COLOGNE, Germany -- RTL on Thursday became Germany's first commercial television channel to offer podcasts, debuting its new video-podcast service at high-tech trade fair CeBit in Hanover. RTL is offering a podcast version of its flagship newscast, RTL Aktuell. RTL said it also will regularly post updated news reports on RTL Aktuell's Web site which can be downloaded as Mpeg 4-Video for mobile viewing. "With this new service we are targeting the needs of a young, information-hungry generation," RTL news head Peter Kloeppel said. "For them, these kinds of targeted, downloadable mobile services are becoming a matter of course." CeBit, the world's largest technology trade fair, runs through March 15.
COLOGNE, Germany -- Dirk Schweitzer will replace August Rinner as head of acquisitions and sales at leading German commercial broadcaster RTL Television, RTL said Monday. Schweitzer, currently head of RTL's on-air marketing, design and promotion division RTL Creation, will take over Jan. 1. He will report directly to Constantin Lange, head of RTL's diversification and program acquisition division. Schweitzer's appointment marks the latest management changing of the guard at RTL and comes just a week before Marc Conrad is set to take over from company CEO Gerhard Zeiler. Others moving up in the executive shuffle include Ingrid Haas, who will replace Hans Mahr as director of information and media policy, and star anchorman Peter Kloeppel, who will take on Mahr's news editor job.
- 10/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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