Rai Educational

In 2010 Rai Educational remained true to its public service broadcasting role, creating top quality analytical programmes, proposing them both on general-interest TV, on the digital channel, Rai Storia, and on the satellite channel, Rai Scuola. Rai Educational’s big commitment to production during 2010 was rewarded, within the sphere of national and international events, during which 84 programmes were presented (87 in 2009), with 286 candidacies (248 in 2009), and 76 total participations in and out of competitions (72 in 2009).
15 awards were assigned to Rai Educational programmes in 2010 (11 to La Storia Siamo noi, 3 to Crash and 1 to Rai Storia).

Noteworthy among the results achieved is the participation in the most prestigious national award for television journalism, the Ilaria Alpi Prize, with three titles competing in the main sections, Best long reportage (57 giorni a Palermo – La scorta di Borsellino by Francesca Fagnani and Ex Eutelia – La vera storia, a special episode of Crash by Federico Ruffo and Emilio Casalini) and Best short reportage (Terra di nessuno by Paolo Zagari, who went on to win the Jury award of Repubblica.tv). Up to now no Rai programme has had three programmes in the final.

Significant recognition for Crash came in the form of entry of two documentaries of the programme in the Special Awards of PrixItalia 2010 and particularly with the success of the documentary Iran about by Emilio Casalini at the acclaimed Enzo Baldoni e Reporter Italiani Caduti sui Fronti di Guerra prize, overall winner and winner of the Radio and Tv section.

On general-interest TV, we find the titles that characterise the production of Rai Educational.

La Storia Siamo noi – aired in the usual morning slots on RaiTre, the very late night slot on Wednesday on RaiTre and the late night slot on Wednesday on RaiDue. Since September, the programme has been entrusted to the broadcasting responsibility of the structure Rai 150.

Crash: contatto, impatto, convivenza is broadcast on RaiDue at 9:45 a.m. and in the very late night slot on RaiTre on Wednesday, with 60-minute specials. Crash is a weekly analysis programme, featuring reportages, inquiries and current affairs, in which, also with the aid of studio debates, all the aspects linked to the most important phenomenon to affect our country in recent years, immigration, are discussed.

The aim of Crash is to explain to television audiences what is going on in Italy since our country has become a Country of mass immigration, showing the different stances taken by the political forces and the world of culture and associationism. It compares the experiences of other European countries which began taking in immigrants twenty years before Italy and tackles the delicate debate regarding intercultural exchange and inter-religious communication.

Extensive space is dedicated to the consequences of the economic recession and respect for human rights among weaker areas of the population, including immigrants: women, children, the unemployed, the problem of illegal immigration and the exploitation of workers paid cash in hand.

The innovations for 2010 include the new Saturday afternoon slot on RaiTre, from 2:45 until 4:45 p.m. for Tv Talk, the analytical programme and talk show on TV, with the participation of communications experts, university students and professors and the television celebrities themselves. It is followed by Art News, the weekly programme on current affairs in the world of Italian and international art and culture. The new slot generated a significant growth of the share and audience.



Rai Storia



In 2010 the identity of the Rai Storia channel has further consolidated its presence in the DTT segment.
Rai Storia broadcasts every day, around the clock.
Programmes include:
• RES, by Giuseppe Giannotti, is the programme around which the programming of Rai Storia revolves, proposing the re-broadcasting of documents taken from the Teche and making specific programmes like: Come eravamo, snippets from the past to rediscover the way we were and how we related to the television, ResGestae, the appointment with the calendar and the main anniversaries of the day, and ResTore, the slot that makes the most of the rarest and most precious fragments from the Rai Teche;

• Cult Book, by Stas’ Gawronsky to flick through the pages of literature;

• Rewind - TV series, history, stories; an appointment coordinated by Alfonso Notari, which proposes cult TV series;

• Visioni Private the story of a protagonist of our time told through his television memories, by Alfonso Notari, Cinzia Tani, Linda Tugnoli;

• Scrittori per un anno, Isabella Donfrancesco and Alessandra Urbani interview the great literary authors;

• Magazzini Einstein, by Maria Paola Orlandini, to analyze cultural and artistic matters, subjects and personalities;

• Dixit, by Giovanni Minoli, the twohour appointment during prime time, the proposals of which cover a variety of topics: war, biographies, entertainment, foreign matters, science, etc.
Since September, Dixit has been assigned to the new Rai 150 structure.


In 2010, Rai Storia had an all-day average of 13,632 viewers, with a share of 0.14%.



Rai Scuola



Rai Scuola is the Rai Educational channel created to encourage communication between the world of education, young people, families and students of all ages. A laboratory of ideas and contents which responds to the needs of a society undergoing transformation and which, above all, makes young people the starting point for reading the current situation and looking to the future.

Available on the satellite and web platforms, Rai Scuola’s primary aim is to become a meeting place; a place in which to learn and study but also for lightness and leisure, to capture the interest of youngsters, sending them a precise message with a slogan: “school is you”.

In 2010, the channel broadcast all the programmes made in conjunction with the M.I.U.R. (Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research):

• In Italia, the project dedicated by Rai Educational to teaching the Italian language to foreign adults and young adults with the ambitious aim of creating the foundations for a renewed concept of citizenship which is not inherited, but chosen.

• Il D, a multiplatform project which aims to respond, through the television teaching aid accompanied by the web, to the need to the develop linguistic-communication and foreign language cultural skills of students at every level of education (particularly primary school children), to encourage the integration of families into the social fabric and support the linguistic training of teachers.

• Medita, the project intended to disseminate teaching content for Italian teachers via satellite, which also makes it possible to use the audio-visual materials through a specifically designed Internet portal.

• FuoriClasse, the project aimed at contributing to the guiding young people and families in the choice of education and training courses.

• Esplora science now, aimed at offering students, as well as a broader television audience, technical and scientific culture, with particular reference to maths and themes relating to technological innovation.


Innovations for 2010 include the programme Gate C: a selection of products purchased at the main international documentary fairs or coproduced by Rai Educational in agreement with the major European public television companies. A scientific documentary series, from the birth of antibiotics to health issues in Europe.