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Encyclopedia > Rai Tre
Rai Tre
Launched December 15, 1979
Owned by RAI
Audience share 10,59% (Prime time of Dec '05, [1])
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Formerly called Rete 3 (until 1982)
Website www.raitre.rai.it
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue PAL, in Italy. Normally tuned on channel 3
Digital DVB-T (on RAI Mux A), in Italy
Satellite
Analogue Not available
Digital DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard during some events) on Hotbird, Astra and Atlantic Bird

Rai Tre is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre (amongst others). Rai Tre first started transmissions on December 15, 1979. Its programs are typically oriented to information, rather than entertainment, and they look for a qualitative approach, instead of seeking higher TV ratings. Rai Tre is a left-wing oriented tv. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Prime time is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Analog television encodes picture information by varying the voltages and/or frequency of the signal. ... Television encoding systems by nation PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. ... DTT is an LGV training company incoporating training schools across the UK. It is the largest national LGV training school and has recently floated on the stock exchange. ... DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC... Mediaguard is a conditional access system for digital television developed by SECA (Société Européenne de Contrôle dAccès), which has since become Nagra France. ... Hot Bird is the common name of a family of 5 satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13 degrees East over the Equator (orbital position) and transmitting in free-to-air towards 98 million households in Europe, North Africa &, the Middle East. ... SES Astra SA, a subsidiary of SES Global, is a Luxembourg-based (in Betzdorf) corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Atlantic Bird is the name for a set of satellites operated by Eutelsat operating over the Atlantic Ocean. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rai Uno is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. ... Rai Due is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai Uno and Rai Tre. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...

Contents

Programs

News

  • TG3, Rai Tre main news service directed by Antonio Di Bella
  • TGR (Regional news service, directed by Angela Buttiglione)
  • Ballarò, weekly magazine hosted by Giovanni Floris
  • Primo Piano, daily magazine of TG3 hosted by Maurizio Mannone
  • TeleCamere, about daily affairs and health, hosted by Anna La Rosa

Shows

  • Blob
  • Blu Notte - Misteri Italiani
  • Che tempo che fa, hosted by Fabio Fazio
  • Chi l'ha visto?, hosted by Federica Sciarelli
  • Cominciamo Bene, hosted by Fabrizio Frizzi and Elsa Di Gatti
  • Elisir, hosted by Michele Mirabella
  • Fuori Orario - Cose (mai) viste
  • Gaia, hosted by the geologist Mario Tozzi
  • Geo & Geo, hosted by Sveva Sagramola and Francesco Petretti
  • Mi manda Raitre, hosted by Edoardo Vianello
  • Ombre sul Giallo, hosted by Francesca Leosini
  • La Grande Storia
  • Parla con me
  • Report
  • Un Giorno in Pretura

Series

  • La Squadra
  • Un Posto al Sole

Game Shows

  • Per un pugno di libri

Children

  • Il trenino Thomas

External link

  • Official Site (Italian)
Television stations in Italy
Broadcast national networks
RAI group: Rai Uno | Rai Due | Rai Tre
Mediaset group: Canale 5 | Italia 1 | Rete 4
Telecom Italia Media: La7 | MTV Italy
L'Espresso: All Music TV
Other: 7 Gold | SAT2000 | Odeon TV
Digital Terrestrial channels
RAI group: RaiNews 24 | Rai Sport Satellite | Rai Utile | Rai Doc-Futura | Rai Edu 1
Mediaset group: Boing | Media Shopping | Mediaset Premium
Telecom Italia Media: La 7 Cartapiù | La7 Sport | QOOB TV
L'Espresso: Repubblica RadioTv
Other: Sportitalia | Sport Italia Live 24 | SitCom Uno
Satellite and cable platforms
SKY Italia

  Results from FactBites:
 
RAI at AllExperts (731 words)
RAI has the highest audience share (43%) of any public service broadcaster in Western Europe, because the only serious competitor on Italian television is Silvio Berlusconi's media conglumerate Mediaset with a 44% market share.
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".
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