Launched April 26, 1999 Picture format 576i (SDTV) 16:9 Slogan All news. All new. | Owned by Rai Audience share 0.53% (July 2016, ) Country Italy | |
Rai News 24 is Italy's first non-stop news and information channel, broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and via satellite around Europe and North America. It is also the first Italian news channel to broadcast live all news bulletins (other channels rebroadcast them during overnight timeslots).
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History
This public all-news channel was created on April 26, 1999 thanks to a Service Contract between the Italian public television network RAI and the Italian Minister of Communications. It started broadcasting at 6am.
The news channel experiments with an innovative model that combines television, internet and digital technologies. The choice of a multi-screen format, widespread use of video conference connections with correspondents and experts, was significant. The research of the separation from narration of the news and opinions about them is one of the strongest points of this channel. Often, videos are broadcast without commentary, and only some subtitles; so as to not bias the viewer.
In the last two months of 2005 the channel has realized various scoops about the Iraq war, knowing about the use of particular arms like white phosphorus or napalm from the American armed forces and the behaviour in war of some Italian soldiers in Nassiriya. From November 2006, when the Italian journalist Corradino Mineo became chief of the television, the channel use a new graphic, similar to BBC World News, changing its old graphic which was similar to Bloomberg Television. Today the channel is seen in 24 hours from 5.9% of people in the news at 8 pm is followed by 1 million of people. In March 2012 the study will change after the change took place in December 2011 graphics it all happened due to the rapid increase in public. Mineo will be substituted within February 2013 because he launched his bid in Italian general election.
On February 24, 2013 at 7:00 am, the channel has resumed its old name Rai News24, at the same time adopting a new newsroom and a graphical slightly modified: the bumpers and graphics of the network have been updated with the new logo.
On September 27, 2015 at 5:15am, the channel has adopted a new newsroom which is generally all white and improved the graphics design.
On July 11, 2016, the channel has adopted another change in graphics. The logo has changed into a blue box as-well the bottom half of the screen at possibly 5:15am CET, and the clock is now blue at 5:30am CET. The headlines (blue bar) appear to be in a smaller size. At the right of it, there is a small orange box, featuring stock markets.
On 4 January 2017, the channel started broadcasting in HD. It also adopted new format for showing logo: it is now seen on the upper left of the screen, while before is on the upper right.
Availability
To receive the live contents of this news channel 24 hours a day with a half-hour block, which is 15 minutes of news bulletins, 13 minutes of journalistic close examinations about actuality, economy or general news and 2 minutes of national weather, it needs the satellite (reception from Hotbird 13° East and Astra 19.2° East) or DVB-T receiver (reception only in Italy); Rai News is available also on IPTV (only in Italy), on Rai 3 from 2 am to 7 am and on Rai 1 from 5.15am to 6am and also via internet streaming internationally. It is also available via Sling TV in the United States. The streaming internet service uses the proprietary format WMV. To reduce the number of bits needed to the coding of the signal, the screen was divided in some windows and the moving signal occupies less than half total pixels, while the other parts of the screen contained what time is in that moment, the titles of the main news, the internet sites where you can deepen the various news and the logo of the program on air in that moment.
Directors of Rai News
Programmes
Every half-hour, RaiNews24 provides full comprehensive updates with a 15-minute news bulletin, preceded by a national weather forecast.
Other shows:
"Pubblicità" edition
Journalists
Morning Edition (5am - 12:30pm)
Afternoon Edition (12:30pm - 5:30pm)
Evening Edition (7pm - 12:30am)
Night Edition (12:30am - 5am)
Press Review
This is also known as "Rassegna Stampa" in the Italian language. This is done late at night around 11:15pm CET and continues till about 11:50pm CET and then it moves to "Headlines" from around the world. At 00:00am (12am) CET, they do a full press review of going over the headlines that will appear in the Italy's newspapers. After the 00:00am hour, they do a 5-minute press review which mainly focus on the national newspapers. The summer editions of press review are well shorter as they do a quick 5 minutes during the 00:00am CET hour. In the world press review (known as Nel Mondo in Italian language) is done during the second half of the 7am hour at 7:45am CET. They do a press review at 7am, 8:30am and 9:30am. Weekends editions happen at 7:30am.
News from CCISS Travel Information
The program is also known as "Notizie dal CCISS Viaggiare Informati" in the Italian language. This airs throughout the day on Rai News 24 with the Italian traffic updates. It doesn't have any exactly time to broadcast.
The Economy
This is also known as "L'Economia" in the Italian language. This is done at 5:30pm CET and then after the show is over, it switches back to the news. This program talks a lot about economies such as stock markets and a few other things
Telegram
This covers a wide range of news from local, national and sports. This airs right after The Economy program at 6pm (18:00) CET.
Sport24
This shows covers all sports that are happening around the world. It also bring in guests to talk about the topic of a sport headline. This show started early March 2015 and it airs at 12:30 and 20:30. Each of these broadcast/programing of this show airs for about 20 minutes.
Studio 24
According to @RaiStudio24 Twitter's page, it state that the show focus on "The political deepening of Rainews24." This airs at 10:15am CET each morning and replays in the afternoon at 13:30pm CET.