Rai Uno

Infobox TV channel
name=Rai Uno
logofile=rai uno.svg‎
logosize= 200px
launch= January 3, 1954
share=23.74%
share as of= Prime time of Dec '05
share source= [http://www.auditel.it/doc/datisatdic05SITO.xls]
country= ITA
Coastal northern TUN [http://www.telediffusion.net.tn/index.php?r_freqen]
owner= RAI - Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.a.
former names= Programma Nazionale (1954-1975)
Rete 1 (1975-1982)
web= [http://www.raiuno.rai.it www.raiuno.rai.it]
terr serv 1=Analogue
terr chan 1=PAL, in Italy. "Normally tuned on channel 1"
terr serv 2=Digital
terr chan 2=DVB-T (on "RAI Mux A"), in Italy
sat serv 1=Analogue
sat chan 1=Not available
sat serv 2=Digital
sat chan 2=DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard during some events) on Hotbird, Astra, Atlantic Bird and Hispasat
sat serv 3= SKY Italia
sat chan 3=Channel 101
sat serv 4= CanalSat
sat chan 4=Channel 365
cable serv 1=FASTWEB
cable chan 1= Channel 1
cable serv 2=MC Cable (Monaco)
cable chan 2= Channel 201
cable serv 3=Ziggo (Netherlands)
cable chan 3= Channel 630
cable serv 4=UPC Romania
cable chan 4= Channel 192
cable serv 5=Com Hem (Sweden)
cable chan 5= Channel 177
cable serv 6=TV Cabo (Portugal)
cable chan 6= Channel 227
cable serv 7= Cablecom (Switzerland)
cable chan 7= Channel 93
adsl serv 1=FASTWEB
adsl chan 1= Channel 1
adsl serv 2=Alice Home TV
adsl chan 2= Channel 001
adsl serv 3=Tiscali TV
adsl chan 3= Channel 1
online serv 1=Rai.tv
online chan 1= [http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E2,00.html Live Streaming]
online serv 2=Yalp.alice.it
online chan 2= [http://www.yalp.alice.it/tv/index.html?channel=RAIUNO Live Streaming] |

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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.

Directors of Rai Uno

Programmes

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

hows

*"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 Enrico Mentana)

Reality shows

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

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, restarted on Summer 2008)

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)

Foreign series

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

Children programmes

*"Zecchino d'oro"

ports

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.

See also

*RAI
*Rai Due
*Rai Tre
*Rai Quattro

References

External links

* [http://www.raiuno.rai.it/ Official Site] it icon
* [http://www.rai2.info/ Site of Rai Due] it icon
* [http://www.rai3.info/ Site of Rai Tre] it icon