N24 Media

N24 Media GmbH was a German news media company that, until 10 July 2014, was the sole operator of the German television channel N24 (now known as Welt). Its activities were transferred to WeltN24 GmbH on 11 July 2014 through a merger with the Welt Group, and the original company was dissolved at the end of 2014. From 1 January 2015, WeltN24 GmbH became the sole operator of N24. WeltN24 (formerly N24 Media) is a specialist provider of news in various formats—television, internet, and tabloid-style programming—and is economically independent of Germany's two largest private media operators, RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media. The company's subsidiary Maz & More TV Produktion GmbH produced the daily Sat.1 breakfast television show and the daily program Echt Gold – Mein Magazin for Sat.1. In 2011, the N24 television channel achieved a 1.4 percent market share among viewers aged 14 to 49, making it the market leader among German news broadcasters—a position N24 had held since 2004. N24 produced a 24-hour program and also supplied news for the TV channels ProSieben, SAT.1, and kabel eins. N24 Media attempted to secure broadcast time as a third-party broadcaster on Sat.1 but was initially unsuccessful. In February 2011, the operation of the N24 television channel and N24 Media were legally separated. The broadcasting rights of the then N24 GmbH were transferred to Blitz B10-263 GmbH, later renamed N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH, ensuring the transfer of the channel's assets. In this process, N24 Media GmbH became the new sole owner of the new N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH. The channel also changed its broadcasting license from a niche channel to a full program. The owners of N24 Media were Torsten Rossmann and Stefan Aust with 26 percent each, as well as Frank Meißner, Maria von Borcke, Thorsten Pollfuß, and Karsten Wiest with 12 percent each. All owners were also managing directors of N24 Media. The former subsidiary N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH first reached profitability in September 2009, one year earlier than calculated, demonstrating that a second news channel in Germany could be operated economically. On 9 December 2013, Axel Springer AG announced it would take over N24 Media GmbH 100 percent and merge the editorial teams of N24 and Die Welt. N24 Media held a 49 percent stake in Agenda Media GmbH; other owners were Studio Hamburg Produktion (25.1 percent), Stefan Aust (13.4 percent), and film author Thomas Ammann (12.5 percent).

N24 Media GmbH was a German news media company that, until 10 July 2014, was the sole operator of the German television channel N24 (now Welt). Its activities were transferred to WeltN24 GmbH on 11 July 2014 through a merger with the Welt Group, and the original company was dissolved at the end of 2014. From 1 January 2015, WeltN24 GmbH became the sole operator of N24. WeltN24 (formerly N24 Media) is a specialist provider of news in various formats—television, internet, and tabloid-style programming—and is economically independent of Germany's two largest private media operators, RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media. The company's subsidiary Maz & More TV Produktion GmbH produced the daily Sat.1 breakfast television show and the daily program Echt Gold – Mein Magazin for Sat.1. In 2011, the N24 television channel achieved a 1.4 percent market share among viewers aged 14 to 49, making it the market leader among German news broadcasters—a position N24 had held since 2004. N24 produced a 24-hour program and also supplied news for the TV channels ProSieben, SAT.1, and kabel eins. N24 Media attempted to secure broadcast time as a third-party broadcaster on Sat.1 but was initially unsuccessful. In February 2011, the operation of the N24 television channel and N24 Media were legally separated. The broadcasting rights of the then N24 GmbH were transferred to Blitz B10-263 GmbH, later renamed N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH, ensuring the transfer of the channel's assets. In this process, N24 Media GmbH became the new sole owner of the new N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH. The channel also changed its broadcasting license from a niche channel to a full program. The owners of N24 Media were Torsten Rossmann and Stefan Aust with 26 percent each, as well as Frank Meißner, Maria von Borcke, Thorsten Pollfuß, and Karsten Wiest with 12 percent each. All owners were also managing directors of N24 Media. The former subsidiary N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH first reached profitability in September 2009, one year earlier than calculated, demonstrating that a second news channel in Germany could be operated economically. On 9 December 2013, Axel Springer AG announced it would take over N24 Media GmbH 100 percent and merge the editorial teams of N24 and Die Welt. N24 Media held a 49 percent stake in Agenda Media GmbH; other owners were Studio Hamburg Produktion (25.1 percent), Stefan Aust (13.4 percent), and film author Thomas Ammann (12.5 percent).

• N24 becomes market leader among German news broadcasters, a position it maintains.

• N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH reaches profitability one year earlier than calculated.

• Legal separation of N24 television channel operation and N24 Media; N24 Media becomes sole owner of the new N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH.

• N24 achieves 1.4 percent market share among viewers aged 14–49.

• Axel Springer AG announces 100 percent takeover of N24 Media GmbH and merger of N24 and Die Welt editorial teams.

• N24 Media activities transferred to WeltN24 GmbH through merger with the Welt Group.

• N24 Media GmbH dissolved.

• WeltN24 GmbH becomes sole operator of N24.

Specialist news provider, market leader among German news broadcasters from 2004, economically independent of RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media.

• N24 television channel

  24-hour news channel operated by N24 Media until 2014.

• News production for ProSieben, SAT.1, and kabel eins

  N24 produced news for these third-party channels.

• Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen

  Daily breakfast television produced by subsidiary Maz & More TV Produktion GmbH for Sat.1.

• Echt Gold – Mein Magazin

  Daily program produced by Maz & More TV Produktion GmbH for Sat.1.

1. 1N24 Media - Wikipedia (German)de.wikipedia.org
2. 2N24 Media - Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Official websiten24media.de
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