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RTL Group Chairman Thomas Rabe has been tapped as CEO of the company following news that Bert Habets has stepped down for personal reasons.

The RTL Group’s CEO says he is confident in the group’s strengths: its financial health, its market-leading channels and nonlinear extensions, its capacity to create compelling content and its growing portfolio of digital businesses.

Sean Atkins, who formerly served as president of MTV, has been appointed as the new CEO of StyleHaul, one of RTL Group’s multiplatform networks.

RTL Group has become the largest investor in the Series A financing round of Inception, specialized in virtual reality entertainment, and will hold a 15-percent stake in the company.

LUXEMBOURG: RTL Group has decided not to exercise its option to acquire the remaining 49-percent shareholding in BroadbandTV, but rather will explore "all strategic alternatives" for the internet video company.

LUXEMBOURG: Andreas Fischer has been appointed as RTL Group’s new senior VP of business development and regional operations for CEE and Asia, succeeding Andreas Rudas.

PARIS: Guillaume de Posch, co-CEO of RTL Group, is lined up for a keynote speech at MIPTV 2016.