Spiegel Verlag Rudolf Augstein publishes the weekly magazines DER SPIEGEL and MANAGER MAGAZIN. Involvement in the television market started in 1988. The cooperation with the Development Company for Television Programs dctp secured fixed broadcasting slots. Since 1988, SPIEGEL TV MAGAZIN has been moderated by Stefan Aust and Maria Gresz. The success of the program, which is a television adaptation of classic SPIEGEL journalism, lead in 1990 to the establishment of SPIEGEL TV GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of the SPIEGEL publishing house. In 1991 a share was acquired in dctp. Presently there are five different SPIEGEL TV formats broadcast on VOX, RTL and SAT.1. Since 1994 SPIEGEL TV also produces the news programs of VOX and a magazine program for the Swiss station SF2. SPIEGEL TV produces more than 500 minutes of programming every week. The 140 employees of SPIEGEL TV set the standard for television journalism of the nineties - with productions that have been premiered with the Grimme Prize, the Golden Lion and numerous gold, silver and bronze medals at the New York Film Festival.

In May of 2001 SPIEGEL TV joined forces with dctp to launch the new metropolitan television "XXP-Das Informationsprogramm" in Berlin.