RAI's production center in Naples ( it, Centro di produzione Rai di Napoli) is one of four regional television and radio production centers belonging to the Italian

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. The center is located in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

in southern Italy, while the other three production centers are located in

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and

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. Construction began in the late 1950s, and the center was opened on 7 March 1963 by

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Amintore Fanfani.

Venue and facilities

The center is located on Via Guglielmo Marconi near to San Paolo Stadium, in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples. The center has six TV studios with a total space of 1,227 square meters and room for 370 spectators. The studios are used to produce television programs, debates, drama series and soap operas which are then broadcast on the broadcaster Rai's channels. The center's largest facility is the ''Auditorium Rai di Napoli'', a concert hall with around 1,000 seats designed by artcitects Renato Avolio De Martino, and Raffaele Contigiani. The hall has a floor area of 800 square meters, and on the stage there is a large pipe organ. Rai has produced and recorded a number of radio and television concerts in the hall, including the

1965 Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the tenth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Naples, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. Organised by the European ...

. After a renovation of the auditorium in the 2000s by the Neapolitan studio Gnosis Architettura, the number of seats was reduced to 600 and the organ was renovated. The center also houses the historical archives of the

Canzone Napoletana Canzone napoletana (), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song ( nap, canzona napulitana ), is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented b ...

, the traditional form of music performed in the local Neapolitan language. The archive contains over 50,000 classical Neapolitan songs.

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