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Elke Walthelm

Elke Walthelm has been with Sky Deutschland since 2005. After holding various management positions, she became Executive Vice President Content in February 2016. In 2020, she was appointed to the company’s Management Board and also took on the role of Managing Director of NBC Universal Global Networks Germany. Since October 2023, Elke Walthelm has been Chief Operating Officer of Sky Deutschland, responsible for programming, technology, content operations and human resources.

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RTL Group is a leading entertainment company across broadcast, streaming, content and digital, with interests in 74 television channels, seven streaming services and 40 radio stations. The Group’s families of TV channels are either number one or number two in five European countries, while RTL Group owns or has interests in radio stations in France, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. RTL Deutschland is the Group’s largest business unit and Germany’s leading entertainment company, operating across TV, streaming, radio, digital and publishing. RTL Group’s streaming services include RTL+ and WOW in Germany, RTL+ in Hungary, and M6+ in France. Fremantle is one of the world’s largest creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content, and is responsible for more than 11,000 hours of programming per year, alongside an international network of teams operating in 28 countries. The streaming tech company Bedrock, the ad-tech company Smartclip and the social media company We Are Era are also owned by RTL Group. As a market leader, RTL Group strives to foster alliances and partnerships within the European media industry, for example by building a one-stop advertising sales house in Germany with Ad Alliance and driving international advertising sales with RTL AdAlliance. Bertelsmann is the majority shareholder of RTL Group, which is listed on the Luxembourg and Frankfurt stock exchanges and in the MDAX stock index.

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