In the year when RTL celebrates its 20th anniversary, parliamentary elections in 2024. on RTL they brought a series of novelties so that viewers and users of RTL’s online platforms could enjoy all aspects of the holiday of democracy.
RTL Danas hosted representatives of the five main political options in Croatia in the studio on election night. Right next to Ivan Brkić Tomljenović, Damir Gregoret and Adriana De Vrgnu they welcomed the first results of the exit polls and commented on them. RTL thus brought the first reactions of the most relevant political options in the country, and then the announcements from the election headquarters started. More than 15 reporters reported tirelessly during the stormy election night, and the information received in the RTL studio with Ivana Brkić Tomljenović was commented on by RTL’s expert commentators. Krešimir Macan and Mate Mijić. Due to the parliamentary elections, the celebrated one returned to the field Andrija Jarakwho, for the purposes of RTL’s election program, spoke from the headquarters of the Rijeka pravde coalition.
Before the parliamentary elections, every day Damira Gregoret, Adrian De Vrgna and Ivana Brkić Tomljenović led debates with representatives of the most relevant political options in Croatia, and users could follow their expert analyzes with RTL Detektor on the portal danas.hr. Legal experts, as well as those from the world of economics and foreign policy, analyzed what was said in the debates, and all unclear and inaccurate information was explained and corrected in order to provide viewers with relevant, accurate and objective data necessary for a clear understanding of what the political options offer. RTL thus brought the concept of fact-checking into the television space during the parliamentary elections. Viewers had the opportunity to watch the best of the dynamic debates from Monday to Thursday after RTL Direkt, and the election edition of RTL Direkt on Fridays with Damira Gregoret and her guests in the weeks before the parliamentary elections brought the most important moments of the exciting political race.
RTL Detektor is an exemplary example of the great synergy of television and the team on RTL’s online platforms. Five-minute video presentations of individual parties and a podcast with RTL’s expert commentators Krešimir Macan and Mata Mijić contributed to RTL’s great results on all online platforms. RTL’s livestream of the election on YouTube was the most watched, and the Danas.hr portal grew 121% on the day of the election compared to the previous Wednesday, which represents the highest growth among all the news sections of the most visited portals in Croatia.
“This year, we not only have parliamentary, European and presidential elections, but we are also celebrating 20 years of RTL’s existence on the media scene in Croatia. We have always tried to push the boundaries and bring something new. This time, on election night, we succeeded for the first time in studio to bring representatives of the most relevant political parties who met the results of exit polls in front of our cameras – it was not easy for them because they were on the lists themselves. We introduced RTL Detektor – a fact checking format in which our reporters analyzed what was said with leading experts of all profiles in the debates and who stuck to the facts, and who they were not close to. RTL is the only Croatian television station to which the prime minister gave major interviews before the start of the never-before-strained campaign Plenković and the president Milanović. Our news team has once again shown that nothing is impossible, we never play it safe and we are not afraid to change and set trends. Viewers can expect that from us in the future as well,” concluded the editor-in-chief of RTL’s news program about the successful election program. Željka Marijanović.
