Rai 3

Rai 3
TV station ( public service )
Program type	Full program
reception	Cable , satellite & DVB-T
Image resolution	( Entry missing )
Start of transmission	15th December 1979
Intendant	Luigi Gubitosi
Program director	Andrea Vianello
List of TV channels
Website

Logo until May 2010

Rai 3 (until May 2010 Rai Tre ) is the third Italian television program that belongs to the public service Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI). The broadcast began on December 15, 1979 (at that time rete 3 ("Netz 3") of the RAI). The audience success was low at the beginning. The initial focus was on cultural topics, analogous to the 3rd radio program radio 3 of the RAI. Under the leadership of Angelo Guglielmi and Alessandro Curzi (PCI member), the program developed politically to the left in 1987, which earned it the nickname Telekabul (in reference to the then communist Afghanistan). Union topics and reports of strikes were frequent headlines in the news. During this time, the RAI 1 program tended to be a mouthpiece for the Democrazia Cristiana (and the Catholic Church); RAI 2 was generally considered to be PSI- friendly. Some RAI 3 programs addressed controversial issues as part of investigative journalism. In 1999 the program was restructured; the political orientation to the left weakened significantly.

Rai Tre is the only Rai TV channel that offers local coverage tailored to the Italian regions (comparable to the German federal states). The focus is (as of 2006) also educational programs, sports broadcasts as well as talk and quiz shows. During a live interview during the 2006 election campaign, Silvio Berlusconi described the channel as a “ channel infiltrated by the left ” and as a “ war machine ” targeting him and his government.

Throughout Europe, the program (like the other RAI programs as well) can be received unencrypted via the Hotbird satellite with a receiver.

program

Information broadcasts

• TG3
• TG3 linea notte
• TGR (regional news, separate news programs for each of the 20 Italian regions ; there is also the Tagesschau in German and TRaiL in Ladin for South Tyrol and TDD in Slovenian for Friuli-Venezia Giulia )
• Ballarò
• Primo piano
• Doc3
• report
• TeleCamere
• Presa Diretta
• TGR Buongiorno Italia
• TGR Buongiorno Regione

Shows

• Agorà
• Blob
• Blu Notte - Misteri Italiani
• Che tempo che fa
• Chi l'ha visto?
• Cominciamo Bene
• Cose dell'altro Geo
• Elisir
• Gaia
• Geo & Geo
• La Grande Storia
• Mi manda Raitre
• Parla con me
• Super curd
• Un Giorno in Pretura
• Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
• Vieni via con me

Series

• La Squadra
• Un Posto al Sole
• A case for two
• Desperate Housewives
• La strada per la felicità - Paths to happiness

Movie

• Fuori orario. Cose (mai) viste (nightly program with films outside the mainstream , introductory commentary by the film critic Enrico Ghezzi)

Web links

• RaiTre
• “This is a war machine!” Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Angry Berlusconi leaves the TV studio