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24-779: The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier in Ravensburg , a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany . He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first board game appeared in 1884, named Journey Around the World . At the turn of the 20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, art instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families , and activity kits. In 1900,

48-563: A hand truck for transportation. Ravensburger has since released larger puzzles, with their largest being "Memorable Disney Moments" and "Making Mickey Magic" having 40,320 pieces each, however they have also since lost the world record to a 51,300 piece puzzle released by Kodak . Swedish toy train company BRIO was acquired by the Ravensburger Group on 8 January 2015. In 2017, Ravensburger acquired American game company Wonder Forge. The company's North American division, Ravensburger NA,

72-511: A German broadcaster and an over the top platform company. With the announcement of the launch of a free-to-air German version of Disney Channel causing a loss of Disney programming, Super RTL signed volume deals in October 2013 with Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution and Sony Pictures Television for a slate of animated features and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) for 1,200 hours of programming until 2020. The DWA deal included shows from

96-613: A Germany-wide roadshow event for children, was started in 1997 featuring TV program characters. The tour was later renamed the Toggo Tour. The following year, the channel became the top view channel by the 3-to-13-year-old target age group. In 1999, the joint venture saw its channel make a net profit of DM 4.5 million, launched its website and started the Super RTL Licensing Agency to make more revenues from TV licensing. A new managing director, Claude Schmit, took charge of

120-534: A bridge-in-gap between Toggolino and Toggo, airing programs aimed at both demographics. A subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service that was launched on 28 April 2015. It features children's shows from DreamWorks Animation , Studio Hamburg , ZDF Enterprises , HIT Entertainment , BBC Studios and German publishing house Tessloff Verlag . On 15 March 2016, it was announced that a timeshift service, Toggo Plus , would launch on 4 June 2016. The channel transmits Toggo and Toggolino's programs one hour later. Unlike

144-434: A game publishing arm. Today there are approximately 1800 available books and 850 games as well as puzzles, hobby products, and CD-ROM titles at Ravensburger and its subsidiaries, which include Alea for "hobby and ardent game players" and F.X. Schmid for games, playing cards and children's books. Ravensburger products are exported to more than fifty countries. Under the label F.X. Schmid , Ravensburger produces one of

168-627: A standalone Toggo branded network, subject to approval. On 18 September, it was announced that the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) had blocked the Nickelodeon channel deal. Super RTL's broadcast day is split between three different umbrella brands. From 3 June 2001 until 2005, Super RTL also ran another block titled Ravensburger TV . Operated by RTV Family Entertainment (now Your Family Entertainment), this block aired for two hours every day except for Saturdays, and functioned as

192-517: Is aimed at pre which is aimed at pre-schoolers, Toggo (9:00am-8:00pm), which is aimed at children, and RTL Super (8:00pm-12:00am), which is aimed at families and young adults. On 24 August 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg 's resignation, a reorganization of Disney Company took place in which Richard Frank became head of newly formed Disney Television and Telecommunications (DTT) , which included Walt Disney Television International, which held Disney's Super RTL stake. The Luxembourgish CLT (owners of

216-719: Is based in Seattle, Washington and releases approximately 25 games per year, the most successfully of which so far is Villainous , based on various Disney properties. Ravensburger NA sold about 3 million copies of games in 2018. Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH was a video game and software subsidiary of Ravensburger which published and distributed various games in Germany . The company had two brands; Ravensburger Interactive, which published family-friendly games and educational software, and Fishtank Interactive , which published games for mature players. In May 2002, Ravensburger Interactive

240-516: The Classic Media library. The channel also acquired programming to expand its views in the evenings with more adult TV shows to debut in its fall 2014 schedule: ABC Family 's Pretty Little Liars , ABC's Once Upon a Time and Scandal and Syfy's Lost Girl supernatural series. As of 1 January 2014, Disney programming left the channel, because the broadcast version of Disney Channel launched on 17 January. However, Disney continued to hold its stake in

264-536: The "Ravensburger" brand. The company launched a Ravensburger TV block on Super RTL in June 2001. In 2005, Ravensburger sold all their shares in the business, and in mid-2006, the company rebranded as Your Family Entertainment AG . Games sold under the "Ravensburger" imprint: Games sold under the "Alea" label: Games sold under the F.X. Schmid label: Games sold under the "Ravensburger Digital" label: Ravensburg Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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288-675: The German RTL channel) made a deal with Disney to form RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co. in 1995. Super RTL was finally launched on 28 April 1995, with The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as its first ever program (aside from showing Disney Channel 's "TV" ident, Super RTL is not owned by Disney Branded Television , instead, it was owned by Disney's Buena Vista International Television Investments division). The Disney-CC/ABC merger led to DTT being split up in April 1996, Walt Disney Television International

312-710: The Ravensburger blue triangle trademark was registered with the Imperial patent office . As of 1912, many board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to Western Europe and the countries of the Danube Monarchy as well as Russia . Before the First World War , Ravensburger had around 800 products. The publishing house was damaged during the Second World War but continued to produce games in

336-763: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 754083656 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:43:38 GMT Super RTL Super RTL is a German free-to-air television network owned by RTL Deutschland . The channel originally launched in 1995 as a joint venture between RTL Group predecessor company CLT-UFA and Disney's Buena Vista International Television Investments (later Disney International Operations) division. The channel airs daily from 5:00am-12:00am under three different programming slots; Toggolino (5:00am-9:00am), which

360-559: The end of July 2023, it was announced that Super RTL would be renamed to "RTL Super" in the middle of August 2023. However, it was later confirmed that only Super RTL Primetime would rebrand under the name, and that the existing Super RTL channel wouldn't be affected. On April 24, 2024, Super RTL entered into a new major partnership with Paramount Global to secure a new free-to-air broadcast deal for Nickelodeon programming in Germany, and to fully acquire Nickelodeon Germany and replace it with

384-621: The only two packs of true Tarock cards in Germany: a 54-card pack of the Bourgeois Tarot pattern with genre scenes and used for playing the game of Cego , popular in the Black Forest region. In September 2010, Ravensburger broke the world record for the largest jigsaw puzzle, with one designed by late pop artist Keith Haring titled "Keith Haring: Double Retrospect". Built from 32,256 pieces, it measured 17' × 6' (5.18 m x 1.82 m) and came with

408-493: The station. RTL Disney TV LP launched its Kividoo subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services on 28 April 2015. In February 2016, RTL Disney Television LP received approval for a second channel from the anti-media concentration commission KEK. granted the 10-year license to the company. On 15 March, RTL Disney TV announced that the second channel's name as "Toggo plus" after receiving the broadcast license from media authorities' licensing and supervision commission ZAK. Toggo Plus

432-571: The television businesses of UFA to form the joint venture CLT-UFA in April 1996. A merger agreement was signed on 8 July 1996. It was approved by the CLT board of directors on 5 December, and the formation of CLT-UFA was completed on 14 January 1997. As a result, German television channels such as RTL Television, Super RTL and VOX and international broadcasting services, including M6 in France, were all brought together under one roof. The Fun & Action Tour,

456-568: The venture in 2000. Also in 2000, the preschool programming is labeled "Toggolino". Toggolino Club is started in 2002 and offers paid pre-school children education content. The Toggo umbrella brand was introduced in 2001 for all activities for 6- to 13-year-old children. In 2002, Sony BMG label, Berlin Records, released the first Toggo Music CD. SuperRTL began using the 'Family Cartoon' rating label in 2006 for family viewing suitable animated films shown on Friday and Saturday night. In 2005, Super RTL

480-578: The years of the reconstruction. The company focused on children's games and books and specialized books for art, architecture, and hobbies, and from 1962 grew strongly. The company started to produce jigsaw puzzle games in 1964, and in the same year opened subsidiaries in Austria , France , Italy , the Netherlands , Switzerland and the United Kingdom . In 1977, the company split into a book publishing arm and

504-420: Was granted a broadcast license for the preschool pay-TV channel Toggolino TV by the government media regulators for young children between the ages of 3 and 6. However, Toggolino TV was never launched. Bertelsmann turned over the learning platform Scoyo to Super RTL in 2009. In mid-2013, Super RTL, RTL II and four other RTL channels were available over Zattoo live streaming service under the first deal between

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528-452: Was planned to launch on 4 June 2016. Super RTL continued to expand its Toggo brand with plans to launch Toggo Radio channel, the first German children and family friendly channel, at the end of May 2020. On March 3, 2021, the RTL Group announced they had fully acquired Disney's stake in the station and the limited partnership, putting Super RTL under its full control for the first time. At

552-454: Was sold with Fishtank Interactive to JoWooD Productions . Ravensburger Film + TV GmbH is a former motion picture and television subsidiary of Ravensburger. In late 1998, Ravensburger split off Ravensburger Film + TV as a separately operated company and was renamed to RTV Family Entertainment AG . Ravensburger remained a shareholder in RTV, holding 90% of its shares, and continued to license

576-541: Was transferred to Capital Cities/ABC in that same month. CC/ABC combined the international units, Walt Disney Television International and ACIBG, into Disney–ABC International Television (DAIT) in July. Around the same time, in the 1990s, Bertelsmann ultimately came out on top after having gradually increased its stake in the German television channel RTL. Following a legal dispute with RTL/CLT, Bertelsmann announced plans to merge

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