* Biography of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ( 1896-1957 ) on RAI International online

Current broadcasters include All India Radio, BBC World Service, Deutschlandradio, biteXpress, HCJB, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, RTÉ Radio ( RTÉ ), Radio Exterior de España, RAI, Kuwait Radio, Radio New Zealand International, Vatican Radio, Voice of Russia and Radio Romania International.

* Radio RAI International: bird chirping and bells sound.

* RAI International

* Biography of Eros Ramazzotti, from RAI International

The series is currently being aired on Saturday mornings in Italy and on occasional weekday afternoons in North America during the " Cartoni " segment on the RAI International satellite channel.

In the 1990s she became a professional journalist and TV presenter, and she currently hosts the current affairs programme Italia Rai on RAI International.

It is also home to the nation's capital city of Praia and to one of the islands ’ four international airports, Praia International Airport, 3 km from the capital ( IATA airport code: RAI, Praia ).

* RAI International: Cinecittà

In 2003, RAI pulled its content from TLN and petitioned the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to allow it to broadcast RAI International in Canada.

Italian law provides the Italian diaspora votes in Italian elections and permanent seats in the Parliament of Italy, and many hopeful participants in such Italian elections in Canada led the campaign to urge the Canadian authorities to admit RAI International as a foreign service.

After initially being rejected by the CRTC in 2004 in strong terms, much political wrangling by RAI and certain Italian Canadians ensued, and RAI International was eventually approved by the CRTC in the spring of 2005 and began broadcasting in June 2005.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

In April 2004 Gruber resigned from her position at RAI in protest against the influence on state controlled media by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

In the European Parliament elections of 2004 she ran as an independent candidate for the European Parliament under the centre-left Olive Tree ticket ; her candidacy was proposed, together with Michele Santoro, after she was pushed out of Silvio Berlusconi-controlled RAI.

* 1984 to 2004: Worked for RAI ( Italian radio and television broadcasting company )

Reynolds American was formed in January 2004 and began trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange as RAI in August 2004.

RJR became a subsidiary of RAI in July 2004.

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

The Italian RAI TV show La notte della Repubblica mentioned the possibility that the Red Brigades had been infiltrated by Israeli agents as early as 1974.

In the 1980s, Nespolo made ceramics and blown glass objects, created over fifty posters for exhibitions and other events, did advertising campaigns-the ones for Campari and Azzurra are the most famous-and realised title sequences for shows on the Italian television RAI.

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

On October 25, 1995, the Italian public service broadcaster RAI reported the exhumation of the human remains of Mattei and Bertuzzi.

An Italian tapping case which surfaced in November 2007 revealed significant manipulation of the news at the national television company RAI.

For nine Saturday nights in winter of 1969, Vartan starred in the Doppia coppia variety nights of RAI, performing her hits " Irrésistiblement " (" Irresistibilmente ") and " Le jour qui vient " (" Una cicala canta ") in Italian.

The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup that officially was recorded and transmitted in HDTV by the Italian broadcaster RAI in association with the Japanese NHK broadcaster.

RAI has the largest audience share ( 45 %) of any Italian television network.

The Italian broadcaster, RAI, simply decided not to send any delegation to Bergen.

In the 1980s, among the largest providers of foreign programming were Japan's Fujisankei Communications Group, which aired a morning show on weekdays, and RAI, the Italian public broadcaster which programmed two hours on weeknights, and five hours on Sunday mornings, a period which included airings of Italian soccer games.

The Italian broadcaster, RAI, decided to withdraw from the contest, a move that would see Italy absent from the contest for 13 years before their return in 2011.

* RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, Italian public broadcasting

Debuted in 1994 singing for the Italian TV show " Non è la RAI ", where some girls sang songs using voices of professionist vocalist.

Volpe remained active with issues of interest to the Italian community in Toronto, and was a prominent supporter of RAI International's bid to receive a television licence in Canada.

Shortly after, still virtually unknown and little experienced, she was offered the challenging role of Cio-Cio-San in an Italian television ( RAI ) production of Madama Butterfly.

Italy refused to broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 on RAI because of a song sung by Gigliola Cinquetti which coincided with the intense political campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May.

RAI censors felt that the song, which was titled " Sì " ( Yes ), and which contained lyrics constantly repeating the aforementioned word could be accused of being subliminal messaging and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote ' yes ' in the referendum (' yes ' to repeal the law that allowed divorce ).

He started his career in the Italian public broadcasting company ( RAI ) in the early 1950s, and went on to become one of the most popular faces in its news dominant TV market share in Italy.

It was performed by a band called Marc 4 ( four session musicians from the RAI orchestra ) and the lead part was sung by Italian singer / composer Alessandro Alessandroni.

In the 1980s, public broadcasters started to randomly show logos during programs to prevent video piracy, following the lead of Italian broadcasters RAI and Canale 5.

He was also cinematographer for a BBC co-production with Italian broadcaster RAI of Verdi's Rigoletto over two nights on the weekend of 4 and 5 September 2010.

The new RAI board installed by the centre-right government decided not to renew Santoro's contract.

Rai 3 is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 ( amongst others ).