Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network Rai and broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and on satellite platform. It presents mostly Italian films, interviews and documentaries.
RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana; commercially styled as Rai since
2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national
public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy
and Finance.
RAI operates many terrestrial
and subscription television channels and radio stations. It is one of
the biggest broadcasters in Italy competing with Mediaset, and other
minor radio and television networks. RAI has a relatively high
television audience share of 35.9%.
RAI broadcasts are
also received in surrounding countries, including Albania, Bosnia,
Croatia, France, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Slovenia,
Switzerland, Serbia, Tunisia, and the Vatican City, and elsewhere on pay
television and some channels FTA across Europe including the UK on the
Hotbird satellite.
Half of RAI's revenues come
from the broadcast receiving license fees, the remainder from the sale
of advertising time.[6][7] In 1950, RAI became one of the 23 founding
members of the European Broadcasting Union.