Anyone who watches his news on private television could soon wonder whether he or she was wrong about the TV station. The most important news of the day will soon be read out by more and more people whom the public has known for years from public service programs. While Jan Hofer on RTL as well Linda Zervakis and Matthias Opdenhövel get their own programs at Pro Sieben, Pinar Atalay will supplement an existing news format: RTL news, the broadcaster’s main news program for more than 20 years.
The earlier one Daily Topics-Moderator, who will switch to RTL from August, will present the news program a month later, starting in September, together with Peter Kloeppel, Charlotte Maihoff, Maik Meuser, Anna Fleischhauer and Christopher Wittich. RTL announced this on Friday. “I’m very happy to be able to present the most important news of the day on RTL to viewers at prime time,” said the 43-year-old in a message. Atalay did not want to comment on her new job when asked by SZ. According to RTL news chief Gerhard Kohlenbach, she will “play a central role in shaping the information and news offers.” Atalay is increasingly becoming the face of RTL.
Before that, however, she and Peter Kloeppel will moderate the triumph of the Chancellor candidate and the Chancellor candidates from the CDU, SPD and Greens before the federal elections. She was also already known to perform in addition to her regular appearances RTL news the new news magazine RTL direct alternating with Ex-daily News– Speaker Jan Hofer will moderate. The format is seen as an attack on Atalay’s earlier show: just like that Daily Topics runs RTL direct from August 16 on weekdays at 10:15 p.m.
RTL recently announced that it wanted to massively expand the share of information and news formats. In addition to the new journal with Jan Hofer and Pinar Atalay, the station is relying on an additional issue of from next Monday RTL news at 4:45 p.m., before the program starts two hours later at the usual time. The background to the change is the ambition of RTL and Pro Sieben to broadcast a more relevant program. News is a “unique selling point” of linear television, with which it can assert itself against the competition of streaming providers, said Pro-Sieben board spokesman Rainer Beaujean in December of the SZ.