Rai Teche
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| Founded | 1995 |
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Area served | Italy |
| Parent | RAI |
Rai Teche is a company which manages all archived material produced and broadcast by the Italian national public broadcaster RAI throughout its history.
History
The company, originally called Teche e servizi tematici/educativi RAI, was formed in 1995 to catalogue and preserve all materials documenting the history of Italian television from over 20 different channels.[1]
In 1999, the old databases were merged and a multimedia catalogue of all broadcasts from the three main channels was published online, along with more than 300,000 hours of historical TV material, prior to the launch of the online radio station in 2000.
Thematic channels were also introduced on digital terrestrial television, with access to the catalogue being limited to those within the company. The content is comprised of all aired material, including that to which Rai Teche does not have the rights. In February 2014, Rai’s board of directors authorised high-quality digitalization of the historical archives.
Rai Teche published a 500-page large-format volume titled RicordeRai documenting 50 years of broadcasting. The RAI ERI edition line of books covered the revival of L'Approdo, a radio show broadcast from the Rai phonology studio in Milan, and another broadcast titled Chiamate Roma 3131. The first episodes of Radio Rario and an analytic book about tv quiz games were also included in the series. Rai Tech made a considerable contribution of material to the exhibition 1924–2014 la Rai racconta l'Italia, which opened on January 31, 2014 inside Rome's Vittoriano.[2]
In March 2014, as a result of the anticipated retirement of Barbara Scaramucci, Rai’s director, Luigi Gubitosi was assigned as her ad interim replacement. In July 2014, the board of directors appointed Maria Pia Ammirati as the new director of Rai Teche.
Consultation
The full catalogue can be accessed by citizens in the library of the viale Mazzini in Rome, in the Bibliomediateca Rai at the Rai Teche production centre in Turin, and in all of Rai's regional offices.[3] In collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, 4 terminals have been installed in the Mediateca Braidense of Milan, located within the former church of Saint Teresa, in the Discoteca di Stato, and in the library of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.[3] Since June 2018, there are now also two terminals available in the Biblioteca universitaria di Pavia.
Students, researchers, teachers and anyone requiring material for non-profit events or celebrations are able to make requests to Teche customer service, located in Rome.[3] The material is also sold by Rai themselves.
Teche's website does not show the complete catalogue of the archives, but only the information on how to access them, as well as chronologies of TV programmes and a selection of audio and video clips which recreate the history of Italian radio and TV. The website shows a complete collection of Radiocorriere TV from 1925 to 1995, and a collection by the magazine L'Approdo letterario.
The material is featured on Rai Storia and is used by many thematic channels and companies websites via Rai's generalist channels. Programmes based on archives like Techetechetè (aired since 2012), also use the content, as well as the web radio station Radio Techetè.
References
- ^ Franco, Renato (20 July 2018). "Teche Rai, restauri e digitalizzazioni fanno rinascere gli archivi televisivi". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "1924–2014 LA RAI RACCONTA L'ITALIA". MiBACT (in Italian). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "Chi siamo". Rai Teche (in Italian). Retrieved 25 January 2019.
Bibliography
- Scaramucci, Barbara; Ferretti, Claudio (2003). RicordeRai: 1924/1954/2004. Rome: Rai Eri. ISBN 8839712747.
- Millecanali (supplement to), La storia della radio e della televisione, Cinisello Balsamo, Gruppo Editoriale JCE, 2004.
- Scaramucci, Barbara; Del Pino, Guido (2006). Come si documenta la TV. Rome: Rai Eri. ISBN 8839713964.
- Porcelli, Filippo (2007). Schegge: La TV dopo la TV. Il Saggiatore.
External links
- "Rai Teche – L'archivio della Rai con un click!". www.teche.rai.it (in Italian).
- "Bibliometria L'archiviazione delle fonti audiovisive" (PDF) (in Italian).