The Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG) and RTL Nederland are partly owned (20 % and 26 %, respectively) by the investment company Talpa Media/Cyrte of John de Mol, ex-chairman of endemol. Another investment company, Mecom, owns 87 % of the shares in Koninklijke Wegener. SBS Nederland is partly owned (57 %) by the investment companies Permira and KKR.
In the Netherlands, there are no examples of broadcasting companies that are also active in the newspaper market. The reverse, however, does occur: TMG controls 87.5 % of the Sky Radio Group (four radio stations) and De Persgroep was already the owner of radio Q Music even before it took over PCM Uitgevers. In fact De Persgroep was compelled to sell the papers it had acquired through PCM (NRC Handelsblad/ nrc.next) when the Dutch Competition Authority judged that De Persgroep, as a result of the take-over, stood to have too large a market share (>33 %) in Amsterdam and the region around it.
There are two more examples of diagonal concentration involving a publisher and a broadcaster in the same group as well as an investment company as the largest shareholder. FD Mediagroep comprises both Het Financieele Dagblad and BNR Nieuwsradio, controlled (98 %) by HAL Holding. And NRC Handelsblad/nrc.next were taken over (2010) by egeria and the shareholders of the television channel Het Gesprek. The bankruptcy of the channel in the summer of 2010 had no impact on the newspapers.
