Rai Italia takes a new fundamental step toward its broadcasting in Europe as well. It does so in a big way, allowing Rai to land for the first time with its broadcasts in Great Britain and Spain, two geographical areas where the Italian community is large and very attentive to the vicissitudes of their country of origin. The distribution agreement with World Stream - Il Globo was finalized by Rai Com and includes, among others, the territories of Southern Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, which join Germany, Hungary and Luxembourg. World Stream is an integral part of the Melbourne-based publishing group "Il Globo", which was established in 2016 with the aim of providing a print and digital news service to resident Italian communities, in Italian and English, and already has other agreements in place for the distribution of Rai Italia in Australia and South America. The audience of Rai's channel is really wide and, today, it can be seen in more than 40 million homes reached through satellite, cable, Iptv and OTT platforms in all continents. Its worldwide audience is represented by more than six million Italians (registered with AIRE) living and working abroad, about eighty million oriundi and two hundred and fifty million Italics. Numbers that are also capable of guaranteeing the validity of the project and fully meet the objectives of the Public Service.
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