MUMBAI: First CBS exited from its three channel joint venture with the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) late last year. Now the television giant RTL Group and RBNL have decided not to continue with the joint venture that the two had set up to run the male-skewed action channel Big RTL Thrill. RBNL has stepped in and bought out RTL’s holding as a consequence.
RTL – owned by German media behemoth Bertelsmann - had got into bed with RBNL in May 2011, with the Big RTL Thrill channel launching in November 2012. The content for the same had been acquired from international production majors such as FremantleMedia, Endemol, Red Bull, along with a library of international action films. Amongst the key shows which ran on the channel figured: Fear Factor, Cobra 11, Criss Angel, Wipe Out and Baywatch.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/5511-cq-rtl-reliance-broadcast-terminate-big-rtl-thrill-joint-venture.html
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