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Inga Leschek is joining RTL Deutschland as program managing director for RTL Television and RTL+.

RTL’s head of fiction, Philipp Steffens, is exiting the role, as the group combines the scripted teams for its linear TV channels and its streaming platform TVNOW.

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of TV Europe. As deregulation of the broadcast industry in Europe began in the 1980s, privately owned stations mushroomed across several countries. Few, if any, were as successful as what started as RTL Plus. With its tagline of “refreshingly different” programming, …