Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland is one of the leading media companies in Germany. Its strong brands reach an audience of approximately 90 million viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to its free-to-air channels RTL Television, Vox and N-TV and RTL Nitro, the company portfolio also includes four digital niche channels: RTL Crime, Passion, RTL Living and GEO Television as well as the affiliates RTL II and Super RTL. RTL Interactive was set up to cover all the interactive and transaction-based operations that fall outside classic TV provision. These include the areas of online, mobile, teletext, SmartTV, added value telephony services and merchandising and licensing. Within Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, there are a number of other important functions fulfilled by the marketing organization IP Deutschland, by the news/magazine company infoNetwork as well as by the broadcasting and production company Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC). Regional operators RTL Nord, RTL West and RTL Hessen produce various local magazine programs such as Guten Abend RTL and also feed reports for the RTL news broadcasts. Other members of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland include the production companies Norddeich TV and Action Concept, music publishers i 2 i and the RTL school of journalism.