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DPG Media and Rossel negotiated with RTL (as part of the acquisition agreement) for a name licensing agreement, valid for 10 years shortly after the deal took place, with an option for renewal after the agreement is up. Renaming RTL-TVI to VTM Belgique is not an option for DPG, given RTL-TVI is, by far and as long as records have been kept, the most-watched local channel in French-speaking Belgium. Additionally, VTM and RTL-TVI have differing programming, schedule and editorial styles.

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Here's the open of the new RTL Info.

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Visually, it looks much closer to its Flemish sister VTM. Worth noting that a rendition of Michel Legrand's RTL jingle is absent for the first time since 1995.

Leaving RTL Luxembourg and the RTL radio service in France the only ones to carry the historic jingle.

Actually, Bel RTL still uses that historic jingle as top of the hour, even if their visual/sound identity and content has started to get even more separate to that of the French RTL.