Rai Teche

The company, originally called Teche e servizi tematici/educativi RAI, was formed in 1995 to categorise and preserve all materials documenting the history of Italian television from over 20 different channels.

In 1999, the old databases were merged and a multimedia catalogue of all broadcasts from the three main channels was published online, along with more than 300,000 hours of historical TV material, prior to the launch of the online radio station in 2000.

Thematic channels were also introduced on digital terrestrial television, with access to the catalogue being limited to those within the company. The content consists of all aired material, including that to which Rai Teche does not have the rights. In February 2014, Rai’s board of directors authorised high-quality digitisation of the historical archives.

In 2004, Rai Teche and Rai Libri published a 500-page large-format volume titled RicordeRai celebrating 50 years of Italian TV broadcasting. With RAI ERI, it published a line of books dedicated to the revival of L'Approdo, a radio show broadcast from the Rai phonology studio in Milan, and another broadcast titled Chiamate Roma 3131. The first issues of Radiorario and an analytical book about TV quiz games were also included in the series. Rai Teche made a considerable contribution of material to the exhibition 1924–2014 la Rai racconta l'Italia, which opened on 31 January 2014 inside Rome's Vittoriano.

As a result of a planned anticipated retired of Rai directors, Barbara Scaramucci was temporarily replaced by the general director Luigi Gubitosi in March 2014. After four months, the board of directors appointed Maria Pia Ammirati as the new director of Rai Teche.