RaiNews 24

Infobox TV channel
name= RaiNews 24
logofile=Rainews24.png logosize=
launch=April 26 1999
picture format=576i (SDTV)
share= -
share as of=
share source=
owner= RAI
former names=
web= [http://www.rainews24.rai.it www.rainews24.rai.it]
country= flagcountry|Italy
terr serv 1=Rai Tre
terr chan 1=Limited terrestrial retransmission over night only
terr serv 2=Mux Rai B
terr chan 2=Only in Italy
sat serv 1=Hotbird
sat chan 1=Free-To-Air
sat serv 2=SKY Italia
sat chan 2=Channel 506
sat serv 3=Cyfra+
sat chan 3=Channel 145
cable serv 1=Cablecom
cable chan 1= Channel 103
cable serv 2= MC Cable
cable chan 2= Channel 200
cable serv 3= Naxoo
cable chan 3= Channel 189
adsl serv 1= Fastweb
adsl chan 1= Channel 506
adsl serv 2= Alice Home TV
adsl chan 2= Channel 506
adsl serv 3= Tiscali TV
adsl chan 3= Channel 506
adsl serv 4= Infostrada TV
adsl chan 4= Channel 506
online serv 1= Rainews24.it
online chan 1= [http://www.rainews24.it/ran24/rainews24_2007/live/player/ Live Streaming]
online serv 2= Rai.tv
online chan 2= [http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E16,00.html Live Streaming] | online serv 3= Yalp.alice.it
online chan 3= [http://www.yalp.alice.it/tv/index.html?channel=RAINEWS24 Live Streaming]
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History

RaiNews 24 is an Italian digital television channel, broadcast via satellite and DTT technology. The creation of a public channel "all-news", anticipated of the Service Contract from RAI and the "Ministero delle comunicazioni", the Italian Minister of Communications, is in action from 26 April 1999, with the creation of RaiNews 24, a channel inspired to all-news TV channel. The new channel experiments an innovative model that combines television, internet and digital technologies: significant was the choose of "multi-screen" format, as well as the wide-spread use of video conference connections with correspondents and experts.The research of the separation from narration of the news and opinions about them is one of the strongest point of this channel and often are broadcast videos without oral comment, but only some subtitle; all for the purpose to do not influence 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)
*"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 Uno
*"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

* [http://www.rainews24.rai.it The website of RaiNews 24] it icon
* [http://www.rainews24.it/mobile RaiNews 24 Mobile]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/Rainews24 RaiNews 24] on YouTube