RTL (Hungary)

:This article is about the commercial TV channel in Hungary. For other uses, see RTL. The channel's former name is not to be confused with RTL Club, a French-language TV channel in Belgium.
RTL, originally known as RTL Klub from 1997 to 2022, is the most popular TV channel in Hungary and the flagship channel of RTL Magyarország. It was launched on 7 October 1997 with experimental broadcasts, only to begin official broadcasts twenty days later, on 27 October that year. It began broadcasts only 3 days after its leading competitor TV2.
It is complemented by sister channels RTL Kettő and Cool TV, among others, that primarily compete with TV2, SuperTV2 and other channels of TV2 Csoport, as well as Antenna Group’s Viasat3.
==RTL Klub==
===1997–2022===
====1997–2005====
====2001–2005 (secondary), 2005–2017 (primary)====
====2017–2022====
==RTL==
===2022–present===
On 2 September 2022, it was confirmed that all RTL-branded channels of RTL Magyarország would be rebranded and thus have their names changed, including RTL Klub which changed its name to simply RTL at 20:41 CET on 22 October 2022.
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