s dtirol italian radiotelevisione azienda speciale ladin radiotelevijion azienda per s dtirol is a public broadcasting service for the majority german speaking province of south tyrol italy whose purpose is to relay programmes from the public broadcasters of austria germany german and romansh switzerland . the agency has its headquarters in the province s capital city bolzano . ras is not to be confused with the regional trilingual programme of rai the italian public broadcaster . ras is completely funded by grants of the regional government . contents 1 history 2 organization 3 programmes 3.1 television 3.2 radio 4 references 5 external links history edit when television broadcasts began the german speaking population of south tyrol asked for the reception of the austrian television station but it wasn t possible because rai has the monopoly to have radio and television stations . in 1966 the italian government in rome created the german speaking broadcast of rai from bolzano called rai s dtirol back then rai sender bozen but the german speaking population just wanted to have the possibility to watch the television station from austria and perceived the offer from rome suspiciously . citation needed the german speaking broadcast of the government owned rai was seen as a way to control the process of autonomy in the province . citation needed the provincial autonomy for south tyrol in 1972 promised to create an agency whose purpose was to relay programmes from austria and other german speaking countries . the autonomous statute says that the province shall have the power to issue laws on local artistic cultural and educational events and activities and also through the media of radio and television but without the power to set up radio and television stations . 1 the ras nowadays owns all antenna towers in south tyrol and has worked for the digitization of its broadcasting system . ras cooperates with the local civil protection corps to give information to the people of south tyrol in case of emergency . organization edit ras is a public company which is formed by a board elected for 2 3 by the government of the autonomous province of south tyrol . according to the agency the ras employs 26 workers . while the italian public broadcaster rai is funded by licence fees and advertising ras is completely funded by provincial funds . all the public broadcasters give the possibility to ras to relay their programmes without any cost provincial citizens don t have to pay extra license fees . south tyrol is actually the only province in italy to have two public broadcasting services operating the provincial german language broadcast from rai and the 6 ras tv channels . the general director is helmuth hendrich . programmes edit television edit ras relays television stations from the public broadcasters of austria germany and switzerland in digital terrestrial television using dvb t. analogue television was used between 1974 until the completion of the digitization process . until the completion of the digitization process the digital only channels can not be seen in either analog or vice versa . the network has completed its digitization process which started in 2007 and completed in november 2009 . in some areas the terrestrial reception of some channels is not possible . the on screen design of ras is a small writing down on the right of the screen . television channels carried by ras since 1975 orf 1 zdf since 1988 das erste sf 1 orf 2 since 2005 sf 2 since 2009 bayerisches fernsehen ki.ka zdfneo since 2010 3sat arte la 1 zdf hd orf 1 hd orf 2 hd radio edit ras relays radio stations also from the public broadcasters of austria germany and switzerland in fm and dab . radio stations carried by ras rai radio 1 rai radio 2 rai radio 3 rai s dtirol radio 1 2 radio tirol hitradio 3 fm4 bayern 1 bayern 2 bayern 3 br klassik b5 aktuell radijojo radio rumantsch radio swiss jazz deutschlandradio kultur dab . references edit autonomous province of bolzano bozen autonomous statute chapter 3 art. 8 4 pdf . archived from the original pdf on 2006 10 05 . retrieved 2006 10 15 . external links edit ras authority control worldcat identities viaf 134637187 gnd 405160 9 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rundfunk anstalt s dtirol & oldid 667961398 categories companies established in 1975german language media in south tyrolmedia companies of italyhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2008articles with unsourced statements from june 2013wikipedia articles with viaf identifierswikipedia articles with gnd identifiers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page 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