Rai Movie is an Italian movie

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, owned by state-owned television network

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and broadcast on

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and on satellite platform Tivù Sat. The channel was launched in 2003 as ''RaiSat Cinema World'' and re-badged in 2006 as ''RaiSat Cinema''. On 31 June 2009, RaiSat Cinema was removed of Sky and was launched in the new free-to-view satellite platform

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. On 18 May 2010 it was renamed ''Rai Movie''. It broadcasts mostly Italian films, interviews, backstages and documentaries. Since 2003 it is the official media partner of the

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and since 2007 of the

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. In April 2019,

announced that this channel, along with

Rai Premium Rai Premium is an Italian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts reruns of popular fiction and films that were produced by State-owned broadcaster RAI RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known unt ...

, will shut down to make place for a new channel called Rai 6, with a female target. This sparked controversy and an online petition that quickly reached 120.000 signatures. However, the scheduled date for the shutdown is unknown to this day.

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