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| RTL aktuell | |
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| Genre | News program |
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| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
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| Production location | Cologne |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Production company | RTL News GmbH |
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| Network | RTL |
| Release | 5 April 1988 – present |
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RTL aktuell is a German television news programme broadcast on the commercial station RTL. The main 20-minute bulletin airs every evening at 18:45 CET, supplemented by a breakfast news bulletin (Punkt 6, Punkt 7, and Punkt 8 formerly Guten Morgen Deutschland), a lunchtime magazine programme (Punkt 12), a daily short news programme in the afternoon (RTL News), a news magazines (RTL Direkt) and a late night bulletin (RTL Nachtjournal). Weekend bulletins are branded as RTL aktuell Weekend.
RTL aktuell was launched in 1988 as the direct replacement for 7 vor 7, and since 11 September 2010 it is broadcast in HD.