TG2 is the brand for the news program

News program

A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors...

mes of Rai Due

Rai Due

Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started transmissions on November 4, 1961...

, the Italian

Italy

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 state-owned television channel. The programmes are shown several times throughout the day — domestically on Rai Due

Rai Due

Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started transmissions on November 4, 1961...

, across Europe

Europe

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 on Rai News and in other parts of the world on Raitalia.

Editor and political leanings

The editor-in-chief of the programmes is Mario De Scalzi (caretaker). Originally TG2 was born politically near to the Italian Communist Party

Italian Communist Party

The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...

 (PCI) and the Italian Socialist Party

Italian Socialist Party

The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

 (PSI)).

Programme format

The programmes are generally presented by a single newsreader

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 but with additional newsreaders for sports features. Most items are pre-recorded reports and are generally followed by a correspondent

Correspondent

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 reporting live from the scene of the report.

It uses a one-line red scrolling news ticker

News ticker

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 which features breaking news

Breaking news

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.

Daily programme

Name	Description
TG2 Non Solo Soldi
TG2 10 Minuti
TG2 Costume e Società	fashion and styles
TG2 Dossier
TG2 Dossier Storie
TG2 Neon Cinema	film
TG2 Neon Libri	literature
TG2 Medicina 33	health
TG2 Non Solo Nero
Meteo 2	weather forecast with data provided by Aeronautica Militare Aeronautica Militare The Italian Air Force is the air force of the Italian Republic. It has held a prominent role in modern Italian military history...  (the Italian Air Force)
TG2 Salute	health
TG2 Mizar
TG2 Sì Viaggiare	travel
TG2 Eat Parade	cooking
TG2 Mistrà
TG2 Motori	automobiles
TG2 Chip	consumer technology
TG2 Net

Schedule

• TG2 Mattina — broadcast Monday through Friday at 10:00 (runtime: 60 minutes); Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 and again at 9:00; runtime: 60 minutes.

• TG2 Giorno — broadcast daily at 13:00.

• TG2 Flash L.I.S. — broadcast Monday through Friday at 17:45; Saturday and Sunday at 10:30; runtime: 5 minutes, in Italian Sign Language
  Italian Sign Language
  Italian Sign Language or ISL is the visual language employed by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until recently, most of the studies about Italian Sign Language have dealt with its...
  
  ).

• TG2 18:00 — broadcast Saturday and Sunday at 18:00; runtime: 5 minutes.

• TG2 18:15 — broadcast Monday through Friday at 18:15; runtime: 30 minutes.

• TG2 20:30 — broadcast daily at 20:30; runtime: 30 minutes.

• TG2 Notte — broadcast daily at night (between 22.30 and 23.50 from Monday to Friday; between 0.00 and 01.35 Saturday and Sunday); runtime: 12 – 15 minutes.

Presenters

• Adele Ammendola
• Giovan Battista Brunori
• Maria Grazia Capulli

• Dario Laruffa
• Chiara Lico
• Maurizio Martinelli
• Maria Concetta Mattei

• Manuela Moreno
• Francesca Nocerino
• Daniele Rotondo

• Luca Salerno
• Nadia Zicoschi

External links

• tg2.rai.it, official website (in Italian language)