Rai Uno

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Rai Uno
Launched	January 3, 1954
Owned by	RAI - Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.a.
Audience share	23.74% (Prime time of Dec '05, [1])
Country	Italy
Formerly called	Programma Nazionale (1954-1975) Rete 1 (1975- 1982)
Website	www.raiuno.rai.it
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue	PAL, in Italy. Normally tuned on channel 1
Digital	DVB-T (on RAI Mux A), in Italy
Satellite
Analogue	Not available
Digital	DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard during some events) on Hotbird, Astra, Atlantic Bird and Hispasat
SKY Italia	Channel 101
Cable
FASTWEB	Channel 1
MC Cable	Channel 201
Ziggo	Channel 630
UPC Romania	Channel 192
IPTV over ADSL
FASTWEB	Channel 1
Alice Home TV	Channel 001
Tiscali TV	Channel 1 online serv 1=Yalp.alice.it
Internet Television
	Live Streaming

Rai Uno screen capture

Rai Uno is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Programma Nazionale and then called Rete 1 until 1982. It is a generalist channel, and its direct competitor is Mediaset's Canale 5.

[edit] Early history

The first set of programming for Rai Uno was completely educational with no advertising, except for the popular Carosello. Early shows were meant to teach a common language to a country torn apart by World War II. Shows like Non è mai troppo tardi... were simply shot in a classroom set and meant to help with Reconstruction. While televisions were not widely available nor affordable, those who could spend the money on them became community leaders and often invited the neighborhood to visit. Bars and cafés turned from places where men would meet to argue or play cards into miniature cinemas where arguments over what show to watch would break out. Women and children were also more accepted inside the bars, as a result of the lack of men post-war and their need to enter working society. Churches also bought televisions are a means of drawing people to spend time as part of those communities.

[edit] Directors of Rai Uno

[edit] Programmes

[edit] News and information

• TG1, the Rai Uno main news service, which is directed by Gianni Riotta
• TV7 (weekly news magazine)
• Unomattina (morning magazine program), hosted by Eleonora Daniele and Luca Giurato
• Linea Verde (nature and agriculture), hosted by Massimiliano Ossini, Veronica Maja and the cook Gianfranco Vissani
• Porta a porta (political late night talk show; deepening about actuality and politics), hosted by Bruno Vespa
• Quark (documetaries), hosted by Piero Angela
• Super Quark (science and documentaries), hosted by Piero Angela and Alberto Angela
• Sabato, domenica e... (weekend morning magazine), hosted by Franco Di Mare, Sonia Grey and Corrado Tedeschi

[edit] Shows

• Sanremo Music Festival
• Domenica In (Sunday afternoon show presented by Pippo Baudo, Massimo Giletti, Luisa Corna, Lorena Bianchetti and Rosanna Lambertucci)
• La prova del cuoco (Italian version of Ready Steady Cook presented by Antonella Clerici)
• Ballando con le stelle (Italian version of Strictly Come Dancing, presented by Milly Carlucci and Paolo Belli)
• Notti sul ghiaccio (Italian version of Skating with Celebrities, presented by Milly Carlucci)
• Amore (solidarity show presented by Raffaella Carrà)
• Il treno dei desideri (September - January Saturday night show, hosted by Antonella Clerici)
• La Vita in Diretta (afternoon actuality and lifestyle program, hosted by Michele Cucuzza)

[edit] Reality shows

• Il Ristorante (presented by Antonella Clerici) [no longer shown]

[edit] Game shows

• Affari Tuoi (Italian version of Deal or No Deal, currently presented by Flavio Insinna) (everyday)
• L'Eredità (presented by Carlo Conti) (everyday)
• Tutto per tutto (presented by the former singer Pupo) (no longer shown)
• Chi Fermerà La Musica? (presented by Pupo) (musical game show) (weekly)
• Soliti Ignoti - Identità Nascoste (presented by Fabrizio Frizzi (shown until March 1, 2008, restarting during summer)

[edit] Italian TV series

• Incantesimo (the most popular and longest Italian TV series) (season 11 showing)
• Don Matteo (season 6 showing)
• Capri (season 2 showing)
• Orgoglio (no longer shown)
• Un medico in famiglia (season 5 showed March - May 2007)
• Gente di mare (season 2 showed until November 2007)
• Lo zio d'America (season 2 showed on October 2007)
• Il Commissario Montalbano (selected episodes showing)
• Un Caso di Coscienza (season 3 showed until January 2008)
• Sospetti (no longer shown)
• Sottocasa (no longer shown)

[edit] Foreign series

• McLeod's Daughters (summer time)
• Commander in Chief (summer time)
• Murder She Wrote (weekend middays)

[edit] Children programmes

• Zecchino d'oro

[edit] Sports

Traditionally, Rai Uno broadcasts only two sports, but they are the first and second most followed sports in Italy: football and Formula 1. Rai Uno usually broadcasts all the Italian national football team's matches, as well as the matches from important football competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championship. Starting from 2006, it has bought the rights to UEFA Champions League.

Rai Uno has always broadcasted Formula 1 races (excluding the first half of the 90s, when the right were bought by Mediaset group) with high shares. Its current rights will expire in 2012.

[edit] See also

• RAI
• Rai Due
• Rai Tre

[edit] External links

• Official Site (Italian)
• Site of Rai Due (Italian)
• Site of Rai Tre (Italian)