Buoyant mood, empathy and warmth
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Buoyant mood, empathy and warmth
28 April 2011 week 17 Buoyant mood, empathy and warmth How RTL Radio’s editorial team prepares for France’s most popular morning show International France The royal wedding at RTL Group New interactive features for X Factor Germany Netherlands RTL – Wir helfen Kindern supports children in Mannheim RTL Nederland buys Slam FM the RTL Group intranet week 17 28 April 2011 week 17 Cover: Anchorman Vincent Parizot in the studio of RTL Matin Buoyant mood, empathy and warmth How RTL Radio’s editorial team prepares for France’s most popular morning show International France 2 the RTL Group intranet week 17 Backstage at RTL Matin Vincent Parizot in the studio of RTL Radio Backstage took a peek behind the scenes of what is the leading morning news broadcast across all media in France. France - 28 April 2011 « RTL, il est sept heures ! » (“RTL, it is 7:00!”), says Vincent Parizot, anchorman of RTL Matin. He’s adjusting his headset, picking up his cup of coffee again and getting the most popular morning radio show in France under way. From behind the glass wall of the studio, the show’s producer, Raphaël Nivoit, is constantly in touch with Vincent Parizot. They understand each other’s gestures perfectly, maintain unbroken eye contact and, most importantly of all, implicitly trust each other. One by one, the guests lined up to say their piece to RTL’s listeners take their place in the studio. The morning routine of France’s leading radio station is well established, as its audience statistics attest. Médiamétrie’s latest ratings survey, covering January to March 2011, confirmed the strong performance of the station’s 7:00 to 9:30 morning slot, which draws an accumulated audience of over 4 million listeners, eager to hear fresh newscasts from the studio named Jean Farran. RTL Radio in France, an offshoot of Radio Luxembourg (CLT), was set up by the selfsame Jean Farran at 22 rue Bayard in Paris back in 1966, already 45 years ago. Its Luxembourg roots are in no way hampering French listeners’ adoption of RTL Radio as a French radio station, even though it was broadcast from Dudelange for a long time – a transmitter in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg just a few hundred metres away from the French border. So it is no coincidence that RTL’s new slogan is “Who knows you better than RTL?” The Journalists are aware of being part of a historic station with a hard-earned reputation, carefully carved out over decades. According to RTL Radio’s star interviewer, Jean-Michel Aphatie, the secret behind the success of the morning show is “the brand RTL, which testifies France’s first lady Carla Bruni was a guest on RTL Matin in December 2010 to the station’s long-standing relations of confidence with listeners”. Aphatie says he “tries to do justice to that relationship”. Vincent Parizot, the station’s anchorman from 7:00 to 9:30, says that RTL Radio’s journalists are good at their job and suggests that people listen to them because the people who preceded them were good – in fact just as good as those who will take to the airwaves after them. The presenters of the morning show pick their topics in the Editor-in-Chief’s glass-walled office, the so-called ‘bocal’, piece together the audio footage they need with the help of experienced sound engineers, and keep their eyes glued to the latest agency reports. The ‘continuity 3 the RTL Group intranet report’, a kind of morning show baton progressively passed between the various teams during the night, is there to guide them, along with news agency reports. Radio’s great strength is its adaptability, its capacity to change tack in hardly any time at all. Vincent Parizot recalls the breaking news of the March 2011 earthquake in Japan: “The first reports came in at 6:49, specifying the magnitude of the quake, which I deemed very high. RTL’s correspondent in Tokyo, who experienced the tremors, immediately called us in the ‘bocal’ and we put him on air in place of the economic analysis at 7:20. We recognised it as a major event, but RTL Radio did not opt to highlight the tragedy of what had happened. Instead we chose to give priority to eyewitness accounts.” Parizot has a penchant for giving experts or listeners a chance to have their say during his programme: “At around 8:30 to 8:45 I take tremendous pleasure in touching listeners’ daily lives. I especially like it when listeners challenge the positions adopted by the editorial experts”, he says. At 3:45 in the morning, the editorial conference, like the three others held each day, takes place just metres away from the morning show’s studio, in a space named after Pierre Billaud, the RTL journalist who died in Afghanistan in 2001 covering the start of the war there. The presenters gather round the morning show’s Editor-in-Chief, Philippe Robuchon, to tweak the choices made the day before at the 18:30 editorial conference and assign items to the various news broadcasts at 7:00, 8:00 and 8:30, drawing on the news likely to be of most interest to the station’s listeners. That said, as RTL Matin’s anchorman Vincent Parizot himself admits, it is difficult to pin down what RTL’s ‘average listener’ is like and there is no way he could capture the 4 million French listeners who tune in to his scheduled slot every day. In his opinion, the only defining characteristic that all RTL listeners have in common is that they tune in to this very station and maybe they also share RTL Radio’s set of values as a popular, high-quality radio station for a family audience. However, another anchorman believes he can paint an accurate image of the listeners tuning in to another slot, RTL Petit Matin. The man in question is Daniel Ferrin, Deputy Editor-in-chief, and on the day of the visit paid by Backstage he is presenting the 4:30 to 7:00 show. It is France’s early risers who are coaxed out of sleepiness by the voices of Denis Girolami and weather girl Marina Giraudeau, and the bakers, labourers week 17 and lorry drivers who habitually tune into the programme appreciate its inclusion of news appealing to them. Jean-Michel Aphatie While these early-bird listeners are being gently woken by RTL Petit Matin, journalists back in the rue Bayard put together their analyses of what had been going on in the world. In an office located one floor above the studio, Agnès Bonfillon is concentrating hard. Since 2009, three times a day she presents a ‘review of the press’ for which she is given an entirely free hand. Making her own editorial choices, complemented by advice from Philippe Robuchon and Vincent Parizot, she makes her selection from among the articles published that day, including a few comments on France’s politics and current issues by the foreign press, giving an outsider’s view of the French press that she is fond of adding to the mix. At the same time, Nicolas Baudens prepares his Journal des sports. Three times in the course of the morning he presents sporting news and reports by RTL journalists based in Paris, its regional correspondents or special envoys dispatched abroad. When sports news spills over into the ‘general news’ domain, he too attends the 3:45 editorial conference. Towards 6:30 the pace gradually starts quicken up as RTL perceptibly glides up through the gears, culminating at 7:00 when Vincent Parizot takes to the air waves, launching the station’s prime time show: broadcasts switch from studio 4 to the Jean Farran studio. The editorial writers Eric Zemmour, Bénédicte Tassart and Marie-Bénédicte Allaire present their pieces live, while Thierry Breton, the CEO of international IT services company Atos Origin, prepares to be interviewed by Jean-Michel Aphatie. “That’s 4 the RTL Group intranet week 17 Adeline François The team of Laissez-vous tenter not how I would put the question”, Breton says. “It’s how I chose to put it, though”, replies Jean-Michel Aphatie, speaking on air. After the 9:00 news, before the eyes of some advertisers brought into the studios by IP France, RTL Radio’s advertising sales house, the editorialists on Laissez-vous tenter, the morning-time cultural magazine, are each given a few minutes to present a book, film, or TV programme. RTL’s TV specialist Isabelle Morini-Bosc, watches every day DVDs of the soon-to-be-broadcast programmes on the channels composing France’s audiovisual landscape. She fondly recalls her experience on the M6 show Pékin Express: duos de choc. For even though she hates travelling, dislikes the heat, detests hitchhiking and loathes staying with locals, the invitation to take part was too good an opportunity to miss to watch the show’s production team at work. At 8:00, Adeline François presents the third news broadcast, following on from previous newscasts by Marine Machefer and Odile Pouget. Listeners’ favourite programmes start bang on time and include L’invité d’Yves Calvi, the news analysis by Laurent Gerra and Zappeur RTL, whose items are reordered by Vincent Parizot, using the microphone link between him and the control room. Raphaël Nivoit, who produces the morning show, keeps his ears open, explaining that “to enable Vincent to run the morning show the way he wants to, with flexibility and an ability to react quickly if need be, a very precise triangle has to be fully functioning. That triangle comprises, Vincent Parizot, Philippe Robuchon and me, and it requires great confidence and total candour to work smoothly. Vincent sits opposite me on the other side of the glass, and we communicate by gestures. If any red-hot news breaks, in coordination with Philippe Robuchon, the studio gets hold of the appropriate participants and we get them on air as quickly as possible”, he goes on. At 9:30, two-and-a-half hours after the start of the radio station’s prime time, Vincent Parizot hands over to Julien Courbet. Tomorrow morning, of course, he will be back to present another edition of the show that has accumulated a faithful following of 4 million listeners. 5 the RTL Group intranet week 17 Reliable information Short interview with Jacques Esnous, News Director at RTL Radio Does the power of the RTL brand explain the success of the morning show? There is no way of quantifying how much the RTL brand contributes towards the success of the morning show, but it undeniably has an effect. When listeners tune in to RTL, they know that the information conveyed to them will be reliable, double-checked and often available nowhere else, that it will have been analysed by the biggest names in press reporting. So the RTL brand guarantees a certain quality. And on top of that come individual talents, like Vincent Parizot, whose positive energy and friendly approach enables him, more successfully than anyone else, to make listeners feel at home and wake them up without making them feel browbeaten. What attitude do you take vis-à-vis the competition? Does the morning show tend to adopt more the stance of a leader or of a challenger? Competition is fierce, but we do not determine our own actions on the basis of what our rivals opt to do. We have our own editorial line – high quality and public appeal – and we handle the news in the way that makes it as interesting as possible to the largest number of listeners. So in answer to the latter part of your question, the morning show behaves towards our rivals like a leader, though every day we rise afresh to the challenge. Jacques Esnous News Director at RTL Radio Up-to-date on the web Short interview with Maxence Petitjean, Editor-in-Chief of RTL.fr RTL.fr is the most popular radio website in France. How do you organise the work you do, which is so highly acclaimed by Internet users? The editing of the content on the website is based on the editorial work done by the radio station. For example, my office is located in the ‘bocal’, the nerve centre of RTL’s news team. A member of my team arrives at 6:15 and posts online all the station’s content, plus some background information. Sometimes we also get to post exclusive content, before it is broadcast on the station. Every day we post more than 70 items, including the video footage of the morning show. The studio is equipped with several cameras, which enables us to gather film footage, edit it very quickly and then post it online. How does RTL.fr complement RTL the radio station? RTL.fr is very closely linked to the radio station. By way of an example, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade gave an exclusive radio interview to the RTL journalist Xavier Yvon. Several excerpts of that interview were broadcast by the station that morning, whereas the full version was already posted online at RTL.fr in the evening. And the more frequently the website is mentioned on air, referring listeners to it, the larger its audience becomes. Maxence Petitjean Editor-in-Chief of the website 6 the RTL Group intranet week 17 The royal wedding at RTL Group William and Kate On the day of the wedding, RTL Television viewers will be treated to six hours of emotion and royal glamour up close in a live special entitled William & Kate – Die Traumhochzeit. Frauke Ludowig and Katja Burkard have secured ‘front-row’ seats for RTL Television viewers: they and their guests will have a direct view of the international wedding guests and the young bridal couple from the roof of the ‘Rics’, a prestigious building directly opposite Westminster Abbey. The two presenters will report on the fairytale wedding of the year, live from London between 9:00 and 15:00. That evening, RTL Television will air the emotional highlights of the most romantic day in William and Kate’s life in the additional live special William & Kate – Die Traumhochzeit: Die emotionalsten Momente, from 18:00 to 18:40. Frauke Ludowig and Katja Burkard report for RTL Television On 29 April 2011, millions of viewers around the world will be glued to their TV screens when Prince William and Kate tie the knot. RTL Group’s channels cover the royal wedding extensively. Luxembourg - 26 April 2011 Christina Ringer and Jenny Knäble report for N-TV The news channel N-TV will make sure that viewers don’t miss a single highlight of the royal event by supplying numerous live reports, news specials and special editions of the celebrity and lifestyle magazine 5th Avenue with Christina Ringer. On the big day itself, N-TV will provide news updates about the events in London starting at 6:00. From 11:30 to 15:00, N-TV will provide continuous coverage of the ceremony at Westminster Abbey until the couple give each other the traditional kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. On M6, Nathalie Renoux will report live on the event, commenting on the arrival of the guests, Kate’s dress and the royal couple’s kiss, with the support of experienced columnists. They include Emmanuel de Brantes, the famous society columnist who is thoroughly familiar with the British Royal Family’s entire history as well as Cristina Cordula, the presenter on Nouveau look pour une nouvelle vie on 7 the RTL Group intranet week 17 M6 and Britain’s most Francophile journalist Alex Taylor. The show will also air live on the M6Actu.fr website. Nathalie Renoux reports on M6 For those unable to follow the event live, W9 will air the special programme William et Kate: mariage royal, presented by Sidonie Bonnec that same evening. At 22:40, the made-for-TV film William & Kate: The Movie takes a look at how the royal couple met and their rising mediatisation. The airwaves at RTL Radio in France will also assume a decidedly British accent. On 18 April on the 8:00 news show, journalist Sophie Aurenche started revealing big and little details of the secret wedding preparations. On the day of the wedding, starting at 11:30, crowned heads specialist Henry-Jean Servat will comment on the celebrations alongside Gala magazine’s editor-in-chief Mathias Gurtler. From London, Sophie Aurenche and RTL Radio correspondent Daniel Caron will provide all the details as well as anecdotes and highlights of the event. In Belgium, RTL-TVI promises live and complete coverage of the ceremony’s most moving moments. Distinguished guests will be in the studio to share their experience and knowledge of royal weddings. In the Netherlands, RTL Nieuws is reporting extensively on the royal wedding. Since 25 April, the Ontbijnieuws (Breakfast News) have covered the event with reports from London. The coverage on the wedding day itself will begin at 8:00 with Sidonie Bonnec sums up the events on W9 the Ontbijnieuws on RTL 4, including live reports from special correspondent Sandra Schuurhof in London. From 11:20, Vanessa Lamsvelt will report live from Westminster Abbey, while Sandra Schuurhof will be at the Buckingham Palace to report on the events for RTL Z. The ceremony begins at 12:00 and will be broadcast in its entirety. In the evening, the RTL Nieuws editions at 16:00 and 19:30 as well as Editie NL will sum up the most important moments of the day. RTL Televizija will provide a live broadcast of the royal wedding for approximately 4.5 hours beginning at 10:45 on 29 April. As in other countries, coverage will consist of a combination of studio and live reporting. Special correspondent Antonija Mandic will be in front of Buckingham palace, while Edita Misiric, presenter of Exkluziv Tabloid, will report from a studio in Zagreb, supported by eminent guests from showbiz. In Greece, Alpha will give viewers the opportunity to celebrate this momentous occasion by watching a live broadcast of the Royal Wedding. Since the beginning of March, daily magazines like Pano stin Ora, Kafes me tin Eleni, Kous Kous, Deste Tous and the weekly magazine 8 the RTL Group intranet week 17 Edita Misiric presents the broadcast on RTL Televizija Mess tin Kali Hara have provided information on the wedding preparations and the couple’s styles and habits. On the wedding day itself, Alpha’s broadcast will begin at 7:00 with a live link to Vicky Hatzi in Pano stin Ora. Starting at 11:00, a special edition of Kafes me tin Eleni features the live broadcast of the ceremony. Eleni Menegaki will be assisted by Asi Billiou and Thodoris Koutsogianopoulos. At 13:00, Kous Kous will take over, with Alpha’s “Royal Expert” Roula Hamou discussing the events in the Kous Kous panel. In the afternoon, from 16:00, Deste Tous will sum up the highlights of the day. As a special feature for those not able to watch the events on TV, Alpha will provide a live wedding ticker via its Twitter account, with guest Twitterer comedienne Katerina Zartifi. In Hungary, RTL Klub will broadcast the ceremony live, starting at 12:00. Alpha’s royal wedding logo 9 the RTL Group intranet week 17 “A promise is a promise” Wolfram Kons (second from right in the back landed over the cheque to Xavier Naidoo (centre; in the back) RTL Charity Director Wolfram Kons presented a cheque in the amount of EUR 701,400 to Aktion Aufwind, a charity in Mannheim. This covers the provision of basic care for the project’s 25 children for the next three years. Germany - 26 April 2011 The children at the Aufwind-Mannheim e.V. social centre aren’t likely to forget the day anytime soon. Wolfram Kons and his team visit the centre, play and eat with the kids – and finally the Head of RTL Charity presents Aufwind’s initiator Xavier Naidoo with a cheque for EUR 701,400. This covers the basics needed to ensure that the 25 children in the Aufwind project continue to receive care for the next three years. “A promise is a promise,” says Kons. “Aufwind is an important project, managed with a lot of passion and dedication. The battle against child poverty is one of our top priorities, so we are delighted that a one-of-a-kind campaign enabled us to build an RTL-Kinderhaus with Aufwind here in Mannheim.” Xavier Naidoo, SAP Arena boss Daniel Hopp, the Dietmar Hopp Foundation and Robert Lübenoff, a media entrepreneur from Munich, had formed an alliance to help children in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. On 17 November 2010, the band Söhne Mannheims and friends gave a concert in the sold-out SAP Arena to raise funds for ‘Aufwind’, a project initiated by Söhne Mannheims, and ‘Sonnenkinder’ a Dietmar Hopp Foundation project. The total raised, EUR 540,000, went to the RTL-Spendenmarathon telethon and was personally presented by Hopp in Cologne. Xavier Naidoo and a kid from Aufwind-Mannheim Thanks to donations by RTL viewers and RTL – Wir helfen Kindern partners, this campaign has now culminated in a splendid finale. In addition to RTL’s donation to Aufwind-Mannheim e.V., the Sonnenkinder project will also receive EUR 1,000,000. So EUR 1,701,400 will be returned to the region. “A fantastic result. We’re completely overwhelmed. A big thank-you to everyone who made this possible. The happy laughter of our children is the greatest reward,” said a beaming Xavier Naidoo. “We had hoped that RTL – Wir helfen Kindern would match the donations collected here. The amount that we now have available gives us great joy,” says Robert Lübenoff, who organised the concert. 10 the RTL Group intranet week 17 Another way to watch Follow X-Factor on I-Pad... X Factor, the talent show that is undeniably a success around the world, is broadcasting this year for the first time on M6. One season had previously run on W9, M6’s sister channel on DTT. On the day of the first live broadcast of X Factor, 19 April 2011, M6 launched “Fan Factor”, a new concept specifically available as a free application for the I-Phone and I-Pad. One hundred per cent interactive, this programme allows fans of the talent show to discover what goes on behind the scenes and to share their emotions with their community. With the debut of live broadcasts of X Factor, M6 has launched a free application dedicated to the show. France - 21 April 2011 allows viewers to stay connected with the contestants and to follow their daily life between shows. The “X Factor” application, available at the App Store since 19 April, allows users to watch the show from the comfort of home while also enjoying Fan Factor and the interactivity of Facebook and Twitter. The audience can also vote from their electronic pad or mobile phone. Additionally, X Factor has earned a presence on the virtual community Habbo Hotel thanks to M6 Web. A TV studio with a specific, dedicated on-air design will entertain the show’s fans on Habbo with quizzes about the programme as well as chats with high-profile figures on the show like the candidates or judges. From a set that is slightly raised above the stage where X Factor’s Sandrine Corman presents the live broadcast, ...and on I-Phone Jérôme Anthony and Kévin Crouvizier host Fan Factor, a programme shown exclusively on the new screens. The concept of this new show on M6 is to gather the With Habbo Hotel, Fan Factor, the reactions of the contestants, guests and audience X-factor.fr website plus the I-Phone and and to pass on questions and comments from I-Pad application, M6 offers viewers, internet the fan community. This arrangement is not just users and mobile users a second screen in order reserved for the programmes shown in prime to experience the M6 channel in a whole new time: every day at 18:00, a video magazine way. 11 the RTL Group intranet week 17 RTL Nederland further expands its family of radio stations RTL Nederland has bought up the Dutch radio station Slam FM. This acquisition further expands RTL Nederland’s family of radio stations following the acquisition of Radio 10 Gold at the beginning of 2010. Netherlands - 28 April 2011 fo on: More in .nl SlamFM www.SlamFM.nl The decision was announced on 27 April 2011 following a successful collaboration between the sales departments of RTL Nederland’s radio stations – market leader Radio 538 and Radio 10 Gold – and Slam FM. Slam FM is now part of the RTL Nederland family of radio stations. The autonomous radio station joins a family that already includes the flagship Radio 538, digital station RTL Lounge, launched in October 2009, and Radio 10 Gold, which was acquired at the beginning of 2010. RTL Nederland CEO Bert Habets comments: “We’ve wanted to expand our family of radio stations for a long time. With the new policy of radio frequency allocation, the radio landscape has become safer in the last six years. That’s why this is the perfect moment to take this important strategic step and take over Slam FM. Slam FM is a very strong brand and a superb addition for the listeners we already reach with Radio 538 and Radio 10 Gold.” Jan-Willem Brüggenwirth, General Manager at Radio 538, adds: “Slam FM is the ideal springboard for talented new DJs and we have everything in-house to help both the station and its varied talents to develop further.” Jacqueline Bierhorst, Manager at Slam FM, confirms: “We are absolutely delighted that RTL Nederland plans to develop our station. This acquisition means huge growth opportunities for the brand as well as the people in front of and behind the microphone.” Slam FM which is listened to by 1.2 million people weekly, will keep its status as an autonomous radio station. In addition to the radio station, the TV station Slam TV will also become a subsidiary of RTL Nederland. 12 the RTL Group intranet week 17 An almost perfect wine M6 Interactions and Armonia, specialist in wine competitions, list combine their expertise to launch the first wine selection resolutely designed by and for the general public. France - 28 April 2011 UnVinPresqueParfait.com Most competitions focus on the qualities of wines without taking into account the price or the look of the bottle, factors that nevertheless have a great deal of influence over the act of buying. With Un vin presque parfait, the best vintages will be rewarded according to three new criteria: organoleptic quality, quality / price ratio and label appeal. The 2011 edition of Un Vin presque parfait will be presided over by the “Meilleur Ouvrier de France Sommellerie 2007”, France’s finest artisan in the sommelier category for 2007, Fabrice Sommier. For the first time, the jury for this selection will be made up of an equal number of professional and amateur volunteers from the general public, in order to better represent consumers. Victor Gomez, Managing Director of Armonia, adds: “Viticulturists should be very aware of this new selection that guarantees them both recognition and appeal, to help them reach a wider audience.” The results of the competition will be made public on 15 June. All the prize winners will appear in the book Un vin presque parfait, which will arrive in bookshops next om out Check arfait.c P e u October. q s Pre UnVin As M6 Interactions Managing Director Thierry Desmichelle points out, “M6 Interactions already has a large presence in the world of cooking. With this new initiative, it’s only natural for M6 Interactions to now be of service to amateur oenologists, helping them to choose and better appreciate their wine.” 13 One day in history :00, Vox , from 12:00 to 24 On 30 April 2011 e 12-hour documentary will broadcast th Geschichte – 30 April ‘Ein Tag schreibt on the hour, a roughly 1945.’ Every hourl reconstruction of major 10-minute paralle place at that time on 30 events that took y Adolf Hitler committed April 1945, the dared. Afterwards, these are suicide, will be ait by means of elaborately put into contex cumentaries, featuring researched do ntemporary interviews with co perts. d witnesses an ex the RTL Group intranet week 17 Groupe M6 increases stake in TCM DA Groupe M6 has increased its participation in the audiovisual rights company TCM DA to 100 per cent. France - 22 April 2011 A new website for RTL Z RTL Z unveiled its new website this week, featuring a new ‘Beursdashboard’ that intelligently combines news, videos and stock-market prices. The site’s design was also improved and its navigation simplified. Netherlands - 22 April 2011 Teaching respect, love and passion with Foosball Antena 3 Films joins forces with the production company Plural-Jempsa to produce Juan José Campanella’s first 3D animation film, Futbolín. Spain - 27 April 2011 Motorsport on N-TV Motorsport fans will be getting their money’s worth again on N-TV this year, as the channel makes sure they don’t miss out on any of the world’s top races. Germany - 27 April 2011 15 the RTL Group intranet week 17 People Bertrand Delmas / Anne Boudard France - 22 April 2011 Bertrand Delmas was appointed Secretary General of Studio 89. Anne Boudard has been named Deputy Managing Director of M6 Thématique. Joining the Group in 1996, Anne Boudard has served as Managing Director of TCM DA since 2003. Joining the Group in 2000, Bertrand Delmas has served as Secretary General of M6 Thématique since 2004 and now takes over from Henri de Fontaines at Studio 89. People Hasan Özdemir Germany - 26 April 2011 From 1 May 2011, Hasan Özdemir (37) will take over for Remi Jastram (32) as Senior Manager Merchandising & Licensing at the news channel N-TV while Jastram is on parental leave. In this capacity, he will handle strategy and the further expansion of the merchandising and licensing business at N-TV until Jastram’s return. Hasan Özdemir Özdemir had already worked for Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland from 2000 to 2002, initially as Product Manager, then as Head of Music Merchandising at RTL Enterprises (now RTL Interactive/Licensing). This was followed by stints as a Marketing Director at EMI Music Media and as Head of Merchandising at RTL II in Munich. 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