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Super RTL
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Country Germany
Broadcast area
Network RTL Group
Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland
Slogan SUPER Primetime. SUPER RTL.
Headquarters Cologne, Germany
Programming
Language(s) German
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift service Toggo Plus
Ownership
Owner
  • RTL Group
Sister channels RTL Zwei
History
Launched 28 April 1995; 28 years ago (1995-04-28)
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television Channel slots vary on each region
Cable
Cablecom Channel slots vary on each region
Kabel Deutschland Channel slots vary on each region
Kabel BW Channel slots vary on each region
Unity Media Channel slots vary on each region
NOS (Portugal) Channel 49
Telemach (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Channel 141
Satellite
Sky Deutschland Channel 560 (SD)
Channel 551 (HD)
Total TV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Channel 818
IPTV
Telekom Entertain (Germany) Channel 9 (SD/HD)
A1 TV (Austria) Channel 28 (SD)
Vodafone TV (Portugal) Channel 61 (SD)
EON TV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Channel 141

Super RTL is a German free-to-air television network owned by the RTL Group. The channel originally launched in 1995 as a joint venture between RTL Group predecessor company CLT-UFA and Disney's Buena Vista International Television Investments (later Disney International Operations) division.

Programming

Programming Blocks

Throughout the day, Super RTL is split into 3 different blocks:

  • Toggo (2001–present) is the network's children programming block and umbrella brand for 6- to 13-year-olds. In 2016, its brand and programming was added to a new network, Toggo Plus, while adding another hour in the morning. Toggo with this change, the block will be on 15 hours a day.
  • Toggolino airs shows aimed towards a pre-school audience. The brand was first used in 2000.

Related services

  • Kividoo: is a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services launched on 28 April 2015 with children's shows from Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation, Studio Hamburg, ZDF Enterprises, HIT Entertainment, BBC Studios and German publishing house Tessloff Verlag.
  • Toggo Plus: The Toggo Plus network would time shift Super RTL's Toggo programming block by an hour delay with the Toggo block added another hour in the morning. This network would add another hour after the block's schedule is completed. Infomercials would fill out the remaining time.
  • Toggo Radio: is an online only radio channel launched at the end of May 2020. The channel will be Super RTL platforms, online radio aggregators and smart devices, but not FM or Digital audio broadcasting initially. Content consists of chart music, children's songs and radio plays.
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