| General info : | | Rai is the shortened business name used by Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane), Italy's national public broadcasting company, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
RAI operates many DVB and Sat television channels and radio stations, broadcasting via digital terrestrial transmission (15 television and 7 radio channels nationwide) and from several satellite platforms.
It is the biggest television broadcaster in Italy and competes with Mediaset, and other minor television and radio networks.
RAI has a relatively high television audience share of 33.8%.
RAI's broadcasts are also received in neighboring countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican City, Switzerland, and Tunisia, and elsewhere on cable and satellite. Sometimes Rai 1 was received even further in Europe via Sporadic E until the digital switch off in July 2012.
Half of RAI's revenues come from broadcast receiving licence fees, the rest from the sale of advertising time.
In 1950, RAI became one of the 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union. | |
| Source : | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI) | |
| Websites | | http://www.rai.it/ (www.rai.it/) | |
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