{"id":482610,"date":"2026-05-13T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482610\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:16:21","slug":"fremantle-q1-revenue-stable-as-clement-schwebig-begins-rtl-ceo-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482610\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Q1 Revenue Stable As Clement Schwebig Begins RTL CEO Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFremantle<\/a> posted stable first quarter revenues of \u20ac372M ($436M), as its parent company RTL<\/a> saw new CEO Cl\u00e9ment Schwebig begin his role.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe number Holey Moley maker Fremantle put out was essentially the same as Q1 2025 (\u20ac373M). RTL said that without negative foreign exchange rate Fremantle\u2019s revenues would have grown 4.2%, primarily thanks to grown in the U.S., where the production giant had previously seen slips.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn April, Fremantle unveiled a global production hub for ABC game show\u00a0Holey Moley in Portugal and launched music-based game show\u00a0Hitster\u00a0in territories including Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. That came after Fremantle struck a deal to stream\u00a0American Idol\u00a0live on Disney+ alongside ABC\u2019s network broadcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tToday\u2019s news came as former Warner Bros. Discovery exec Schwebig began his role as CEO, replacing the long-serving Thomas Rabe. He was announced as successor<\/a> late last year, with Rabe leaving his roles at both RTL and its parent, Bertelsmann.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchwebig\u2019s reign starts with RTL posting stable group revenues of \u20ac1.3B, essentially the same as last year. Within that digital advertising grew 14.6% to \u20ac118M, which compensated for TV ad revenues falling 45%. Overall, revenues were down 3.2%.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreaming revenue was another bright spark, rising 27% to hit \u20ac141M, driven buy more paying subscribers, higher subs costs in Germany and \u201crapidly\u201d growing ad revenues on German streamer RTL+ and M6+ in France.<\/p>\n

\n\tRTL didn\u2019t provide EBITA numbers, but noted the streaming business will turn profitable this year and that its overall 2026 full-year adjusted profit is looking at coming in around \u20ac725M, up from \u20ac661M in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes as RTL gears up to complete its \u20ac150M deal to buy Sky Deutschland on June 1, combining two of Germany\u2019s biggest TV players.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first three months of 2026 marked the first profitable quarter of our streaming business,\u201d said Schwebig. \u201cWith all streaming performance indicators growing \u2013 from revenue to paying subscribers and viewing time \u2013 we are confident that our streaming services will generate an operating profit of \u20ac25M to \u20ac50M for the full year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt the same time, we continue the expansion of our streaming footprint through partnerships with HBO Max in Germany and Amazon Prime Video in France, a compelling pipeline of local and international content and, above all, with the combination of RTL and Sky in the DACH region.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs I assume the role of RTL Group\u2019s CEO, I look forward to working with our excellent management teams and colleagues across the Group to further accelerate our transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle posted stable first quarter revenues of \u20ac372M ($436M), as its parent company RTL saw new CEO Cl\u00e9ment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[6738,18,117,37984,19,17,46410,128],"class_list":["post-482610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-earnings","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fremantle","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rtl","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116567460280412768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}