RaiNews 24 is an Italian digital television channel, broadcast via satellite and digital terrestrial.
History
Rai News 24 screen capture, 1999
This public all-news channel was created on 26 April 1999 thanks to a Service Contract between RAI and the “Ministero delle comunicazioni”, the Italian Minister of Communications.
The new 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 subtitle; 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 is old graphic similar to Bloomberg Television.
Availability
To receive the contents of this news channel 24 hours a day with news bulletins of 15 minutes every half-hour and others 15 minutes of journalistic close examinations about actuality or general news, from the other the weather or economy, it needs the satellite (reception from Hotbird 13° East) or DVB-T receiver (reception only in Italy); RaiNews 24 is available also via internet streaming, on IPTV (only in Italy) and on Rai Tre from 3 am to 8 am. 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 24
- Roberto Morrione (from 1999 to 2006)
- Corradino Mineo (from 2006)
Programmes
- Notiziario (every half-hour, broadcasted also on Raitalia)
- Meteonews24 (every half-hour)
- Notizie dal CCISS viaggiare informati (every half-hour)
- L’analisi
- Dentro la notizia
- Italia, Istruzioni per l’uso on air from Rai Radio 1
- Focus
- Shownet
- Backstage
- America Today
- Next
- Riflettendo con…
- USA 24 H (News from the United States)
- Superzap (News bulletins from the major non-Italian News televisions, like BBC World, CNN International and Al Jazeera)
- repliche TG Regione (Regional news bulletins, on air also on Rai Tre)
- repliche TG (TG1, TG2, TG3, the news bulletins of Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre)
- ShowBiz
- Decoder. Le immagini che fanno notizia (Images with subtitles in Italian, similar to No Comment on EuroNews)
- Il chiosco.
Journalists
- Maurizio Torrealta
- Claudia Origlia
- Sigfrido Ranucci
- Piero Di Pasquale
- Ivana Suhadolc
- Giovanna Tatò
- Marco Silenzi
- Roberto Amen
- Novella Calligaris
- Marco Dedola
Websites
- The website of RaiNews 24 (Italian)
- RaiNews 24 Mobile
- RaiNews 24 on YouTube