All Italian-Canadians were denied RAI programming by RAI International's removal of its programming from the Canadian marketplace, a move intended to create a public outcry and a threat that Canadians would resort to using satellite viewing cards obtained via the US in order to watch RAI, even though these cards were either grey market or black market, according to different analyses ( see below ).

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.

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.

* Islamic Republic of Iran Railways is abbreviated as RAI

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.

Other figures were Craxi's mistresses Ania Pieroni, who owned a TV station in the Rome area, and Sandra Milo, who had a skyrocketing career in the state TV conglomerate RAI.

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

After the ban, the Italian broadcasting service RAI tried to continue to prohibit her songs, which were forthright in dealing with subjects such as religion, smoking and sex.

Mina's record sales were unaffected and due to public demand, RAI ended the ban.

Other songs that RAI initially banned as immoral were " Ta-ra-ta-ta " ( dealing forthrightly with smoking ), " La canzone di Marinella ", and " L ' importante è finire " ( alluding to sex without love ).

The series consists of 90 episodes, each about 2 – 3 minutes long and were originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971 and 1986.

Two televised debates were set by the Parliamentary Committee of Inspection on RAI, which had the goal of ensuring equal treatment for the two political sides.

Some seasons of the show were produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom, RAI in Italy and Channel 7 in Australia, where later seasons of the show were more popular than in the domestic market, and in order to continue production, they financed the later seasons.

Prior to becoming RAI operating companies, both R. J. Reynolds and Santa Fe were part of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., which traded on the New York Stock Exchange as RJR.

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.

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.

Mike Bongiorno, the host of Lascia o raddoppia ?, was also wooed away from RAI to host an early quiz shows on TeleMilano.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

* 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.

Fellini had two siblings: Riccardo ( 1921 – 1991 ), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena ( m. Fabbri ; 1929 – 2002 ).

Normal ranges for RAI uptake are from 10-30 %.

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.

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.

Other educational institutions are the Perugia Fine Arts Academy " Pietro Vannucci " ( founded in 1573 ), the Perugia Music Conservatory for the study of classical music, and the RAI Public Broadcasting School of Radio-Television Journalism.

Written for a radio production by RAI in 1950, his short opera, I due timidi ( The Two Timid Ones ), was presented by the Santa Fe Opera as part of their pre-season " One-Hour Opera " program in May / June 2008.

Gazzelloni was the principal flute in the RAI orchestra for 30 years and dedicatee of many works.

In 1949 Giazotto became the director of the chamber music programs for RAI ( Radio Audizioni Italiane ) and in 1966 its director of the international programs organized through the European Broadcasting Union.

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

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 ).

During the process RAI employed Brass Extrusion Labs Ltd. ( BELL ) of Bensenville, Illinois, to make the. 338 / 416 or 8. 58 × 71mm cartridge cases, Hornady produced bullets, and RAI built a sniper rifle under contract for the U. S. Navy.

Pressed by military deadlines RAI looked for another case producer and contacted Lapua of Finland in 1984.

In 1988, she became international political correspondent for RAI, covering events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the situation in the United States after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and the Iraqi war.

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 )

At IBC 2011 in Amsterdam RAI several companies, including Sony, Panasonic, JVC & others highlighted their upcoming 3D stereoscopic product portfolios for both the professional and consumer markets to use the same polarization technique as RealD 3D Cinema uses for stereoscopy.

* 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 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.

RAI transmits on digital television on thirteen channels, the most popular named Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre, but also broadcasts via satellite and is involved in radio, publishing and cinema.

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

* 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.

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.