Rai 2

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Rai 2
Launched 4 November 1961
Owned by RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.a.
Audience share 12.60% (2008, [1])
Country Italy
Formerly called Secondo Programma (1961–1975)
Rete 2 (1975–1982)
Rai Due (1982–2010)
Website www.raidue.rai.it
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue Not available
Digital DVB-T, LCN 2
Satellite
Analogue Not available
Digital DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard during some events) on Hotbird, Astra and Atlantic Bird
SKY Italia Channels 102 and 5002
NOVA Greece Channel 855
Cable
MC Cable Channel 202
Com Hem Channel 213
Cablecom Channel 094
Channel 203 (digital CH-D)
Numericable Channel 77
Streaming media
Rai.tv Live Streaming
Yalp.alice.it Live Streaming

Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started broadcasting on 4 November 1961. In the eighties it was known for its political affiliation to the Italian Socialist Party; in recent years it shifted its focus toward talk shows, reality television and infotainment.

The channel is scheduled to start HDTV broadcasting by the end of September 2013.

Programs

News and information

  • TG2 (Newscast)
  • Meteo2
  • 2 next - Economia & futuro
  • Appuntamento al Cinema
  • Cult Book
  • Crash
  • Fratelli d'Italia
  • I nuovi mille
  • Numero 1
  • NUM3R1
  • Presunto colpevole
  • Tracce
  • Virus - Il contagio delle idee, hosted by Nicola Porro

Shows

  • Emozioni
  • I fatti vostri
  • Il grande cocomero
  • Musica sul 2
  • Seltz
  • Eurovision Song Contest (Final only)
  • Made in Sud
  • Detto Fatto, hosted by Caterina Balivo
  • Quelli che... il Calcio, hosted by Nicola Savino
  • Mezzogiorno in Famiglia

Reality shows

  • Pechino Express, hosted by Costantino della Gherardesca
  • The Voice of Italy', hosted by Fabio Troiano

Game Shows

  • Un Minuto per Vincere (the Italian version of Minute to win it), hosted by Nicola Savino

Cultural Programs

  • A come Avventura, hosted by Alessandra Barzaghi
  • Catastrofi
  • Ragazzi c'è Voyager, hosted by Roberto Giacobbo
  • Sereno variabile, hosted by Osvaldo Bevilacqua
  • Voyager, hosted by Roberto Giacobbo

Religious Programs

  • Protestantesimo
  • Sorgente di vita
  • Sulla via di Damasco, hosted by Giovanni d'Ercole

Series

Italian Sitcom

  • Piloti
  • Quelli dell'Intervallo (a Disney Channel Italy production)
  • 7 Vite

Anime

Other Kids' Shows

Cartoon Flakes is a show that include cartoons like:

Soap Operas

Sports

  • Sabato Sprint
  • Dribbling
  • DS – La Domenica Sportiva
  • Pit Lane

Not longer aired programs

Until the 1975–1976 season regular broadcasting was monochrome, with very few exceptions. Since the 1976 summer season, then called Rete 2 began airing at first some new show in colour, then a semi-regular colour broadcasting during the fall season (anyway few hours a week). Rai 1 followed its "sister network" some month later. Eventually, regular broadcasting in colour began in 1 February 1977.

  • Rischiatutto, one hour long Italian version of Jeopardy!, hosted by Mike Bongiorno, aired on Thursday night, from 5 February 1970, at 9:15 PM (in 1972 season at 9:30 PM). About 20 millions of viewer watched every episode of the show,[3] the first one aired on Rai 2 to enter in the list of the Ten Most Watched Programs on Italian TV during the year. Last two seasons (1973 and 1974) were aired on Rai 1.
  • Ondalibera (known popularly as Televacca, Cow TV), one hour long comedy and satirical show hosted by a very young Roberto Benigni, in his television debut. In the show, the Tuscan peasant Mario Cioni (Benigni) hosts a program aired in the fictional local channel Televacca, which has its headquarters in a stable full of hay and animals. Using a sometimes vulgar and desecrating speech, with a heavy Tuscan accent, Benigni improvised monologues and satirized the TV medium and the society. Co-hosts were the boor Monna (Carlo Monni) and his "daughter" Donatella, a Daisy Mae Yokum style young woman.[4] Considered one of the most controversial programs in Italian TV history, censored and interrupted after only four episodes despite a relatively good success, the program debuted in 19 December 1976, airing on Sunday nights at 8:45 PM.[5]

Logos

2000–2010 2010–present

References

  1. ↑ "Rapporto ANNO 2008". Auditel. 
  2. ↑ "Naval Criminal Investigative Service in onda la domenica alle 21.00" (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 2010-05-21. 
  3. ↑ http://www.eurojump.com/content/ventimilioni-il-gioved%C3%AC-di-mike (Italian)
  4. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnBmyzkAPHQ
  5. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knc8aUslmDw The "opening theme" of the show, titled "La Marcia degli Incazzati" (Pissed Off Guys' March)

External links

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