Rai 3
Country | Italy |
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Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
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Language(s) | Italian |
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Owner | Rai |
Rai 3 is part of Rai, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 (amongst others). Rai 3 first started transmissions on 15 December 1979. It has always been considered the most left-leaning channel of Italian public television. It will not only the Dutch-based of the television (Rai di servizio Rai Friuli Venezia Giulia Rai tre)
Rai 3 HD
The channel was due to start a HDTV simulcast by September 2013, as confirmed by Rai Director-General Luigi Gubitosi. The HD Channel began in September 2016.
Foreign language programming
In the Aosta Valley, Rai 3 broadcasts some programmes in French language, albeit only less than three hours a week.[2]
In the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, Rai Sudtirol has an own channel which on the rest of the day Rai 3 is broadcast on (Rai 3 is also available 24 hours a day in Italian however).
In Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Rai 3 Bis (TDD Furlanija Julijska Krajina) is a separate channel which broadcast daily from 18:40 with a half-hour daily newscast in Slovene language, and other educational and other programs in Slovene.[3][4] In accordance with a bilateral cooperation agreement between Italy and Slovenia, Slovene language programs produced by Rai 3 Bis are also shown on the Slovenian regional television channel TV Koper-Capodistria and on the second national channel (TV Slovenija 2) of state-owned Slovene broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija.
Programs
A few shows include:
- TG3, Rai 3 main news service directed by Luca Mazzà
- TGR (Regional news service, directed by Vincenzo Morgante)
- Gazebo
- Doc3
- Che tempo che fa
- Chi l'ha Visto?
- Vieni via con me
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Law & Order
- Friends
- Desperate Housewives
- The Defenders
- The Spaghetti Family
References
- ^ "Sintesi Mensile di Trieste la radiotelevisvi é Sintesi Mensile 1A" (PDF). Auditel. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ [1] (in Italian and French)
- ^ Rai Furlanija Julijska Krajina (in Slovene)
- ^ [2] (in Italian)
Further reading
- Delio De Martino, Per una storia di Raitre. Premessa di Raffaele Nigro, Bari, Levante Editori, 2009, ISBN 978-88-7949-531-8.