Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR, "Italian Body for Radio Broadcasting") was the
public service broadcaster
Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing ...
in
Fascist Italy and the only entity permitted to broadcast by the government.
History
The company was established in 1927, after the partial takeover of the private radio broadcaster
Unione Radiofonica Italiana
Unione radiofonica italiana or URI (the "Italian Radiophonic Union"), was an Italian radio broadcaster founded in Turin on 27 August 1924. It was the exclusive radio broadcaster of the Kingdom of Italy.
History Establishment
On 8 February 1923 ...
(URI), which since 1924 had been the only organisation authorized to establish radio transmitters and run radio broadcasts in Italy. Between 1929 and 1939, the EIAR presented the
first television broadcasting tests in Italy.
An early signing to the TV station in 1939 was the Italian singer
Lia Origoni
Lia Origoni (20 October 1919 – 26 October 2022) was an Italian singer, well known from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Life
Origoni was born in La Maddalena, Sardinia, on 20 October 1919. Her uncle Giacomino Origoni had been an actor in early sile ...
and a film was made to record her performance.
For most of its existence it was run by Giancarlo Vallauri, although he was replaced as president by
Ezio Maria Gray
Ezio Maria Gray (born 9 October 1885 in Novara, Piedmont – died 8 February 1969 in Rome) was an Italian fascist politician and journalist. Gray was the architect of the Grand Design for a Mediterranean Confederation dominated by a Latin Alliance ...
during the
Italian Social Republic
The Italian Social Republic ( it, Repubblica Sociale Italiana, ; RSI), known as the National Republican State of Italy ( it, Stato Nazionale Repubblicano d'Italia, SNRI) prior to December 1943 but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò ...
period.
In October 1944, towards the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, the entity was replaced with Radio Audizioni Italiane (
RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
).
See also
*
Radio Bari The Radio Bari station, broadcasting from Bari in southern Italy, with a power of 20 kW, was commissioned by the Italian national broadcasting company, EIAR, in 1932.
Radio Bari during the Fascist Regime
By decision of the Fascist regime, in ...
References
External links
History of EIAR(in Italian)
Organizations established in 1927
Organizations disestablished in 1944
Publicly funded broadcasters
Government agencies of Italy
Radio stations established in 1927
1927 establishments in Italy
1944 disestablishments in Italy
State media
Former state media
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