* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

For Intervista, produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of the first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka ’ s Amerika.

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.

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 1990, a report on RAI Television alleged that the CIA had paid Licio Gelli to foment terrorist activities in Italy.

The event, which was attended by the Pontiff, Rav Elio Toaff, Imam Abdulawahab Hussein Gomaa, and 7, 000 invited guests, was telecast on RAI, on PBS, and throughout the world, and released on DVD by WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the 15th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 21 March 1970 at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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.

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

With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Inspector Maigret with Gino Cervi.

In addition to the degree of popularity brought him by the novels, in recent months Andrea Camilleri has become even more of a media icon thanks to the parodies aired on an RAI radio show, where popular comedian, TV-host and impression artist Fiorello presents him as a raspy voiced, caustic character, madly in love with cigarettes and smoking ( Camilleri is well known for his love of tobacco ).

On April 22, 2007, 86-year-old Enzo Biagi made his TV comeback on the RAI with RT-Rotocalco Televisivo, a current affairs show which is broadcast on Raitre.

Certain programming on Italy's RAI, and the majority of Dutch channels are covered by such schemes ( although in the case of RAI some programming is transmitted without encryption where there are no copyright issues ).

* Jan Kregel on the portal RAI Economy

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

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.

* 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 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.

He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches – called " Pietro Longo = P2 " – caused the Psdi to ask the RAI commission to remove Grillo from RAI TV ; their request was denied.

At 19, she went to New York, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter.

In Italy, part of the series was broadcast in the late 1970s by the RAI state television network.

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

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

* A fictionalized account of the actions of Legio XIII Gemina during the struggle between Julius Caesar and the Optimates faction under Pompey can be seen in the joint HBO / BBC / RAI television production Rome, most notably two of its soldiers: Centurion Lucius Vorenus and Legionary Titus Pullo, named after real-life Centurions Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo of the XI Legion.

It was obvious that careers in state conglomerates, especially public television RAI, were likely to be influenced more by personal acquaintances than by competence.

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.

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

However, a few years after the release of the film, Castelnuovo gained fame as an actor in Italy, thanks to the role of Renzo in the television mini-series I promessi sposi, shown first on Channel RAI ( 1967 ).

As her record sales were unaffected and audiences demanded to see Mina on the air, RAI was forced to end the ban and let Mina return to television on 10 January 1964.

A best-selling narrative of his remarkable single-handed valour was written by Enrico Deaglio, entitled, the ' Banality of Goodness ', and was turned into a film by the RAI national television corporation.

She appeared on the Young Italian Composers RAI 3 television programme in 1983.

Michele Santoro resigned as an MEP on October 19, 2005, basing his decision on his desire to go back to his work on RAI, citing a judicial verdict which obliged the Italian national television to reinstate him.

A Rat-Man animated series has been produced by the Italian public television company RAI and Stranemani Animation Studios.

On his return to Italy, he participated as the guest star in 10 episodes of the television show " Al Paradise " for the Italian national television RAI ( 1985 ).

Italian public television RAI bought a copy of the film but for years it was never shown to an Italian audience because it would significantly change the opinion Italians have about their role during World War II-if asked about their country's role, they will remember Italian partisans fighting the Germans, but when asked about atrocities, Italians will only remember Tito's troops hurling Italians into ravines after the war without knowing anything about Italian war crimes against ethnic Slovene civil population, unlike the French who, having deconstructed resistance mythology, are aware of Vichy, too.

He has done set designs for RAI, television acronyms / logos in computer graphics.

The main competitors of RAI are Mediaset, the biggest national private broadcaster, divided in three channels, and La7, owned by Telecom Italia.

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

After, Turchi suggested to leave the private channels of Silvio Berlusconi and return to RAI.

Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3.