Tele Munich Group

Tele-München Fernseh-GmbH + Co. Production company
legal form	GmbH & Co.
founding	April 27, 1970
Seat	Munich , Germany
management	Fred Kogel; Markus Frerker; Stephan Katzmann;
Number of employees	1800 (2018)
sales	221.3 million euros (2017)
Branch	Media company
Website	www.tmg.de

TMG is based in Munich

The Tele München Gruppe ( TMG ) is a media company based in Munich .

The activities of the Tele München Group include license trading , holding television and radio broadcasting interests, cinema, video and TV distribution as well as television and film production. It also has one of the largest film libraries in Europe.

history

Tele München GmbH was founded on April 27, 1970 by the author and producer Walter Ulbrich and bought in 1977 by Herbert Kloiber and his business partner Fritz Buttenstedt. Concorde Filmverleih was founded in 1980 and one year later, in 1981, the company acquired cinemas in Hamburg , Berlin and Braunschweig together with the cinema operator Hans-Joachim Flebbe .

In 1985 Tele München became a partner in Sat.1 , but ended its engagement a year later to start the Musicbox television station . In the same year Tele München took over the Munich private radio station Radio Xanadu , which was later renamed Radio Energy .

In 1987, Silvio Berlusconi's company Fininvest acquired 50 percent of Musicbox, creating the basis for the Tele 5 station . In 1988 Axel Springer Verlag and CLT took a share in the Tele München group of companies, 50 percent of which were sold to Capital Cities / ABC in 1989 .

In 1991 Tele München sold its Tele-5 stake to Axel Springer Verlag and just one year later, in 1992, together with CLT, Bertelsmann and Heinrich Bauer Verlag, founded the TV station RTL II . In 1995 the TV station tm3 was launched by Tele München (TMG) and Heinrich Bauer Verlag.

In 1996 Herbert Kloiber bought back the shares in Tele München from Capital Cities / ABC and took over the shares of Heinrich Bauer Verlag in tm3. In 1997 TMG took a stake in the Hungarian private broadcaster TV2 .

In 1998, Rupert Murdoch's company News Corporation , 66 percent of TM3 and two years later, in 2000, the News Corporation took over the station completely.

On April 28, 2002, the Tele 5 broadcaster was restarted by the Tele München Group.

In 2008, Tele-München Fernseh GmbH & Co production company, together with HKL Medienbeteiligungs GmbH & Co KG, also held by Herbert Kloiber, took over the Austrian TV broadcaster ATV . The broadcaster announced in a broadcast: “The sale of the BAWAG PSK share package in the Austrian private broadcaster ATV to the main shareholder Herbert Kloiber has been finalized. Kloiber now holds 99.67 percent of ATV. "

In February 2019 TMG was taken over by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Holdings

production

Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH (Munich, 100%)
Odeon Film AG (Munich, 85.2%)
Load Studios GmbH (Berlin, 33.3%)
Storied Media Group LLC (Santa Monica, USA,?%)

distribution

Concorde Filmverleih GmbH (Grünwald, 100%)
Concorde Home Entertainment GmbH (Grünwald, 100%)
Tele München International GmbH (Grünwald, 100%)

Charisma

RTL II Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG ( RTL II , Grünwald, together with The Walt Disney Company : 31.5%)
TM-TV GmbH ( Tele 5 , Grünwald, 100%)

Others

On Demand Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (Grünwald, 50%)

Warnings for copyright infringement

Tele München Fernseh GmbH had copyright violations in file sharing networks ( peer-to-peer networks) such as eMule or BitTorrent prosecuted by the Munich law firm Waldorf Frommer. The warnings are sent in almost the same wording to a large number of owners of Internet connections after their data according to a resolution according to. Section 101 (9) UrhG has been requested by the respective provider. The aim of the letters is for the recipient of the warning to issue a declaration of cease and desist and to bear the costs of the copyright warning as well as lump-sum damages.

Web links

Commons : Tele München Gruppe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Tele Munich Group

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Kloiber withdraws: KKR takes over Tele München. In: manager-magazin.de. February 25, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
^ Tele-München TV GmbH & Co. KG production company, Munich. In: northdata.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
↑ KKR buys first add-on for Tele München. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
↑ Tele München Group: KKR takes over. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .

[1] Herbert Kloiber withdraws: KKR takes over Tele München. In: manager-magazin.de. February 25, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .

[2] Tele-München TV GmbH & Co. KG production company, Munich. In: northdata.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .

[3] KKR buys first add-on for Tele München. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .

[4] Tele München Group: KKR takes over. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .