RTL 102.5

Infobox Radio station
name = RTL 102.5

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area = flagicon|Italy Italy - National FM, DAB
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slogan = "Very Normal People"
airdate = 1975
frequency = several frequencies, change from geographical side to side (generally 102.500 FM)
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owner = RTL 102.5 Hit Radio S.r.l.
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website = [http://www.rtl.it www.rtl.it]
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RTL 102.5 is a private Italian radio station.

It has been the first Italian radio station using the format "Hit Radio", which involves the broadcasting of greatest hits only.

The RTL 102.5 group includes also the advertising agency "Openspace" and the satellite channel "RTL 102.5 Television" (ex "Hit Channel"). The whole radio schedule is now broadcasted also in "radiovisione" on RTL 102.5 Television.

History

RTL 102.5 originated in Bergamo in 1975 as "Radio Trasmissioni Lombarde" ("Lombard Radio Broadcasting"). Lorenzo Suraci, the current president, took it over in 1988 to advertise his "Capriccio" discoteque in Arcene, near Bergamo. Rapidly RTL's signal was extended in the whole North of Italy. Then, Suraci tested the national isofrequency to make RTL receivable in the whole of Italy on the same frequency, 102.5 MHz. In 1990 it became one of the 14 Italian national networks. It has been the first private Italian radio station creating its own editorial structure, now directed by Luigi Tornari.

The headquarters are based in Cologno Monzese, near Milan, in the first building in Europe created especially for radio. RTL 102.5 also has an office in Rome, in via Virginio Orsini, near the Piazza del Popolo, which houses part of the editorial staff, recording rooms and the studio from which programs like "The flight" and "Suite 102.5" are broadcast. Another office is in Naples, near the Maschio Angioino.

peakers

Speakers now broadcasting from RTL 102.5:

*Alberto Bisi
*Alessandro Greco
*Alex Peroni
*Andrea De Sabato
*Andrea Pamparana
*Andrea Salvati
*Angelo Baiguini
*Angelo Di Benedetto
*Antonello Sarno
*Barbara Sala
*Bruno Vespa
*Carletto
*Charlie Gnocchi
*Conte Galé
*Cristina Borra
*Fabio Santini
*Federico l'Olandese Volante
*Federico Vespa
*Fernando Proce
*Francesca Cheyenne
*Francesco Facchinetti
*Fulvio Giuliani
*Gabriele Manzo
*Giorgio Medail
*Giusi Legrenzi
*Jennifer Pressman
*Jolanda Granato
*José Altafini
*Massimo Cerri
*Massimo Discenza
*Max Viggiani
*Nicoletta Deponti
*Paoletta
*Paul Mario Baccaglini Frank
*Pierluigi Diaco
*Roberto Arditti
*Roberto Uggeri
*Rosita Celentano
*Sara Ventura
*Silvia Annichiarico
*Valeria Benatti

From 2005 to November 2007 the station manager was Roberto Zaino. His predecessor had been Luca Viscardi.

Editorial structure

The RTL 102.5 editorial structure, born on August 26, 1991, has been the first in the history of the private national Italian radio. It received prizes and rewards fot the quality of its product. It consists of 16 journalists and of 120 correspondents from the main Italian cities and from some foreign cities like London, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Dublin, Monte Carlo, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and Lima. There are five editorial offices in Italy (Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin and Palermo).

Every day, the editorial staff achieves the "Giornale Orario" (the radionews on air on the strock of every hour), the morning program "Non stop news", the afternoon magazine "Password" and the Sunday "L'indignato speciale" ("The special indignant") and "Mai visto alla radio" ("Never seen on radio"). The editor is Luigi Tornari, who cames after Fabio Santini and Roberto Arditti.

The Milan editorial staff is composed of Fulvio Giuliani, Paolo Pacchioni, Ivana Faccioli, Sergio Gadda, Alessandra Giannoli, Jolanda Granato, Giusi Legrenzi, Jennifer Pressman, Giovanni Perria, Antonella Rocchi, Andrea Salvati and Max Viggiani. The Rome editorial staff consists of Alberto Ciapparoni, Gabriele Manzo, Maria Paola Raiola and Federico Vespa.

External links

* [http://www.rtl.it http://www.rtl.it]
* [http://www.rdstmc.it/ RDS-TMC RTL - web site]
* To listen on live broadcast to RTL 102.5 (for example with Windows Media Player) it's possible to use this link: http://www.rtl.it/player/streaming/rtlpromo.asx