| RaiNews 24 |
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| Launched |
26 April 1999 |
| Owned by |
RAI |
| Audience share |
- (, ) |
| Country |
 Italy |
| Website |
www.rainews24.rai.it |
| Availability |
| Terrestrial |
| Analogue |
PAL, in Italy (over night only) |
| Digital |
DVB-T (on Mux Rai B), in Italy |
| Mobile |
Not available |
| Satellite |
| Analogue |
Not available |
| Digital |
DVB-S on Hotbird |
| SKY Italia |
Channel 506 |
| Cable |
| Web streaming |
Live |
| ADSL |
Not available |
| Optical fiber |
|
RaiNews 24 is an Italian digital television channel, broadcast via satellite and DTT technology. The creation of a public channel all-news, anticipated of the Service Contract from RAI and the "Ministero delle comunicazioni", the Italian Minister of Communications, is in action from 26 April 1999, with the creation of RaiNews 24, a channel inspired to CNN and BBC News 24. The new channel experiments an innovative model that combines television, internet and digital technologies: significative was the choose of multi-screen format, as the large use of connections in video conference with correspondents and experts. To receive the contents of this news channel 24 hours a day with news bulletins of 15 minutes every half-hour and others 15 minutes of journalistic close examinations about actuality or general news, from the other the weather or economy, it needs the satellite (reception from Hotbird 13° East) or DTT receiver (reception only in Italy); RaiNews 24 is available also via internet streaming and on Rai Tre from 3 am to 8 am. The streaming internet service uses the proprietary format WMV. To reduce the number of bits needed to the coding of the signal, the screen was divided in some windows and the moving signal occupies less than half total pixels, while the other parts of the screen contained what time is in that moment, the titles of the main news, the internet sites where you can deepen the various news and the logo of the program on air in that moment. The research of the separation from narration of the news and opinions about them is one of the strongest point of this channel and often are broadcast videos without oral comment, but only some subtitle; all for the purpose to do not influence the viewer. In the last two months of 2005 the channel has realized various scoops about the Iraq war, knowing about the use of particular arms like white phosphorus or napalm from the American armed forces and the behaviour in war of some Italian soldiers in Nassiriya. From November 2006, when the Italian journalist Corradino Mineo became chief of the television, the channel use a new graphic, similar to SKY TG24.
Directors of Rai News 24
- Roberto Morrione (from 1999 to 2006)
- Corradino Mineo (from 2006)
Programmes
- Notiziario (every half-hour)
- Meteonews24 (every half-hour)
- Notizie dal CCISS viaggiare informati (every half-hour)
- L'analisi
- Dentro la notizia
- Italia, Istruzioni per l'uso on air from RAI Radio1
- Focus
- Shownet
- Backstage
- America Today
- Next
- Riflettendo con...
- USA 24 H (News from the United States)
- Superzap (News bulletins from the major non-Italian News televisions, like BBC World, CNN International and Al Jazeera)
- repliche TG Regione (Regional news bulletins, on air also on Rai Tre)
- repliche TG (TG1, TG2, TG3, the news bulletins of Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre)
- ShowBiz
- Decoder. Le immagini che fanno notizia (Images with subtitles in Italian)
- Il chiosco. Rassegna stampa italo-araba, in collaborazione con UNIMED Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo
Journalists
- Maurizio Torrealta
- Claudia Origlia
- Sigfrido Ranucci
- Piero Di Pasquale
- Ivana Suhadolc
- Giovanna Tatò
- Marco Silenzi
- Roberto Amen
- Novella Calligaris
- Marco Dedola
Websites
