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Media in North Rhine-Westphalia

NRW is Germany's leading media location and one of the most rapidly developing media regions in Europe. There are over 52,000 media and communications companies based in the state at present, providing employment for around 366,000 people. The sales generated in NRW total around 121 billion euros – considerably more than in any of the other federal states. While most federal states are leaders in one particular industry, as a media location NRW stands on a broad, future-oriented foundation which is very strong in many media segments: One third of the TV minutes produced in Germany come from NRW. With the Cologne-based TV stations RTL (the largest private German broadcasting station) and WDR (the largest broadcasting company within the ARD) the state is one of Europe's leading TV locations. In addition, with DuMont Schauberg, Mediengruppe RP and WAZ Group, three of the six largest German regional newspaper publishers are based here.

Also in the digital media environment, NRW is the preferred location of various leading companies from the segments online/web, mobile and games (e.g. Electronic Arts, simfy.de, Ubisoft). And not least the top industry events and leading trade fairs taking place in the state such as dmexco, gamescom and medienforum.nrw underline the leading role of the media state NRW.

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