Rai Utile

Rai Utile

Country	Italy
Broadcast area	Italy
Programming
Language(s)	Italian
Ownership
Owner	RAI
History
Launched	4 January 2004
Replaced	Rai Festival/Rai Azzurri/Rai Olimpia
Closed	1 January 2008
Links
Website	http://www.raiutile.rai.it/

Rai Utile was an Italian TV channel devoted to Italian government and administration, owned by RAI and launched in 2004.

Has shared its frequencies to Rai Festival during the Festival della canzone italiana in April 2004, to Rai Azzurri during the UEFA Euro 2004 (from 11 June 2004) and to Rai Olimpia during the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Due to low ratings, it was closed down in 2008 and replaced by Rai Gulp.

Pop-up channels

Rai Festival

Rai Festival operated on its frequencies during the week of the 2004 San Remo Festival. ^[1]

Rai Azzurri

On 12 June 2004, following the Sanremo experiment, it was used to carry Rai Azzurri, a channel dedicated to the goings on of the national football team during UEFA Euro 2004. Among its fixed hosts during the period was Fabrizio Rocca. Newspaper L'Unità criticized the format, as it temporarily replaced a public utility channel, and sarcastically suggested it to be renamed as Rai Ossimoro (Rai Oxymoron). ^[2]

References

1. "RAI Festival zamiast RAI Utile". satkurier.pl (in Polish).
2. "L'uomo ovunque" (pdf). L'Unità (in Italian).