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Rai Radio 2 is an Italian radio channel operated by the state-owned public-broadcasting organization
RAI (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (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 a ...
and specializing in talk programmes and popular music.


History

The origins of the channel can be traced back to 21 March 1938, when the
EIAR Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR, "Italian Body for Radio Broadcasting") was the public service broadcaster in Fascist Italy and the only entity permitted to broadcast by the government. History In spite of the fact that the ra ...
– which was to become Radio Audizioni Italiane (
RAI (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (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 a ...
) in 1944 – began transmitting a second, separately programmed radio service in major cities. Following the end of
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
and reconstruction and improvement of the surviving transmitter network, radio broadcasting was reorganized (with effect from 3 November 1946) to provide two national channels covering most of the country. The first channel was known as the ''Rete Azzurra'' (blue network) and the second as the ''Rete Rossa'' (red network). These "neutral" names were chosen to imply that, while at any one time each channel aimed to provide programming of a contrasting style to that available on the other, the two channels were nominally equal in status and had an equally wide-ranging remit. On 1 January 1952, as part of a move aimed at giving each of its channels a more distinctive "personality" – a cultural ''Terzo Programma'' (third programme) having already been added on 1 October 1950 – RAI renamed the Rete Rossa as the ''Secondo Programma'' (second programme), later to become RAI Radio 2.


Programmes

Rai Radio 2 is among the highest-rated Italian radio stations in terms of audience share. '' Viva Radio2'', has been one of the most famous and successful programs of the channel, it was hosted by the popular comedian and TV/radio personality Fiorello, together with Marco Baldini. The most popular shows are ''Il ruggito del coniglio'', ''Caterpillar'' and ''610''. Radio 2, like its sister channels Radio 1 and Radio 3, has its own radio news service (''Giornale Radio''), known as ''GR2''.


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