Rai Scuola

Rai Scuola (English: Rai School) is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Rai Cultura, an arm of state-owned broadcaster RAI. Launched in 1999 as Rai Edu Lab, the channel adopted its current name in 2009.

The channel broadcasts documentary, cultural and educational learning programming in 2 languages, Italian and English.

Replacing RaiSat 3 - Encyclopedia, the channel was born on June 28, 1999 under the name of Rai Educational Sat and was originally broadcast only via satellite. On 10 June 2002, after the channel was split, it changed its name to Rai Edu 1 and on 19 October 2009 to Rai Scuola.

From 3 February 2004 Rai Edu 1 also became available on digital terrestrial television in most of the Italian national territory with Mux B.

From 2 February 2009 it was replaced in this multiplex by Rai Storia, but the channel's broadcasts on digital terrestrial continued until 18 May 2010, when the logos of the Rai channels were renewed.

From 21 December 2011 the channel returned to broadcast on digital terrestrial for the areas covered by Mux 2 until 14 September 2015. It currently broadcasts on RAI Mux B.

From January 4, 2017, the channel began broadcasting in high definition on the Tivùsat satellite platform.

On 10 April 2017 Rai Scuola renews its logo, graphics and colours, going from lilac to orange.

From 20 October 2021, the standard definition version on digital terrestrial switches to MPEG-4 encoding while remaining visible only on HD devices.

• Rai Scuola's third logo, used from 2002 to 19 October 2009.
• Rai Scuola's fourth logo, used from 19 October 2009 to 18 May 2010.
• Rai Scuola's fifth and previous logo, used from 18 May 2010 to 9 April 2017.
• Rai Scuola's sixth and current logo since 10 April 2017.

• RAI
• Rai Storia
• Rai Nettuno Sat 1

• Official Site (in Italian)