Rete 4
Launched	January 1982
Owned by	Mediaset S.p.a.
Audience share	8,05% (Prime time of Dec '05, [1])
Country	Italy
Website	www.rete4.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue	PAL, in Italy.
Digital	DVB-T (on Dfree Mux), in Italy
Satellite
Analogue	Not available
Digital	DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard 2 during some events) on Hotbird
SKY Italia	Channel 104

Rete 4 (also known as Retequattro) is an Italian television station belonging to the Mediaset network. It's an Italian private/commercial TV channel. The news bulletin editor, since foundation in 1992, is a famous Italian journalist named Emilio Fede who is also well known for his right-wing leaning political ideals, especially in favour of Silvio Berlusconi, main shareholder of Mediaset. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Mediaset is an Italian commercial television network. ... Prime time is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Analog television encodes picture information by varying the voltages and/or frequency of the signal. ... For other uses, see PAL (disambiguation). ... 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. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. ... Mediaset is an Italian commercial television network. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Emilio Fede (right) with Silvio Berlusconi. ...   (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ... Mediaset is an Italian commercial television network. ...

Rete 4 is sometimes considered an illegal network, due to the case of the Europa 7 Italian network, wich in 1999 got the licenses to broadcast on the frequences of Rete 4 (causing it migration to satellite television), but never could broadcast to some save-laws (later considered unfair and uncostitutional) of Berlusconi's government (note that Berlusconi is the owner of the Mediaset Group, wich Rete 4 belongs to). Up to now, Europa 7 is continuing its battle for its broadcasting rights, and may start broadcasting on mid 2008, hypotised time of migration of Rete 4 on digital satellite and terrestrial television.

Programs

TV Series

Note: All are imports from the United States.

• 24
• Detective Monk
• The West Wing
• Walker, Texas Ranger

24 (twenty four) is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. ... Monk is an Emmy Award winning television show about the private detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), afflicted by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and multiple phobias. ... The West Wing is a popular and widely acclaimed American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin and produced and co-written by John Wells. ... Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television western/police dramatic series, created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. ...

Culture

• La Macchina del Tempo (translation: The Time Machine)
• Sai xChé? (translation: Do you know why?)
• Appuntamento con la Storia (translation: Date with history)
• Solaris
• Forum

Soap Operas

• Guiding Light (it: "Sentieri")

Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975, GL) is an American television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television history. ...

Telenovelas

• Cuore Selvaggio ("Corazón salvaje")
• Terra Nostra

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News

• TG4
• Top Secret

External links

• Official Site (Italian)