Rai Italia

Rai Italia
Country	Italy
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Programming
Language(s)	Italian
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	RAI through Rai Internazionale
Sister channels	Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai 4, Rai 5
History
Launched	1 January 1992
Former names	Rai International (1992–2008)
Links
Website	www.raitalia.it

Rai Italia is the international Italian language television service of Rai Com, a subsidiary of RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. Rai Italia operates a television network that broadcasts around the world via 4 localized feeds. Programming features a mix of news, discussion-based programs, drama and documentaries as well as sports coverage. From 1996 to 2013, Glauco Benigni is Head of the Press International Office and Head of Promotion and Development of RAI International worldwide.

The broadcast of the signal, sent from the Saxa Rubra television production center in Rome, is broadcast through several satellite, cable, IPTV and OTT platforms, as a paid service in the Americas, Africa and Australia, whereas in Asia it is an FTA channel.