RTL night journal
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | RTL night journal |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 1994 |
| Production company |
RTL infoNetwork |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Mondays to Fridays |
| genre | News broadcast |
| Moderation | |
| First broadcast | January 3, 1994 on RTL Television |
The RTL Nachtjournal is a news magazine for the German TV broadcaster RTL . The approximately 30-minute program will be broadcast live from Cologne Monday to Friday at midnight .
procedure
Compared to the main news program RTL aktuell , the current topics of the day are dealt with in more detail in the RTL Nachtjournal and the background is illuminated, and there are often interviews with politicians, experts or other important people of the day, which are always recorded before the program is broadcast. Each program consists of six to eight magazine articles and a short news overview at the end of the program. Then, after a short commercial break, there is the weather report, which is presented by an off-speaker .
history
The RTL Nachtjournal went on air for the first time on January 3, 1994. The format quickly became successful and set the trend on German television to include a detailed late-night news program in the program at midnight . It was the model for the Nachtmagazin the first , tonight the ZDF and "Sat.1 News - the night" radio station Sat.1 . To this day, RTL Nachtjournal is the market leader among German late night news programs.
Moderators
| moderator | Years | Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current moderators | |||||
| Ilka Essmüller | since January 2, 2008 | Anchorwoman | |||
| Lothar Keller | since October 2017 | alternating with Ilka Eßmüller | |||
| Christoph Hoffmann | since July 18, 2019 | alternating with Ilka Eßmüller | |||
| Former moderators | |||||
| Heiner Bremer | January 3, 1994 to January 5, 2004 | Anchorman | |||
| Michael Karr | January 3, 1994 to January 5, 2004 | Deputy of Heiner Bremer | |||
| Anna Doubek | 1994 to 1995 | Deputy of Heiner Bremer | |||
| Susanne Kronzucker | January 5, 2004 to December 14, 2007 | in weekly rotation with Christof Lang | |||
| Christof Lang | January 5, 2004 to December 28, 2012 | Anchorman and Chief Editor | |||
| Frederik Pleitgen | May 21, 2013 to December 24, 2014 | a week a month | |||
| Isabelle Körner | October 24, 2009 to May 31, 2019 | alternating with Ilka Eßmüller | |||
| Maik Meuser | January 5, 2015 to December 19, 2019 | alternating with Ilka Eßmüller | |||