Country | Italy |
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Broadcast area | Worldwide |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Italian |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | RAI through Rai Internazionale |
Sister channels | Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai 4, Rai 5 |
History | |
Launched | 1 January 1992 |
Former names | Rai International (1992–2008) |
Links | |
Website | www.raitalia.it |
Rai Italia is the international Italian language television service of Rai Com, a subsidiary of RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. Rai Italia operates a television network that broadcasts around the world via four localized feeds. Programming features a mix of news, discussion-based programs, drama and documentaries as well as sports coverage.
The broadcast of the signal, sent from the Saxa Rubra television production center in Rome, is broadcast through several satellite, cable, IPTV and OTT platforms, as a paid service in the Americas, Africa and Australia while in Asia it is a FTA channel.