Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol

The Rundfunk -Anstalt Südtirol ( RAS for short ) is an agency of the Italian province of South Tyrol for the distribution of radio and television stations. The RAS produced thereby not contents, but is only responsible for the broadcasting of foreign programs from the German and Ladin culture. The Institute is funded by the State.

History

After the RAI had begun in 1957 with the regular broadcasting of television programming in Italian, German and Ladin-speaking South Tyrol tried to receive German and Ladin-speaking television programs from abroad and broadcast. This was largely unabgesprochen and often illegal means from a private collection erected converter and cable systems. Because of the former monopoly of RAI in Italy, many of these transmitter systems, however, were confiscated by the Postal and Communications Ministry. In 1962 for the first time to the politics of the problem. In February 1974, the province of South Tyrol took over 284 private facilities and signed to agreements with the broadcasters ORF, ZDF, SRG and ARD, which from then on their programs Tyrol ceded free of charge. After frequency allocations, the RAS was founded on March 5, 1975 by state law as a public broadcasting service of the province of South Tyrol.

From 1975-1980 was the establishment of a provisional first broadcasting network, which was extended from 1981-1994 with the construction of a third network for ORF 2, the construction of microwave links and the gain of the transmit power. 1997 launched a pilot project for the introduction of DAB. 2007 began the RAS with the switchover to DVB -T, which was completed in November 2009.

The RAS spread since May 2010, the ORF 1 HD, ORF 2 HD and ZDF HD in HDTV over the MPEG -4 codec. In addition, over the 4th of Mux ARTE, 3sat and the Italian language channels RSI LA 1 can be received. In November 2012, the ORF III and HD offshoot of SRF 1, SRF, and two, the first to be included in the program could offer.

Construction

The RAS operates with currently 26 employees nationwide FM and DAB digital radio and digital TV networks with a total of 113 transmitter sites in South Tyrol.

The FM chains reach this 99.0 % ( exception: Radio Romansh 9.8%) of the South Tyrolean population, DAB ensembles approximately 91 % and the DVB- T multiplexes 99.4%.

Shared

The set up of the RAS antenna carrier and transmission facilities are to be explicitly co-used by other broadcasters and private and public radio services. This is, inter alia, a so-called " mast sprawl " can be avoided.

Other activities

The RAS is also familiar with other projects that contribute to improving basic public through media. She works together with other local telecommunications company.

Previous projects:

• Establishment of the Population Information System ( BIS) for rapid information of the population in Kathastrophenfällen
• Broadband 1 lot ( broadband connection of 14 municipalities)
• Broadband 44 ( broadband connection to other 44 municipalities)
• Mi -friends ( EU research project to promote DMB)
• Coverage in remote areas with mobile and wireless data, which are still under-supplied