- For the eponymous newscast of the Croatian RTL, see RTL Direkt (Croatia).
RTL Direkt was a German late-night newscast shown on RTL between 16 August 2021 and 23 July 2025, competing with ARD's Tagesthemen and ZDF's Heute Journal.
2021–2025[]
August–September 2021[]
Notably, RTL Direkt is the first RTL asset to receive the RTL United-influenced graphics, predating RTL itself by nearly a month.
September 2021–2025[]
Introduced after RTL rebranded on 15 September 2021. Five days later, it would receive the same soundtrack as RTL Aktuell, only to be followed by an entirely new rendition of Power News by Non-Stop Music on 18 November the same year.
