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Information is an essential tool for all of us, every day we are bombed with a great deal of data coming from various sources. Our days are practically articulated by news on the radio, news on TV, newspapers or specialized magazines. Now Italians are tending towards other sources of information, after television, mobile phones are being used. These are evolving more and more from a simple telephone to a multimedia centre, able to provide information, publicity, images and much more.

The radio remains a good source of information and it follows mobile phones and comes before newspapers in the list of the information sources used most by Italians. On the list books, weekly reviews, internet and monthly reviews follow, the last on the list is satellite TV, which is still not watched much.

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The press, every day a ton of information.

Every night hundreds of printers, journalists and editors are awake to give us the possibility to find nationally spread newspapers right in the news stands near our homes. Many of us find newspapers necessary to begin our day, because we like to have an idea of the last news concerning our country and foreign ones too. Politics, economy, sports and fashion, all fresh news for us every day.

Each daily newspaper or almost all of them, have a political tendency and it is hard to find articles that are totally peaceful and not politically oriented, even though most of them don't declare it officially, you can realize yourself which part they sustain just by reading them. Naturally it is clear in those newspapers that they are an official organ of a determined political party, however it would be really nice to be able to find news written and expressed in a neutral way in our daily newspapers.

Television audio video and continuous updates.

Television is for sure the most direct media used and the one which has the biggest communicative success of all, since it enters our homes, in some cases almost in every room, directly and powerfully.

In Italy there are two large groups who share the audience, the public one which is called RAI , with its three major channels RAI uno, RAI due and RAI tre which proposes a palimpsest formed by various formats, national news and regional news on RAI tre, films, TV sitcoms, fiction shows and programmes for the younger audience, with a yearly payment which is due at the beginning of the year. The national televisions also have an income from publicities.

The second large group is Mediaset which has three main channels which are Retequattro, Canale Cinque and Italia Uno. This group also has a good variety of programmes divided in the three channels but without asking for payments since it has its income from the publicities which are shown continuously, interrupting the programmes shown for a few minutes at a time.

The Radio, still a valid source of information.

The radio in Italy is still very present during our days and it keeps us company during our trips in the car, highways, everywhere, giving us continuous updates on the news and information regarding the weather and traffic.

The channels which have most listeners and which are more spread out are surely the national ones of the RAI, such as RADIORAI uno, RADIORAI due and RADIORAI tre. There are also a good number of local radio stations, the so-called free radios that are present on a local and regional level, just some of these are so powerful to cover the national territory, but there are some very interesting cases which work in a very professional manner, giving updates on the news besides music and entertainment.

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