RTL Nieuws is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 television news service produced by RTL Nederland

RTL Nederland

RTL Nederland is a subsidiary of the RTL Group. The media company is located in Hilversum. Although the licences of it tv-stations RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8 are officially Luxembourgish, the company targets the Dutch market...

. The national and international news service produces 17 bulletins each weekday and six weekend bulletins for RTL4 and RTL7, reaching a total audience of about 1.5 million people. With the evening broadcast sometimes reaching over 2 million viewers.

RTL Nieuws' main competitor is NOS Journaal, broadcast by the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , English: Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation, is one of the broadcasters in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system...

 (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) for public service television and radio. RTL co-operates primarily with the Flemish

Flemish Region

The Flemish Region is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. Colloquially, it is usually simply referred to as Flanders, of which it is the institutional iteration within the context of the Belgian political system...

 commercial television channel VTM

Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij

vtm or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij is the main commercial television station in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium.It went live in 1989 and quickly became the Flemish market leader...

 and RTL Germany for international news coverage.

Bulletins

On weekdays, at 6:45am and on the hour and half hour between 7am & 9am, RTL Onbijtnieuws (RTL Breakfast News) bulletins are broadcast on RTL4. An hourly daytime service of 15-minute bulletins airs on RTL7 between 9am and 5:30pm, featuring business news round-ups from RTL-Z. The 4pm bulletin is also broadcast on RTL4.

Seven days a week, three evening bulletins air on RTL4 in the form of a short 6pm bulletin, a main evening 20-minute programme at 7:30pm and a 10-minute late night bulletin at varying times. The Sunday edition of the 7:30pm news also features a short review of the past week's events.

In addition, RTL Nieuws produces an hourly daytime service called RTLZ on RTL7 combining news bulletins and business & financial updates on weekdays. A topical magazine programme, Editie NL, is also broadcast each weekday evening on RTL4.

Current presenters

Presenter	Working since	Presenting since	Broadcasts
Margreet Beetsma	2007	2007	Editie NL
Reinier van den Berg	1989	1989	RTL Weather
Wilson Boldewijn	2007	2007	relief Editie NL
Suzanne Bosman	1999	1999	Eveningnews
Sanne Boswinkel	2005	2005	Daytimenews
Roelof Hemmen	1993	2001	Eveningnews (since 2003)
Jan de Hoop	1989	1989	Breakfastnews
Hella Hueck	2003	2008	RTL Z
Marc de Jong	1992	2010	relief RTL Z
Roland Koopman	1990	1999	RTL Z (since 2001)
Daphne Lammers	1995	2004	Editie NL, Sundaynews & relief Eveningnews (since 2011)
Jeroen Latijnhouwers	1997	1997	Editie NL (since 2003)
Helga van Leur	1997	1997	RTL Weather
Diana Matroos	1999	2004	Daytimenews
Rick Nieman	1991-1992, 1996	1996	Eveningnews (since 1998)
Antoin Peeters	2001	2002	Sundaynews & relief Eveningnews
Margot Ribberink	1993	1993	RTL Weather
Margreet Spijker	1998	1999	Eveningnews (since 2010)
Sanne Steusel	2011	2011	relief Breakfastnews & relief Editie NL
Peter Timofeeff	1996	1996	RTL Weather
Roderick Veelo	2005	2005	RTL Z
Dennis Wilt	2008	2008	RTL Weather
Femke Wolthuis	2002	2003-2011	Breakfastnews
Peter van Zadelhoff	2008	2008	RTL Z

Correspondents

Politics

• Jos Heijmans

• Frits Wester

National

• Reinoud Broekhuijsen
• Jaap van Deurzen
• Betty Glas
• Hella Hueck
• Rick Konijnenbelt

• Daphne Lammers
• Marcel Maijer (Sports)
• Antoin Peeters
• Sandra Schuurhof (Royalty)

International

• Jeroen Akkermans (Germany & Eastern Europe)
• Silvia Brens (Turkey, Greece & Balkan)
• Tim Dekkers (Australia & New Zealand)
• Ruud Elmendorp (Africa)
• Roel Geeraedts (Israel & the Middle-East)
• Nina Jurna (Surinam & Latin America)
• Vanessa Lamsvelt (United Kingdom & Ireland)

• Arthur de Leeuw (Africa)
• Erik Mouthaan (North America)
• Pauline Valkenet (Italy, Malta & Vatican City)
• Stefan de Vries (France)
• Marije Vlaskamp (South-East Asia)

Former international correspondents

• Reinoud Broekhuijsen (Russia)
• Conny Mus
  Conny Mus
  Coenraad Willem Mus was a Dutch journalist, best known as a correspondent for RTL Nieuws in Israel and the Middle East.-Biography:...
  
   (Israel & The Middle East)

• Max Westerman (Germany & Eastern Europe (1989–91), USA & Canada (1991–2006))