RTL Club is a French-language Belgian television channel based in Brussels and owned by

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until 31 March 2022. The channel is transmitted in Belgium and Luxembourg. The channel is targeted to young audiences in the morning and to adults in primetime. Its programming consists of cartoons and children’s series and cartoons in the morning and sports and American series in the evening. Until 28 March 2023, the channel was known as Club RTL. On 1 February 2016, the channel ceased airing its main animated series ''

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'' due to low ratings (2% share), whose French dub has been airing on the series for twenty years. The show moved to

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. At the time, RTL Belgium renegotiated with the production company every year to broadcast at least 150 old episodes. RTL Belgium was acquired by

. RTL Belgium channels ended their Luxembourgish status in March 2023 to become fully Belgian, and thus lost their terrestrial licence in Luxembourg and ceased their transmission from the Dudelange transmitter on 29 February 2024. The Belgian RTL channels were also transmitted in the Flemish pay DTT through the Antenne TV service from

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, from December 2017 until 1 September 2024. Club RTL logo

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Club RTL
Bertelsmann subsidiaries French-language television stations in Belgium Mass media in Luxembourg RTL Group Television channels and stations established in 1995 Television channels in Belgium Television in Luxembourg {{belgium-tv-stub