Coordinates	33°51′35.9″N151°12′40″N
company name	RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.
company logo
company type	Government-owned corporation
genre	Italian Public Broadcasting Service
foundation	1924 as URI
founder	Italian Government
location city	Viale Mazzini 14, Rome|
location country	Italy
location
revenue	€3210,9 million (2008)
num employees	11698 (2008)
divisions	Rai CorporationRai WaySipraRai TradeRai InternationalRai NetRai OnRai TecheRai EriRai CinemaRai FictionRai EducationalRai VaticanoRai QuirinaleRai SportRai 1Rai 2Rai 3
owner	Italian Ministry of Economic Development
slogan	''Rai, di tutti di più''
homepage	rai.it rai.tv
footnotes	}}

RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana, known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI is the biggest television company in Italy. It competes with three major private television companies, Mediaset, Telecom Italia Media, and Sky Italia.

Rai operates many television channels and radio stations, broadcasting in analog terrestrial (until 2013), in digital terrestrial and in several satellite and IPTV offerings. RAI is one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.

Half of RAI's revenues come from the broadcast licence fee, half from advertising. RAI has a relatively high audience share of 42.3%.

Due to their close proximity, Albania, Switzerland, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Vatican City, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia also receive broadcasts.

History

Origins

RAI started off as a privately owned company. The ''Unione Radiofonica Italiana'' (URI) was formed in 1924 by private entrepreneurs and part of the Marconi group. Granted a monopoly of radio broadcasts in 1924, ''URI'' made its first broadcast — a Haydn quartet — on the 24 October of that year. ''URI'' was developed under the Italian Postal and Telecommunications Code. This code indicated that broadcast services belonged to the state, which, at that time, was the commission of ''Unione Radiofonica Italiana'' for a minimal of six years. However when the ''URI'''s contract was up, it was succeeded to 1927 by ''Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche'' (EIAR) who later was renamed to ''Radio Audizioni Italiane'' (RAI) in 1944. For the next twenty years, RAI had made several expansive changes to their company as the market developed such as extending their charter to include television in 1952 and undergoing their final name change as ''Radiotelevisione Italiana'' in 1954.

In this year the state-controlled holding company IRI became the sole shareholder, and RAI finally began a regular television service. On January 3 at 11:00 CET, the first RAI television announcer announced the daily scheduling from the Milan office and the relay stations in Turin and Rome. At 14:30 started the first regular programme in the Italian television history: ''Arrivi e partenze'', hosted by Armando Pizzo and Mike Bongiorno. The first evening show was a theatre performance, written by Carlo Goldoni: ''L'osteria della posta''. At 23:15 was introduced the last the program of the day: ''La Domenica Sportiva'', a soccer television program.

Parts of the early programming were focused on educational content: during the reconstruction following World War II, programs like ''Non è mai troppo tardi'' and ''Un viaggio al Po'' made people see what life was like in other parts of Italy, in a time when tourism was out of the reach of the vast majority of the population.

2000s

A very controversial plan to partly privatise RAI, by selling 20% of the public broadcaster, was suspended in October 2005.

The fact that the Berlusconi-led government pushed for the sale of Mediaset's public service rival caused a very heated debate, with some critics claiming that Mediaset could become the buyer and thus increase its dominant position even further. However, in October 2005 it was announced that the privatisation plan had been suspended, following the revelation that the company would make a loss of €80m ($96m, £54m) during 2006. "RAI's privatisation is ''de facto'' suspended", its new director general, Alfredo Meocci, told a parliamentary watchdog committee. On May 18, 2010, Raisat received a major upgrade and re-branded with a new logo and a new name. It and all of the sister channels dropped the ''sat'' part from the name and became Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai 4, Rai 5, Rai Gulp, Rai YoYo, Rai Sport 1, Rai Sport 2, Rai News, Rai Sender Bozen, Rai Storia, Rai Premium, Rai HD, Rai Movie. Visible only on satellite television: Rai Nettuno Sat 1, Rai Med, Yes Italia and Rai Scuola.

Management

RAI is governed by a nine member Administrative Council. Seven of its nine members are elected by a parliamentary committee, the remaining two (one of which the President) are nominated by the largest shareholder: the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The Council appoints the director-general. Both director-general and members of the administrative council are appointed for a renewable term of three years.

Notes: : Second term. : Temporary. : Vice Director-general acting as Director-general.

Television

RAI broadcasts three main terrestrial channels, also available on satellite television. Rai 1, the main channel, targets the family market. Rai 2, that has broadcast since November 4, 1961 as the "Secondo Programma", has in recent years lacked clear focus, but now attempts to focus on a slightly younger audience than Rai 1. Rai 3 (on air from December 15, 1979 as "TV3") is the ‘alternative’ channel, with a definite public service remit and local programmes. Rai 1 and Rai 2 started full-time color broadcasting on February 1, 1977.

Terrestrial channels

''Analog and digital terrestrial channels:''

Rai 1

Rai 2

Rai 3

Rai Sender Bozen: in German, only in the province of South Tyrol few hours a day

Rai Radio TV Ladina: in Ladin, only in the province of South Tyrol and in the northern parts of the province of Belluno for few hours a day

''Digital-only channels:''

Rai 4: general entertainment

Rai 5: cultural entertainment

Rai Premium: tv series

Rai News: all news channel

Rai Gulp: kids and teens

Rai Yoyo: babies

Rai Sport 1: sport channel

Rai Sport 2: sport channel

Rai Storia: educational and cultural

Rai HD: HDTV channel

''These channels are also available on Tivù Sat platform.''

Satellite channels

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''Free-to-air:''

* Rai 1 ''(partially crypted)''

* Rai 2 ''(partially crypted)''

* Rai 3 ''(without local programmes and partially crypted)''

* Rai Nettuno Sat 1: higher education

* Rai News

* Rai Scuola

* Rai Storia

* Rai Med: news and entertainment in Italian language

* [[Camera dei Deputati (TV channel)

* [[Yes Italia: Italian culture channel for foreigners and Italians living abroad

''Free-to-view on Tivù Sat platform:''

* Rai 4: TV series and entertainment

* Rai 5: cultural entertainment

* Rai Movie: movies

* Rai Yoyo: babies

* Rai Premium: tv series

''These channels are also available in analog switch-off areas.''

IPTV channels

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	''On TV di FASTWEB''	* Rai On Cultura	* Rai On Fiction	* Rai On Fiction Live	* Rai On News	* Rai On Ragazzi	* Rai On Spettacolo	* Rai On Sport

International

Rai Italia: broadcasts the best of RAI to International audiences

Discontinued channels

RaiSat Album (30 July 2003)

RaiSat Art (30 July 2003)

RaiSat Fiction (30 July 2003)

RaiSat Smash Girls (1 August 2009)

RaiSat Gambero Rosso Channel (1 August 2009)

Rai Azzurri: UEFA Euro 2004 (2004, broadcast using ''Rai Olimpia / Rai Utile'' frequencies)

Rai Doc: cultures, styles (1 June 2007)

Rai Futura: technologies, games, etc. (1 February 2007, broadcast on the same frequences of ''Rai Doc'' at settled times)

Rai Olimpia: 2004 Summer Olympics (2004, broadcast using Rai Utile frequencies)

Rai Utile (1 January 2008)

Rai Widescreen: 1998 FIFA World Cup (1999)

Radio channels

Rai Radio 1: News/information

Rai Radio 2: Adult Contemporary

Rai Radio 3: classical music

Rai FD4 Leggera: easy listening music, also known as IV Canale

Rai FD5 Auditorium: classic and opera music, also known as V Canale or Classica

Rai GR Parlamento: broadcasting the Italian Parliament

Rai Isoradio: for motorway users

Rai Sender Bozen: in German, only in the province of South Tyrol

Radio Trst A: in Slovene, only in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Notturno Italiano: for the Italian communities in the EU

Rai Italia Radio: International radio service that broadcasts 'best of RAI' abroad.

Radio Rai Sport: Web Radio

Rai Webradio 6: "Radioscrigno"

Rai webradio 7: "Napoli canta"

Rai webradio 8: Webradio

News

TG1

TG2

TG3

Rai Parlamento

TGR

*GR Regione (Radio, Local)

GRR (Radio)

*GR1 (on Rai Radio 1)

*GR2 (on Rai Radio 2)

*GR3 (on Rai Radio 3)

Rai News

Logos

1957–2000	2000–2010	2010-

See also

Television in Italy

Television licensing in Italy

Digital terrestrial television in Italy

Prix Italia

Footnotes

External links

http://www.rai.it/

http://www.rai.tv/

Rai on YouTube

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{{infobox radio station | name

Rai Radio 2 | image | area Italy - National FM, DAB & DVB-T and Satellite | airdate October 6, 1924 | airdate Disputed, between 1933 and 1934 | frequency FM several frequencies, change from geographical side to sideSKY Italia Channel 762Alice Home TV Channel 771| | format talk, contemporary music | owner RAI | sister_stations ''Rai Radio 1'', ''Rai Radio 3'' | webcast Real Media | website http://www.radio2.rai.it/ }}

:''This article is about the Italian radio station Radio 2. For other radio stations of that name, see Radio 2.''

Rai Radio 2 is an Italian radio station operated by public broadcasting company RAI, specialising in talk programs and popular music. It is likely to have started its operations in late 1933, when the Turin local airing station was activated.

It is among the Italian radio stations with highest audience share; its main show in terms of success, ''Viva Radio2'', is hosted by popular comedian and TV/radio personality Fiorello together with Marco Baldini. Other popular shows are ''Il ruggito del coniglio'', ''Caterpillar'' and ''Condor''; the radio station, in common with other RAI stations, also includes its own ''Giornale Radio'' (radio news program), ''GR2''.

Logos

2000–2010	2010–present

External links

Rai Radio 2 at rai.it Rai Radio 2 at rai.tv

Category:Free-to-air Category:Cable radio Category:Radio stations in Italy Category:RAI radio stations

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Radio 2 may refer to:

BBC Radio 2, a British national music radio station

RTÉ 2fm, an Irish music radio station originally known as Radio 2

Radio 2 (Australia): an Australian radio station

Radio 2 (Belgium), a Belgian radio station

CBC Radio 2, a Canadian radio station

Radio 2 (Netherlands), a Dutch radio station

Rai Radio 2, an Italian radio station

CyBC Radio 2, Cyprus national radio

Radio Dos, a Costa Rican radio station

Radio 2, a UAE English music radio station covering Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the northern Emirates

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Coordinates	33°51′35.9″N151°12′40″N
name	Luca Barbarossa
background	solo_singer
birth date	April 15, 1961
origin	Rome, Italy
genre	Pop, Rock
occupation	Singer
website	Luca Barbarossa
current members	}}

Luca Barbarossa (born 15 April 1961, Rome) is an Italian singer-songwriter who has released 12 albums since 1981, and is known for his participation in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.

Early career

In 1980, Barbarossa won the Castrocaro Song Festival, where he was spotted by a producer for the Fonit-Cetra record company, who signed him to a recording contract. As the Castrocaro winner, he was eligible to compete in the 1981 San Remo Festival, where he finished fourth with the self-penned song "Roma spogliata". His first self-titled album was released in the same year, and he toured as support act to Riccardo Cocciante. The album, and the singles released from it, were not notably successful and relations soured with Fonit-Cetra, leading to Barbarossa's departure from the label. He signed with the Italian division of the CBS label, where the decision was taken to try to establish him as a singles artist before releasing an album. In 1986, he again participated in the San Remo Festival with "Via Margutta", but only managed 18th place. Another San Remo entry in 1987 resulted in ninth place for "Come dentro un film", which was also the title of the first album he released for CBS in the same year. He achieved his best San Remo placement to date in 1988 with "L'amore rubato" finishing third.

Eurovision Song Contest

In 1988, Barbarossa was chosen by broadcaster RAI as the Italian Eurovision representative with the song "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" ("Alive (I Write to You)"). He went forward to the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, held on 30 April in Dublin, where "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" finished in 12th place of 21 entries.

Later career

Barbarossa won the 1992 San Remo Festival at his fifth attempt with "Portami a ballare", a song dedicated to his mother. In the 1990s he released four studio albums and a live album. In 1996 another San Remo entry with "Il ragazzo con la chitarra" placed 12th. A compilation album of his most popular songs, with two previously unreleased tracks, was issued in 2001.

Barbarossa's final San Remo participation to date came in 2003, with "Fortuna" finishing 10th. He released an album of the same name that year, before putting his recording career on hold for four years. He returned with a single, "Aspettavamo il 2000" in 2007, before releasing ''Via delle storie infinite'', his first album for five years, in 2008.

San Remo Music Festival entries

1981: "Roma spogliata" - 4th

1986: "Via Margutta" - 18th

1987: "Come dentro un film" - 9th

1988: "L'amore rubato" - 3rd

1992: "Portami a ballare" - 1st

1996: "Il ragazzo con la chitarra" - 12th

2003: "Fortuna" - 10th

2011: "Fino in fondo" - 8th

Albums discography

1981: ''Luca Barbarossa''

1987: ''Come dentro un film''

1988: ''Non tutti gli uomini''

1989: ''Al di là del muro'

1992: ''Cuore d'acciaio''

1993: ''Vivo''

1994: ''Le cose da salvare''

1996: ''Sotto lo stesso cielo''

1999: ''Musica e parole''

2001: ''Viaggio di ritorno''

2003: ''Fortuna''

2008: ''Via delle storie infinite''

2011: ''Barbarossa Social Club''

References

External links

Official website (Italian)

Myspace page

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Coordinates	33°51′35.9″N151°12′40″N
birth date	November 09, 1974
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Giovanna Mezzogiorno (born November 9, 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, November 9, 1974, daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set, conscious about acting. At first she wanted to become a ballerina and she studied dancing for 13 years. She is an atheist.

Early years

After her father's death when she was 19, Mezzogiorno moved to Paris where she attended the stages by Arianne Mnouchkine and worked for two years at the Peter Brook Workshop (author of The Mahabharata). She made her stage debut with the role of Ofelia in "Qui est là", based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The play toured various European cities. She received the Premio Coppola-Prati 1996, the jury was presided over by theatre critic Franco Quadri. One year later, she made her film debut in "Il viaggio della sposa" (The Bride's Journey), written by and starring Sergio Rubini. Mezzogiorno was awarded the Targa d'Argento as the New Talent in Italian Cinema, she was also given the Grolle d'Oro, and the Globo d'Oro by the Foreign Press Association and the Premio Flaiano as Best Actress of the 1997 - 1998 season.

Becoming a European star

In 1998 she starred in the film "Del perduto amore" directed by Michele Placido, with Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Sergio Rubini (she was awarded the Nastro d'Argento, the Ciak d'Oro and Premio Pasinetti as Best Actress in a starring role) and, for the Italian National Television Network, RaiDue, in a film made for TV "Più leggero non basta" (A lighter burden to bear) in the role of a young girl with muscular dystrophy, directed by Elisabetta Lodoli with Stefano Accorsi.

In 1999, she played the role of Silvia, daughter of Enzo Tortora by whose mistaken conviction the film was inspired. The film, "Un uomo perbene", with Michele Placido and Mariangela Melato, was directed by Maurizio Zaccaro. In that same year, she worked in Asini, directed by Antonello Grimaldi, with celebrated Italian comedian Claudio Bisio.

In 2000 she travelled between Prague and Paris for work in the film made for TV, "Les Miserables", directed by Josée Dayan, with Gérard Depardieu and John Malkovich. She worked in Denmark in Nobel, directed by Fabio Carpi, with Hector Altero. In Italy she worked with Puglielli in Tutta la conoscenza del mondo (All There Is to Know), and then, L'Ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss) directed by Gabriele Muccino with Stefano Accorsi and Stefania Sandrelli (winning the Premio Flaiano). With the success of this last movie Giovanna become really famous in Italy.

In 2001 she worked in the film "Malefemmene" with Angela Molina and directed by Fabio Conversi, in the role of Francesca, who was imprisoned following a judicial error and came into contact with the reality of friendship and attachment which she had never imagined possible. She also worked on "Stai con me", with Adriano Giannini and directed by Livia Giampalmo, in the role of a mother of twins.

In 2002 she worked on the set of "Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni", in the role of the protagonist, directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani (the film tells the tragic and dark story of the Italian TV journalist killed in Mogadiscio). She also worked in France in the TV movie Il segreto di Thomas (Daddy), directed by Giacomo Battiato, with Klaus Maria Brandauer, based on Loup Duran's best-seller. In Italy she starred in the film "La finestra di fronte" ("facing windows") directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, costarring Massimo Girotti and Raoul Bova. This film, critically acclaimed and a box office success, earned her a lot of awards: the David di Donatello, the Ciak d’Oro, the Nastro d’Argento, the Globo d’Oro by the Foreign Press, the Flaiano Award, the Karlovy Vary Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Lately she starred in the film "L’Amore ritorna", directed by Sergio Rubini, costarring Fabrizio Bentivoglio e Margherita Buy. She was also working in France, on the set of her first comedy: "Au secours, j'ai 30 ans", directed by Marie-Anne Chazel, with Pierre Palmade.

Then in 2004 Giovanna worked in the TV movie "Virginia (La monaca di Monza)", directed by Alberto Sironi. She then returned to the theatre, working with the director Piero Maccarinelli in "4.48 Psicosi", written by Sarah Kane.

An international star

In 2005 "La Bestia Nel Cuore" (Don't Tell), directed by Cristina Comencini, was an Academy Award candidate for Best Foreign Language Film and earned Giovanna one of the most important international prizes for an actress: the "Coppa Volpi", previously won by Bette Davis, Shirley MacLaine, Gong Li, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve and Sophia Loren.

Then in 2006 she acted in "AD Project", a sci-fi thriller by Eros Puglielli and acted in "Lezioni di Volo" (Flying Lessons) by Francesca Archibugi.

In 2007 she became Leila, a sexy thief in an Italian black comedy: "Notturno Bus" (Night Bus), directed by Davede Marengo and starring Valerio Mastrandrea and Ennio Fantastichini.

She travelled to Colombia to become Fermina Daza, the principal female character from ''Love in the Time of Cholera'' based on the book written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Mike Newell (''Four Weddings and a Funeral'').

After two films shot in 2008, "Sono Viva" and ''Palermo Shooting'' by Wim Wenders, in 2009 she achieved great international success with ''Vincere'' by Marco Bellocchio, selected for the official competition in Cannes and a solid candidate for the final award.

She has voiced and produced a documentary to celebrate the career of her father Vittorio, 15 years after his sudden death in 1994.

She was a member of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. In January 2011, she was rewarded with the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress 2010 for her role in ''Vincere''.

Filmography

''Il viaggio della sposa'' (1997)

''Del perduto amore'' (1998)

''Più leggero non basta'' (1999, TV movie)

''Asini'' (1999)

''Un uomo perbene'' (1999)

''Les Misérables'' (2000, TV mini-series)

''Afrodita, el sabor del amor'' (2001)

''State zitti per favore'' (2001)

''L'ultimo bacio'' (2001)

''Malefemmene'' (2001)

''Nobel'' (2001)

''Tutta la conoscenza del mondo'' (2001)

''Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni'' (2002)

''Entrusted'' (2003, TV movie)

''La finestra di fronte'' (''Facing Windows'', 2003)

''L'amore ritorna'' (2004)

''Stai con me'' (2004)

''Il club delle promesse'' (''Au secours, j'ai trente ans!'', 2004)

''Virginia, la monaca di Monza'' (2004, TV movie)

''La bestia nel cuore'' (''The Beast in the Heart'', 2005)

''Lezioni di volo'' (2006)

''Love in the Time of Cholera'' (2007)

''Palermo Shooting'' (2008)

''Vincere'' (2009)

References

External links

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