Tewes succeeded Johannes Züll, who left the RTL Group to become president and CEO of Studio Hamburg.

Following a proposal from Tewes, Ivan Lovreček, former editor-in-chief and member of the executive board of RTL Hrvatska, was promoted to deputy CEO of the company on 1 July 2014.

[8] Hosted by Antonija Blaće, the special series looked back on the most memorable moments in RTL's history.

[8] Along with HRT and Nova TV, RTL is one of the three networks that air the largest amount of original television programming in Croatia.

[10] As of April 2015, a 30-minute late-night news program titled RTL Direkt airs Monday to Thursday, usually around 22:15 CET.

[11] Although Direkt mostly recaps political and other events featured in RTL Danas, it also focuses on covering popular culture, an example being a special episode aired 13 May 2024 which was dedicated to the review of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.

[12] Direkt usually features guests, varying from political persons, celebrities, experts in certain fields and other notable people.

[16] RTL also aired Croatian iterations of other popular dating series such as Brak na prvu (Married at First Sight) and Gospodin Savršeni (The Bachelor).

[18] In 2013, RTL aired an original cooking reality series format titled Tri, dva jedan - peci!

[22] During this period, Spanish-language telenovelas were also popular on the channel, including Dame Chocolate (2007) and El Rostro de Analía (2008–2009), until Turkish series such as Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011–2014) took over in the early 2010s.

Before launching RTL Kockica in 2014, the channel also focused on programming for children, airing animated series every day in the morning.

Croatian dubs of series such as Ben 10 (2005–2008), Dexter's Laboratory (1995–2003), PopPixie (2011), Strawberry Shortcake (2003), and Trollz (2005) premiered on RTL.

The Croatian dub of SpongeBob SquarePants (2000–) also originally premiered RTL, before the series was moved to Nickelodeon with its Croatian-language audio launch in 2011.

The channel occasionally featured a programming block titled Disney dan (transl.

[citation needed] RTL Televizija occasionally also broadcast boxing bouts and the highlights of the Red Bull Air Race events.

They also bought the TV rights for all the matches of the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship, which was held in Croatia.

A paid Play Premium option was also available; it featured access to locked content and programming exclusive to the service, such as new episodes of the scripted drama series Krv nije voda.