RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana, commercially styled as Rai since 2000 and known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), 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 Europe, and the biggest in Italy competing with Mediaset and other minor radio and television networks. RAI has a relatively high television audience share of 35.9%.
Claudio Sorrentino was an Italian actor, voice actor and television presenter.
Carmine Gallone was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Italian cinema's leading early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty-year career between 1913 and 1963.
Tina Pica was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage. Her film debut came in 1935 with The Three-Cornered Hat.
Giacomo Matteo Furia was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998.
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu was a French actor. He appeared in over 150 films from 1960, and worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor for his debut performance in Jacques Becker’s The Hole (1960), and for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for playing the title role in the Italian miniseries The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971). He was previously a decorated paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion, where he served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War.
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s. Around that time she met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend and muse for the next 15 years. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco queen, mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia, signed to Ariola Records. Her best-selling album is Sweet Revenge and her biggest hits include "Blood and Honey", "Tomorrow", "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "The Sphinx" and "Fashion Pack".
Italian Left is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies, including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissidents from the Democratic Party like Future to the Left, and splinters from the Five Star Movement. At its launch, SI included 32 deputies, who were soon followed by eight senators, and two MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017, after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
GA&A Productions S.r.l. is an Italian distribution and production film company founded in 1990 by Gioia Avantaggiato, which operates in cinema and television. During its business, GA&A Productions collaborated with leading Italian television networks, from RAI to Mediaset to La7. The company, which works in the field of cinema, documentary and television shows, also acts on the international stage and has co-produced documentaries with channels such as Arte, Channel 4, ZDF, CBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, NHK Japan and SBS Australia. The company is also involved in film distribution. Among its catalogue:
Valentina Cenni is an Italian artist and actress.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1968.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1962.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1971.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1958.
Sergio Wolmar Zavoli was an Italian sports and documentary journalist and politician.
