RTL Group announced the appointment of Gabriella Vidus (39), currently General Manager of RTL Hungary’s advertising sales house R-time, as the new Chief Executive Officer of RTL Hungary with immediate effect.

In addition, RTL Hungary’s Programming Director Péter Kolosi (43) has been promoted to Deputy CEO of RTL Hungary, also with immediate effect. In the new position, he will remain responsible for the programming of RTL Hungary’s family of channels, including the market-leading flagship channel RTL Klub and the seven cable channels for Hungarian-speaking audiences.

Andreas Rudas, who had taken over the management of RTL Hungary as Interim CEO in March 2015, will continue to serve as Chairman of the company’s Board, as part of his responsibilities as RTL Group’s Executive Vice President Regional Operations & Business Development CEE and Asia.

Andreas Rudas: “Gabriella Vidus has been instrumental in making our family of channels the clear market leader in the Hungarian advertising market and in transforming our sales house R-time into an efficient and flexible service provider. She is deeply familiar with RTL Group, our management culture and the international TV industry. Her vision and dynamic leadership make her an excellent choice to open a new chapter in RTL Hungary’s growth story. I congratulate Péter Kolosi on his promotion to Deputy CEO. With his programming skills and sense for new trends, he has been a key force in growing our audience leadership and building a strong, highly complementary family of channels. I am delighted we can appoint such a young and dynamic leadership duo from our local management team.”

Gabriella Vidus has been responsible for developing and implementing the advertising sales strategy of RTL Hungary, as well as the third-party channels represented by R-time, since 2008. Having begun her career as a client service manager at TV2/MTM-SBS in 1997, she became Head of Sales at RTL Klub in 2002. Since the creation of R-time in 2004, her tasks have also included leading its sales team and dealing with partners such as AXN (Sony Television) and Discovery Channel.

Péter Kolosi started his career in 1994 as a reporter, senior editor and presenter on several programmes on Magyar Televízió. He has been working for RTL since the launch of RTL Klub, RTL Group’s first channel in Hungary, in September 1997. He joined as Editor in chief and presenter of the daily magazine show, Fókusz, and became Programming Director in July 2001. He is also responsible for PR and Communications at RTL Hungary, and has been a member of the RTL Hrvatska Supervisory Board since March 2013.