Broadcasting corporation South Tyrol

RAS
legal form	public law
founding	1975
Seat	Bolzano , Italy
management	Peter Silbernagl (President)
Number of employees	26 (as of March 2015)
Branch	broadcast
Website	ras.bz.it

The Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol (abbreviated RAS ; Italian Radiotelevisione Azienda Speciale , Ladin Radiotelevijion-Azienda per Südtirol ) is an institution in the Italian province of South Tyrol for the distribution of radio and television channels. The RAS does not produce its own content, but is only responsible for broadcasting foreign programs from the German and Alpine Romance cultural areas. The institute is financed with funds from the Province of South Tyrol.

history

After the RAI began broadcasting a television program in Italian on a regular basis in 1957, German- and Ladin-speaking South Tyroleans tried to receive and broadcast German television programs from abroad. This happened largely without agreement and often by means of converters and cable systems that were illegally built by private hands. Because of the monopoly of RAI in Italy at the time, many of these transmission systems were confiscated on behalf of the Ministry of Post and Communications. In 1962 the politics of the problem took on for the first time.

The Second Statute of Autonomy created the conditions for the regular broadcasting of foreign channels on Italian territory. In February 1974, the Province of South Tyrol took over 284 private systems and signed agreements with the broadcasters ORF , ZDF , SRG and ARD , which from then on gave their programs to South Tyrol free of charge. After frequency assignments, the RAS was founded on March 5, 1975 by provincial law as the public broadcasting service of the province of South Tyrol.

From 1975 to 1980 the first provisional transmitter network was set up, which was expanded from 1981 to 1994 with the construction of a third network for ORF 2, the construction of radio links and the amplification of the transmission power. A pilot project for the introduction of DAB began in 1997 for radio . For television, RAS began in 2007 with the conversion to DVB-T , which was completed in November 2009.

Since May 2010, the RAS has been distributing the programs ORF 1 HD , ORF 2 HD and ZDF HD in HDTV using the MPEG-4 codec . In addition, ARTE , 3sat and the Italian-language transmitter RSI LA 1 can be received via the 4th Mux . In November 2012, the ORF III channel and the HD offshoots of SRF 1 , SRF Zwei and Das Erste were included in the program offer.

On January 31, 2017, the RAS also switched the last digital radio programs to the new DAB + standard. This ended the parallel operation of DAB and DAB +, which had been ongoing since 2008. With the increasing spread of digital radio, DAB + will gradually replace the old VHF transmitters; at the end of 2017, the first smaller systems were switched off.

construction

RAS currently has 26 employees and operates nationwide VHF , DAB digital radio and digital television networks with 133 stations in South Tyrol.

watch TV

A RAS facility on Plan de Corones

logo	Television program	Broadcast in South Tyrol since 1	transmission	Multiplex
	3 sat	2010	DVB-T	RAS 1
	ARTE	2010	DVB-T	RAS 2
	BR television south	2009	DVB-T	RAS 2
	The first	1988	DVB-T	RAS 1
	The first HD	2012	DVB-T	RAS 4
	ZDFneo (from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.)  KiKA (rest of the time)	2009	DVB-T	RAS 2
	ORF one	1975	DVB-T	RAS 1
	ORF one HD	2010	DVB-T	RAS 4
	ORF 2 Tyrol	1988	DVB-T	RAS 1
	ORF 2 Tirol HD	2010	DVB-T	RAS 4
	ORF III	2012	DVB-T	RAS 1
	SRF 1	1988	DVB-T	RAS 2
	SRF 1 HD	2012	DVB-T	RAS 3
	SRF two	2005	DVB-T	RAS 2
	SRF two HD	2012	DVB-T	RAS 3
	RSI LA 1	2010	DVB-T	RAS 2
	ZDF	1975	DVB-T	RAS 1
	ZDF HD	2010	DVB-T	RAS 3

radio

A system of the RAS near Laion

logo	Radio program	Broadcast in South Tyrol since 1	transmission
	Bavaria 1	2003	DAB +
	Bavaria 2	2004	DAB +
	Bayern 3	1997	DAB +
	BR home	2015	DAB +
	BR classic	1997	DAB +
	B5 currently	1997	DAB +
	Deutschlandfunk culture	2008	DAB +
	Deutschlandfunk Nova	2017	DAB +
	FM 4	2004	DAB +
	Ö 1	1980	analog / DAB +
	Ö 2 - Radio Tirol	1976	analog / DAB +
	Ö 3	1976	analog / DAB +
	Rai Radio 1 2	1997	DAB +
	Rai Radio 2 2	1997	DAB +
	Rai Radio 3 2	1997	DAB +
	Rai South Tyrol 2	1997	DAB +
	Radio Rumantsch 3	1989	analog / DAB +
	Radio Swiss Classic	2013	DAB +
	Radio Swiss Jazz	2004	DAB +
	Radio Swiss Pop	2013	DAB +
	RSI Rete Due	2013	DAB +
"	WDR KiRaKa	2013	DAB +

¹ official broadcast by the RAS

²The program is distributed nationwide in cooperation with the Rai via an ensemble of the RAS. The analog broadcast lies with the Rai itself

³ analog broadcast only in Vinschgau and in the Ladin-speaking areas

The VHF chains reach 99.8% (exception: Radio Rumantsch 9.8%) of the South Tyrolean population, DAB ensembles 99.3% and the DVB-T multiplexes 99.4%.

Shared use

The antenna carriers and transmission systems erected by the RAS are also expressly to be used by other broadcasters as well as private and public radio services. So that u. a. so-called "wild mast growth" can be avoided.

Other activities

The RAS is also entrusted with other projects that help improve basic media services. She works with other local telecommunications companies.

Previous projects:

• Establishment of the Population Information System (BIS) to quickly inform the population in the event of a disaster
• Broadband 1st lot (broadband connection of 14 municipalities)
• Broadband 44 (broadband connection to another 44 municipalities)
• Mi-friends (EU research project to promote DMB )
• Coverage of remote areas with mobile and data communications that are still undersupplied

Transmitters

Together with RAI, RAS operates a largely area-wide DAB +, FM and DVB-T network in South Tyrol. The following are the systems that cover the area from Brixen to Brenner :

• Transmitter Plose
• Sender Albeins
• Franzensfeste transmitter
• Sender Flans
• Transmitter Freienfeld
• Transmitter Eisack Valley
• Gossensass transmitter
• Transmitter burner

Basic network transmission systems of the RAS:

• Transmitter Plose ,
• Penegal transmitter (main transmitter of the RAS),
• Transmitter courage ,
• Sender Sankt Martin am Kofel ,
• Transmitter Upper Venosta Valley ,
• Transmitter Freienfeld ,
• Transmitter Kronplatz ,
• Transmitter Luttach ,
• Meransen transmitter ,
• Transmitter San Candido ,
• Sarnthein transmitter ,
• Sender Kematen ,
• St. Gertraud transmitter ,
• St. Pankraz transmitter ,
• Transmitter Val Gardena ,
• Transmitter Gardena Pass ,
• Abbey transmitter ,
• Enneberg transmitter ,
• Sender Laag ,
• St. Leonhard transmitter in Passeier
• Transmitter high disc

Other transmission systems

• Welschnofen transmitter ,
• Transmitter cardoon ,
• Sender Tiers ,
• Transmitter Graun ,
• Langtaufers transmitter ,
• Melag transmitter ,
• Sender Aberstückl ,
• Antholz Mittertal transmitter ,
• Transmitter Asten ,
• Transmitter Auen ,
• Transmitter Durnholz ,

EU-funded transmission systems

• Schwemmalm transmitter
• Fennberg transmitter
• Transmitter mud
• Rabenstein transmitter
• Jaufental transmitter
• Funders station
• Schlinig transmitter
• Blossenberg transmitter

literature

• Bernhard Dorfmann: 25 years of Broadcasting Corporation South Tyrol 1975–2000 . Edition Rætia, Bozen 2000.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organization. (No longer available online.) Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol, archived from the original on February 28, 2015 ; accessed on March 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Technical information on commissioning the new television programs. (No longer available online.) Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol, April 20, 2010, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ RAS switches from DAB to DAB +. Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol, accessed on January 20, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Fewer ultrashort waves: RAS shutdown plan approved. South Tyrolean Provincial Administration, November 14, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 46 ° 28 ′ 55.8 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 48.7 ″  E