Rai Teche

During 2010, the Rai Storia channel, with which the Teche cooperate also at concept level, was consolidated, Rai 5 was launched and Rai Premium continued broadcasting, moving from the satellite platform to DTT. These are the three offerings that use the television archives more than others for their programming. In this context, the users of the Teche's Multimedia Catalogue (CMM) grew again, reaching a total of 10,500, with an average of 610,000 searches a month. The catalogue is expanded each year by digitally storing all Rai television and radio broadcasts and by gradually recovering past material: on 31-12- 2010 a total of 2,009,306 hours were available for consultation in the catalogue. Television content is being recovered, stored and catalogued all the way back to 1954. The CMM's complex and advanced technologies make it possible to view or listen to the archived material from any corporate workstation. Besides the documentation of the programmes broadcast every day by the three general-interest networks and the radio channels, the recovery of material from the past is also taking place in the regional offices. This includes rough material from the TGR and Tg2, in view of the digitalisation of the programmes' production process. The national recovery of past material however has now partly diminished, due mainly to technical reasons. The activity of the Rights Archive increased in intensity, with a considerable rise in the number of certifications required, not only by DTT channels, but also by the new replay TV, available on the web, which made its debut in 2010. The number of hours of material released to third parties for institutional reasons (schools, universities, local authorities, etc.) is rising constantly, with significant participations by management in events of particular importance and in agreements with cultural institutions, like the MAXXI museum of contemporary art and the Casa del Cinema in Rome, the Alberto Manzi Centre, the Museum of Astronomy in Turin and the Tuscan Regional Media Library. During the year, the Teche launched the collaboration with numerous initiatives linked to the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Unification of Italy, including the exhibition organised in Turin and entitled Fare gli italiani and the evenings organised by the Corriere della Sera Foundation Gli anni dell'Italia. At the Premio Italia, held in Turin, management contributed to the creation of the documentary Concerto italiano and, with the Technological Support department, created the digital system for viewing the materials related to the award and available to all participants and visitors. Together with Rai Cinema, management co-produced the documentary by Gabriele Salvatores 1960, presented with immense success at the Venice Film Festival and broadcast on RaiTre, with excellent viewing figures. The documentary was subsequently screened on more than ten evenings in various Italian theatres. Other important productions for institutional purposes were the documentaries Il giardino perduto by Giorgio Bassani (by Silvana Palumbieri) during the festival organised on the writer by Cineteca di Bologna, and Roma1960, le Olimpiadi della TV, a DVD (by Daniela Piccioni) enclosed with the book of the same title published by Rai ERI and curated by Barbara Scaramucci and Claudio Ferretti, in bookstores from December 2010. ERI also published the book by Ettore Pacetti, Teche official, entitled Segreti concerti which won the in-house company competition 'Narrerai'. The European project Presto Prime was developed, with management contributing in terms of organisation of the database for audio-visual broadcasting rights.