Rai 3 (formerly Rai Tre) is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It was launched on 15 December 1979 and its programming is centred towards cultural and regional programming. It has always been considered the most left-leaning channel of Italian public television. Rai 3 is a direct competitor to La7 and Mediaset's Rete 4.
Foreign language programming
In the Aosta Valley, Rai 3 broadcasts programmes in French as well as in Valdôtain dialect.
In the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, Rai Südtirol timeshares broadcast hours in German with Rai 3 when not broadcasting.
In the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Rai 3 BIS (TDD Furlanija Julijska Krajina) is a separate channel which broadcasts daily from 18:40 with a half-hour daily newscast in Slovene, and other shows in Slovene. In accordance with a bilateral cooperation agreement between Italy and Slovenia, Slovene-language shows produced by Rai 3 Bis are also aired on the Slovenian regional television channel TV Koper-Capodistria and on State-owned TV Slovenija 2.
Current Programmes
A few shows include:
- TG3, Rai 3 main news service
- TGR, regional news service
- Doc3
- Quante storie (Rai 3, from 2019)
- Che tempo che fa, from 15 October 2023 broadcast on Nove, a Television channel edited by Discovery Italia, a Warner Bros. Discovery group division.
- Chi l'ha Visto?
- Un Posto al sole (A Place in the Sun) a soap opera airing on Rai 3 since 21 October 1996.
- Vieni via con me
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Law & Order
- Friends
- Desperate Housewives
- The Defenders
- The Spaghetti Family
- Glob
- Inspector Gadget
- Melevisione
- Buongiorno Estate
- UEFA Europa League (one game per matchday live, the possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)
- UEFA Europa Conference League (one game per matchday live, the possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)
Past programmes
Talk shows
- Gazebo (2013-2017)
Films
- Il complicato mondo di Nathalie (2024)
- I profumi di madame Walberg (2024)
Information
- NewsRoom (2024)
- Mano a mano (2024)
Logos
References
Notes
Further reading
- Delio De Martino, Per una storia di Raitre. Premessa di Raffaele Nigro, Bari, Levante Editori, 2009, ISBN 978-88-7949-531-8.
External links
- Official Site (in Italian)
- Rai 3 on Facebook
