RTL aktuell is a German

Germany

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 television news programme broadcast on the commercial station RTL

RTL Television

Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

. The main 20-minute bulletin airs every night at 6:45pm CET

Central European Time

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, supplemented by breakfast news bulletins (Punkt 6 and Punkt 9), a lunchtime magazine programme (Punkt 12) and a late night bulletin (RTL Nachtjournal). Weekend bulletins are branded as RTL aktuell Weekend.

Since September 11, 2010 RTL aktuell is broadcast in HD

High-definition television

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Presenters

• Peter Kloeppel
  Peter Kloeppel
  Peter Gert Johannes Kloeppel is a German journalist and chief editor of RTL Television.- Life and work :...
  
   (Chief anchor, also managing editor)
• Lothar Keller (Stand-in anchor)
• Annett Moeller (Stand-in anchor)
• Ulrike von der Groeben (Sports presenter)
• Christian Haeckl (Weather presenter)

Awards

In 2007, RTL aktuell won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis

Deutscher Fernsehpreis

The Deutscher Fernsehpreis is a German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created as a equivalent to the Emmy Awards though it is not organized by an academy and is awarded annually in September or October...

 (German TV award) in the category of Beste Informationssendung (Best News Broadcast).

Market share

Market shares

Market share

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 of RTL aktuell in the target audience

Target audience

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of 14 to 49-years-old:

Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Market share (%)	23,1	22,4	20,2	22,2	20,7	19,7	18,2	19,3