RTL Crime (German TV channel)

RTL Crime (stylized as RTL CRIME since 15 September 2021) is a German pay television channel owned by the RTL Group. The channel was launched on 1 December 2006. Its programming is centred towards action and crime series.

RTL Crime

Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Germany Austria Switzerland
Network	RTL Deutschland
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Programming
Language(s)	German, English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	RTL Group
Parent	RTL Deutschland
Sister channels	RTL VOX n-tv Super RTL RTL Zwei Nitro RTLup VOXup RTL Living RTL Passion GEO Television RTL9
History
Launched	1 December 2006; 18 years ago (2006-12-01)
Links
Website	www.rtl-crime.de

Distribution

Since 1 October 2007, RTL Crime was launched on Sky Deutschland.^[1] On 1 September 2011, a localised feed of the channel was launched in the Netherlands.

On 15 May 2012, the channel launched its own high-definition simulcast feed, which started to be carried on Unitymedia. On 25 September 2014, RTL Crime HD was launched on Sky Deutschland.

Since 1 August 2017, the channel is also available in HD at Kabel Deutschland in the "HD Premium" package.^[2]

Programming

Source:^[3]

• Abschnitt 40 (2011-2014)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) (2014–present)
• Altes Geld (2016-2018)
• American Gods (2018–present)
• Arrow (2014–present)
• Ash vs Evil Dead (2016–present)
• Autopsy (Autopsie - Mysteriöse Todesfälle) (2009–present)
• Balko (2006-2011, 2015–2016)
• Black Mirror (2013–present)
• Born to Kill? (Born to Kill - Als Mörder geboren?) (2008–present)
• Born to Kill?: Class of Evil (Born to Kill - A Class of Evil) (2017)
• Breakout Kings (2012–present)
• Cagney & Lacey (2016–2018)
• Cold Justice: Sex Crimes (2017)
• Crimes of the Century (Ridley Scott: Crimes of the Century) (2014–present)
• Crossbones (Crossbones - Im Reich der Piraten) (2015–present)
• CSI: Cyber (2015–present)
• Death Row Stories (Death Row Stories: Geschichten aus dem Todestrakt) (2016–present)
• CSI: Cyber (2015–present)
• Deutschland 83 (2018–present)
• Dirk Gently (2012-2015)
• Forensic Files (Medical Detectives – Geheimnisse der Gerichtsmedizin) (2006-2010, 2012–present)
• From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (From Dusk Till Dawn - Die Serie) (2016–present)
• F/X: The Series (F/X - Die Serie) (2009-2011, 2013)
• Guyane (Gier - Rausch des Goldes/Ouro) (2017–present)
• Hit & Miss (2013-2016)
• Hostages (Die Geiseln/Bnei Aruba) (2017–present)
• Humans (2016–present)
• Killers: Behind the Myth (Mythos Serienkiller) (2015–present)
• King (2013–2018)
• Kojak (2005) (2007–2009)
• Liar (2018–present)
• Meadowlands (Meadowlands - Stadt der Angst) (2009-2012)
• Mörder (2015–present)
• Mr. Robot (2017–present)
• Profiler (2016–present)
• Ransom (2017–present)
• Rillington Place (Rillington Place - Der Böse) (2017–present)
• Ripper Street (2013–present)
• Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (Matrioshki - Mädchenhändler) (2009-2015)
• SK-Babies (2007-2008)
• SS-GB (2017–present)
• Stieg Larsson: Millennium (2016–present)
• The Bureau (Büro der Legenden/Le Bureau des Légendes) (2017)
• The Grid (The Grid - Netz des Terrors) (2007-2008, 2010)
• Utopia (2014–present)
• Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall (2008-2012, 2014–present)
• White Collar (2012-2017)

Audience share

Germany

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Annual average
2016[4]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017[5]	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018[6]	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019[7]	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%
2020[8]	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,0%	0,1%
2021[9]	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,0%	0,1%
2022[10]	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%	0,1%

Logos

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  November 12, 2015 – September 14, 2021
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  September 14, 2021 – present
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  September 14, 2021 – present (alternative logo)