* 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.

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 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.

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

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.

In Italy, FNC was launched on the now-defunct Italian digital satellite-television platform Stream TV in 2001.

* 1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality

* Vivere ( May 2006 ) ( Italian TV Series ) ... Emir Ibrahim

* Un Medico in Famiglia ( 2007 ) ( Italian TV Series )

In 2009, in an interview for Italian TV, after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino said " You haven't asked me about the third one ", and implied that he would be making a third Kill Bill film with the words " The Bride will fight again!

Italian TV experienced a stint of interest in SF between 1970 and 1975.

* Iris ( TV channel ), an Italian free entertainment television channel

Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries Sinatra, Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's The Rat Pack, Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator and Anna Drijver in the 2012 Italian TV film Walter Chiari-Fino all ' ultima risata.

Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling the Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show (" Wojtylaccio ", meaning " Bad Wojtyla " in Italian ).

* In the Italian TV satirical program Striscia la notizia a reporter answers to the scammers ' email message and fixes an appointment with them in an attempt to interview them.

One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan's Articolo 31, then and still today produced by Franco Godi, who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.

Lean could not find financial backing for both films after Warner Bros. withdrew from the project ; he decided to combine it into one, and even looked at a seven-part TV series, before finally getting backing from Italian magnate Dino De Laurentiis.

In Italy, the Discovery Channel ( and HD ) is distributed via satellite by Sky Italia, the most Italian pay TV.

* Hiro ( TV channel ), an Italian channel

Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.

Her annual world tours and Italian TV shows, however, continued to include her best of the late sixties.

* Caravaggio, a 2007 Italian TV film about the painter directed by Angelo Longoni

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

Italian American TV personalities, such as Mario Batali, Giada DeLaurentiis, Rachael Ray and Lidia Bastianich were hosting popular cooking shows featuring Italian cuisine.