Eglau, Director Ventures RTL Nederland, comments: “The site has been developed in a way that it can stimulate the conversation between daters, but also the communication between singles and the creators of the site. Together with the help of hundreds of singles we created a website which should correspond to their needs. I am convinced that the success of the site will be determined by how well we listen to the needs of the people we developed this website for: the 2.6 million singles in the Netherlands.”

Pepper spices up the conversation between singlesOn 24 March 2011 the RTL Nederland Ventures Division launched Pepper – the first dating site in the Netherlands that has been established with the help of singles.Netherlands - 24 March 2011

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Pepper.nl!

Roel Mos (left) and Nicolas Eglau of RTL Nederland with Dianne Caris (centre) who was one of the five daters

of the blog 5daters.nl

www.Pepper.nl


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The “Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2011” went to Fabrice Humbert’s La fortune de Sila on opening night of the Salon du Livre in Paris. The prize-winning author received his award from the former Head of RTL Radio in France, Philippe Labro, and the Manager of Lire magazine, François Busnel. Christopher Baldelli, Chairman of the Board of RTL Radio in France and its News Director, Jacques Esnous, were both present at the ceremony.

Paris, June 1995: in a famous restaurant, a waiter is violently struck by an American customer. No one around him intervenes. Not the Russian couple who contemplate this scene with mixed feelings, nor the angry customer’s wife, nor the two young French people who have come to celebrate landing a first job at a bank. A simple anecdote? Not even a trivial event? In the course of life, no event, as minimal as it seems, is insignificant. The brutality of one, the indifference or cowardice of others, will soon be revealed for what they really are: the first sign of these people’s decline. La fortune de Sila is published by Editions Le Passage and the book is soon to be adapted for the big screen.

“Staggering! Fabrice Humbert brilliantly stages the financial madness in the world and its charac-ters’ stampede toward the abyss,” said Bernard Lehut in his radio column of 26 August 2010. Bernard Lehut is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the culture department and RTL Radio’s literary specialist. Every Sunday at 12:50 he shares his passion for literature on the programme Les livres ont la parole.

Created in 1975, the “Grand Prix RTL-Lire” is pre-eminently a readers’ prize. Each year, a jury made up of professionals, booksellers and readers awards the novel that has touched it the most. The authenticity of this prize stems from the heterogeneity of the readership that awards it. After the editorial departments of RTL Radio and Lire magazine have selected five novels, a total of 100 readers, of all ages and all socio-professional categories, have the last word in electing the prize-winner, who receives substantial editorial coverage and an on-air promotional campaign on France’s number one radio station.

Promoting books From exhibits, music and books to cinema and the theatre, RTL Radio in France maintains its commitment to culture. It honours literature by putting the spotlight on the latest book by Fabrice Humbert.France - 22 March 2011

Fabrice Humbert


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In 2010 Belgium and Luxembourg – which joined the adventure in 2001 – raised EUR 7.8 million for the National Scientific Research Fund. To date, Télévie has raised more than EUR 100 million, a fabulous sum of money. While the 23rd edition is in full swing, Alain Simons spoke enthusiastically about his passionate commit-ment to Télévie that is saving lives.

You’ve just launched a new show related to Télévie on RTL-TVI. What’s it about?It’s a 2 minute 30 second mini-format that I host every day of the week at 18:25. The show is called Faisons gagner la vie and its objective is to highlight the fantastic work that is being done by volunteers. Throughout the year in French-speaking Belgium, in big cities and in tiny villages, Belgians with big hearts organise various events to raise money to help Télévie. In all, we’re going to broadcast 45 shows, in this way honouring the work of volunteers. To me it’s just a basic courtesy for RTL Belgium to shine a spotlight on these unknown peo-ple. Faisons gagner la vie is an opportunity to show RTL-TVI viewers what happens on the ground and hopefully give them the desire to attend one event or another, as I announce the schedule of weekend events each Friday.

What does Télévie represent for you personally?As for this magnificent wave of solidarity that travels through Belgium every year, it’s been 22 years and it never ceases to amaze me: the Belgians’ unfailing commitment and the viewers’ enormous generosity always touch my heart deeply. I should say that the objective we hope to achieve is enormous, but it isn’t crazy. Thanks to advances made in research, together we can beat cancer. This terrible word concerns all of

us. Everyone knows someone in their family or circle of friends that is contaminated by this poison. This helps to explain our motivation, my motivation, too.

What has changed in 22 years?The situation is evolving positively. With the advances made in science, 90 per cent of children’s leukaemias can now be cured. Even so, efforts should not be slowed down, because every five days, a child in Belgium dies of cancer. As for the initiative itself, and even though it is RTL Belgium that started it all more than 20 years ago, this show of solidarity is

Alain Simons and Faisons gagner la vieTélévie was launched in Belgium 22 years ago. In Backstage, RTL Belgium’s star host Alain Simons talks about the launch of this movement that over the years would become the biggest show of solidarity ever to benefit cancer research. Belgium - 21 March 2011

Alain Simons


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beyond belief. Télévie no longer belongs to RTL, it is the public that has made it its own. In other words, Télévie is the property of the Belgians, it’s their cause. I think this is a unique case. To my knowledge, I don’t know of any other charitable movement that has become the cause of an entire people in this way. Here at RTL Belgium, we are more than 100 per cent committed. More than ever, we continue to stay involved by providing airtime, thus giving the cause greater exposure, by appealing for donations, and simply just by giving.

The 2010 Télévie’s edition gathered EUR 7.8 million

About Alain SimonsTelevision and radio personality Alain Simons is a figurehead of RTL Belgium. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the first game show on RTL-TVI, Coup de dés, a home game invented entirely by the channel. He caused ratings to go through the roof, and the show ended up scoring higher audience figures than the evening news on the public channel that was broadcast in the same time slot. In 1989 Alain Simons also hosted Dix qu’on aime, a variety show that let young beginners take their first steps in the song world before becoming stars. In 2000 he presented Qui sera millionnaire?, which is his fondest memory of his career. Alain Simons has also been a presence on Bel RTL since the station’s debut.


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The policy analysis and communication consultancy institute carried out an extensive, one-week content analysis on how balanced the information in the evening news programmes is. The analysis highlighted that except for RTL Klub, all the news programmes are domi-nated by the Fidesz-KDNP governing parties’ politicians in terms of airtime.

Only RTL Klub’s Híradó meets European programme-editing standards – the 62 percent representation of the governing parties’ politicians in the news is close to their two-third advantage in the Parliament. Other channels’ news devoted 72 to 84 percent of their news-time to these politicians. RTL Klub’s two-thirds airtime rate is an accurate representation of the Parliament members’ share on the governing side, with government getting two-thirds of the presence, and the opposition approximately one-third.

In RTL Klub’s Híradó, ultra-right-wing Jobbik has the lowest presence of the opposition parties, although its programme still meets all the relevant legal requirements. Beyond percentage figures, RTL Klub’s news programmes portray majority and opposition politicians in positive as well as negative contextual environments.

The market-leading channel continually strives to provide its viewers with impartial information on all topics of general public interest – regard-less of whether the news is in connection with the government or the opposition. Also, representa-tives of both the government and the opposition are given a voice on all current topics.

Policy Solutions is a political research and consultancy institute specialising in Hungar-ian politics, European bureaucracy, academia, non-profit and profit organisations.

Independent news for Hungary Policy Solutions’ latest media analysis indicates that RTL Klub’s Híradó provides the most balanced information of all national TV news in Hungary.Hungary - 21 March 2011

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Antónia Eros (right) and István Szello, presenters of Híradó


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Since its launch on 17 January 2010 on Antena 3, El Barco (The Boat) has been a veritable TV phenomenon in Spain. It has dethroned competitor La 1 in the Monday prime time slot, attracting an average 20 per cent of its 16- to 54-year-old target audience each week.

The Globomedia-produced series that has taken the TV world and the World Wide Web by storm – with 215,000 fans on Facebook and over 30,000 followers on Twitter – has inspired a reality show. This will also be produced by Globomedia and will see 12 total strangers who are looking for new meaning in their lives living on a sailing boat with no one but themselves and each other to rely on for 30 days. Their vessel will be the ‘Cervantes Saavedra’, the same ship that was used to record the exterior scenes of El Barco. As in the series, discipline, hard work, com-petency, the ability to live with others, and the mystery of which route to take to reach the final destination will be the central elements of this new action-packed reality show. All competition will take place at sea, with no harbour in sight and no new food, which means that the risks and dangers will multiply considerably throughout the days at sea.

Auditions for the new reality show will begin shortly.

Fiction becomes realityThe TV series El Barco has inspired a reality show scheduled for broadcast on Antena 3. Globomedia will produce the show.Spain - 23 March 2011

...the same ship that was used for the exterior scenes in El Barco

The reality show will be shot aboard the ‘Cervantes Saavedra’...

Tuesday is

Katzenberger Day

On 22 March at 20:15, Vox began

airing the new episodes of Daniela

Katzenberger – natürlich blond (Daniela

Katzenberger – Naturally Blonde). This

time, Katzenberger looks for a partner,

has photo shoots and has a stint as

a guest presenter on

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Federal Cartel Office prohibits collective central Internet platform for TV videosThe Federal Cartel Office has prohibited the establishment of a collective, cross-broadcaster online video platform, and thus prevents an innovative offer – especially from the user’s viewpoint – for free time-shifted viewing of TV content on a central platform.Germany - 18 March 2011

Over EUR 700,000 for JapanThe first few days since the launch of the Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern donations drive last week have brought in EUR 726,212 of direct relief for the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.Germany - 24 March 2011

Licence negotiations end wellFollowing intensive negotiations with the Dutch government, FM Radio stations in the Netherlands will pay cheaper radio licence fees, a decision that also affects Radio 538. Netherlands - 23 March 2011

Fun and games in ten German citiesSuper RTL will be running its popular Toggo Tour again in 2011. Children can get up close and personal with their beloved heroes from Super RTL’s programmes in ten German cities. Germany - 23 March 2011

Spontaneous stardomDue to the great demand, Vox and Grundy Light Entertainment are now offering additional auditions that require no pre-registration for the second season of X Factor. The judges for the show have also been picked: rap artist Das Bo joins Sarah Connor and Till Brönner. Germany - 24 March 2011


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People

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Niek van der Bruggen first joined Radio 538, the Netherlands’ leading radio station, in 2006. The radio jockey has now extended his contract for another three years.

Monday to Thursday, the popular presenter jointly presents Radio 538’s noontime program-ming with Ruud de Wild and Jelte van der Goot. At the weekend, van der Bruggen is on the air with his own three-hour show from 12:00 on. He also travels the Netherlands in the early morning hours with Radio 538 DJ’s on Tour.

Niek van der Bruggen says: “Radio 538 has become a part of my life, with Ruudewild.nl during the week and my own show at the week-end. I’ve been with the station for five years now, and that’s no coincidence: 5 plus 3 makes 8. One more reason to stay at 538.”

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