Rai Movie

Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network Rai and broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and on satellite platform Tivù Sat.

Rai Movie
Launched	1 July 1999 (1999-07-01)
Owned by	Rai
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Audience share	1.06% (May 2014, [1])
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Broadcast area	Italy
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Formerly called	RaiSat Cinema (1999-2003, 2006-2010) RaiSat Cinema World (2003-2006)
Sister channel(s)	Rai 1 Rai 2 Rai 3 Rai 4 Rai 5 Rai Gulp Rai News24 Rai Premium Rai Scuola Rai Sport Rai Storia Rai Yoyo Rai Ladinia Rai Südtirol Rai Italia
Website	rai.it/raimovie
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Channel 24 (SD)
Satellite
Tivùsat	Channel 14 (SD) Channel 114 (HD)
Cable
UPC Switzerland	Channel 38 (Tessin) Channel 538 (Romandy & Deutschswizz)
IPTV
Sunrise (Switzerland)	Channel 159 (SD)
Streaming media
RaiPlay	Live streaming

The channel was launched in 2003 as RaiSat Cinema World and re-badged in 2006 as RaiSat Cinema. On 31 June 2009, RaiSat Cinema was removed of Sky and was launched in the new free-to-view satellite platform Tivùsat. On 18 May 2010 it was renamed Rai Movie. It broadcasts mostly Italian films, interviews, backstages and documentaries.

Since 2003 it is the official media partner of the Venice Film Festival and since 2007 of the Rome Film Festival.

In April 2019, Rai announced that this channel, along with Rai Premium, will shut down to make place for a new channel called Rai 6, with a female target. This sparked controversy and an online petition that quickly reached 120.000 signatures. However, the scheduled date for the shutdown is unknown to this day.

Logos

1999–2003, 2006-2010 (as raisat cinema), 2003-2006 (as raisat cinema world) This file has an invalid fair use claim and may be deleted after Thursday, 13 February 2020.	2010–2016 (as rai movie)	2016-present

References

1. "Sintesi Mensile 1A" (PDF). Auditel. Retrieved 30 June 2014.