Meteo Rai (Weather)

Dallas (TV series) - shown on RAI Sat Premium

The Late Show with David Letterman — shown on RAI Sat Extra

Rai Sport on YouTube

Isoradio - a radio station designed for motorway users

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — shown on RAI Sat Extra

GR Parlamento - a radio station broadcasting the Italian Parliament

Sanremo Music Festival (Festival della canzone italiana)

RAI International — Broadcasts the best of RAI to International audiences

GR Regionale (Radio Local News broadcasting)

DS - Domenica Sportiva and 90° minuto (90th minute) sport programming blocks shown on Saturday and Sunday respectively on Rai Tre and Rai Due. 90th minute deals with Italian Serie B, the second Italian football (soccer) championship.

Domenica In — Sunday show (Rai Uno) hosted by Pippo Baudo, Lorena Bianchetti, Massimo Giletti and Luisa Corna.

Rai Edu 2 (only on Hotbird)

List of Italian language television channels

Rai Radio Due - Adult Contemporary

Rai Radio Uno - News/information

Rai Radio Tre - Classical

RaiSat Extra entertainment

Rai Utile information (also on DTT and on satellite)

Prix Italia

Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana, known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane,^[1] is the Italian public service broadcaster. It operates three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels, in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings. Created as URI in 1924, it started television broadcasts on January 3, 1954. RAI was one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. A very controversial plan to partly privatise RAI, by selling 20% of the public broadcaster, was suspended in October 2005. Half of RAI's revenues come from the broadcast licence fee, half from advertising.^[2][3] RAI has a relatively high audience share of 43,55%^[4]. The fact that Berlusconi's government pushed for a sale of Mediaset's public service rival had caused a very heated debate, with some of the 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. [1] [2] RAI broadcasts three main terrestrial channels: Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre.

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. In 1927, URI was renamed Ente Italiano Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR). It survived until 1944 when, under Allied pressure, it was reborn as Radio Audizioni Italiane, or RAI. Still a privately owned company, it operated two radio networks: Rete Rossa (red) and Rete Azzurra (blue), with Rossa playing more serious music and Azzurra featuring occasional variety shows. It was not until 1954 that RAI took on its modern form. In this year the state-controlled holding company IRI became the sole shareholder, and RAI finally began a regular television service. The first day’s schedule featured a report on the opening of RAI’s studio in Milan, sporting events of the day, and an early evening film. The first few decades of programming were focused on strictly educational programming. During Reconstruction, programs like Non è mai troppo tardi and Un viaggo al Po were able to take people from their villages and small communities and see what life was like in other parts of Italy. The dialects of Italy also made it difficult for people to communicate, so RAI was instrumental in building a national, common language.

RAI broadcasts three main terrestrial channels. Rai Uno is the main channel, and targets the family market. Rai Due has in recent years lacked clear focus, but now attempts to focus on a slightly younger audience than Rai Uno. Rai Tre is the ‘alternative’ channel, with a definite public service remit. Rai Due has been broadcasting since November 4, 1961 (it was called the "Secondo Programma", while Rai Uno was the "Programma Nazionale") and Rai Tre first went on air on December 15, 1979 as "TV3".

Rai Uno (also on DTT and on Hotbird, Astra, Atlantic Bird and Hispasat)

Rai Due (also on DTT and on Hotbird, Astra, Atlantic Bird and Hispasat)

Rai Tre (also on DTT and on Hotbird, Astra, Atlantic Bird and Hispasat)

Rai Sender Bozen (German-language opt-out of Rai Tre for the province of Bolzano-Bozen)

Rai News 24 all news (also on DTT and on Hotbird)

(Rai Doc disappeared in 31 May 2007)

Rai Gulp (from 1 June 2007)

RaiSat Yoyo babies (from November 2006)

RaiSat Album (30 June2003)

RaiSat Art (30 June2003)

RaiSat Fiction (30 June2003)

Rai Doc cultures, styles (31 May 2007)

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

Radio Trst A - a radio station for the Slovenian minority in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Tagesschau (German speaking news from Bolzano)

Affari Tuoi (Italian version of Deal or No Deal?) - shown every day at 8.35pm on Rai Uno. The show is hosted by Flavio Insinna.

L'Isola dei Famosi (Italian version of Celebrity Survivor shown on Rai Due on 9.00pm every Wednesday night and hosted by Simona Ventura

McLeod's Daughters - shown on Rai Uno

ER — shown on Rai Due

Friends — shown on Rai Due

The District — shown on Rai Due

Charmed — shown on Rai Due

JAG — shown on Rai Due

The Practice — shown on Rai Due

Without a Trace — shown on Rai Due

Desperate Housewives — shown on Rai Due

NCIS — shown on Rai Due

Cold Case — shown on Rai Due

Lost — shown on Rai Due

Rome — shown on Rai Due