Radio2

And it is the Internet that extends the life of programmes and proposes new forms of fruition.

Radio2 can be reached on the main social networks, on Smartphones and on iPads.
The renewed website is easily accessible and it is possible to download the podcasts of programmes, concerts, playlists, listen to historical programmes and watch the most important shows comfortably seated at home, thanks to video streaming. Il ruggito del coniglio, 610, Radio2 Supermax, Ottovolante, Caterpillar are the programmes that, with record figures, dominate the iTunes top ten – the ranking of the podcasts with most downloads – together with the most successful plays in the channel’s recent history, a perfect example being Il mercante di fiori by Diego Cugia.

The Radio2 format adapts particularly well to television use, maintaining the costs of radio. The evening specials of 610 in 2D have become a veritable cult.
Broadcast live on the radio and in video streaming on the Radio2 website, from Sala A in Via Asiago, Lillo and Greg and Alex Braga, accompanied by the Blues Willies Band and Max Paiella, did six appointments together with Nino Frassica, Max Pezzali, Caterina Guzzanti, Massimo Bagnato, Virginia Raffaele and numerous other comedians and actors. The live show from Teatro Valle occupato di Roma, with free admission, was sold out. This was a live broadcast created to show listeners and the studio audience what you can only hear on the radio.

Then there was Jukebox all’idrogeno, an all-music channel on the Internet which was added to the daily radio programming.
Big hits, successes, auteur music and emerging artists cohabit in this computerised jukebox. So it isn’t an alternative, but an enrichment of the channel’s offering.

The presence of listeners in programmes is encouraged and strengthened.
The audience has become an integral part of Il Ruggito with Coniglio da camera (two weekly appointments); of Radio2 Supermax every day; of Circo Massimo and Radio2 Social club; of Live Specials in 2D of 610 and of events like Max Paiella’s one-man show, another experiment involving the partnership of radio, television and web, or Radio2 Social Christmas, a charity evening in support of the Community of Sant’Egidio.

Radio2 incessantly feeds its travelling vocation: not only the bus as a showcase for events of major visibility, but also theatres, auditoriums, town squares and historical buildings in towns and cities all over Italy which have requested and hosted the channel’s most famous voices.
The Rome International Film Festival, of which Radio2 is official broadcaster, witnessed the broadcasting of most of the programming from the show bus and from an outdoor stage set up especially for the occasion.
The thousands of people who applauded Max Giusti in a special version or Lillo & Greg for the first time at the Festival are proof of the consolidated popularity of the personalities and the type of entertainment offered by Radio2.

As regards personalities, the Radio2 team boats a long list in progress of names that a familiar to the general public:
Antonello Dose, Marco Presta, Massimo Cirri, Antonio Di Bella, Paolo Maggioni, Filippo Solibello, Benedetta Tobagi, Lillo and Greg, Alex Braga, Barbara Palombelli, Luca Barbarossa, Andrea Perroni, Chiara Gamberale, Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Giorgio Lauro, Dario Ballantini, Savino Zaba, Carlo Pastore, Mario Tozzi, Federica Cifola, Enrico Vaime, Nuzzo and Di Biase, Neri Marcorè, Zap Mangusta, Michele Cucuzza, Chiara Giallonardo, Max Giusti, Francesca Zanni, Andrea Santonastaso, Cecilia Dazzi, Massimo De Luca, Teresa Mannino, Lorenzo Scoles, Massimo Cervelli, John Vignola, Marco Pesatori, Petra Loreggian, Fede and Tinto, Virginia Raffaele, Ubaldo Pantani, Federica Gentile, Michela Andreozzi, Silvia Boschero, Alessio Bertallot, Irene Lamedica, Raffaele Costantino, Nino Frassica, Simone Cristicchi, Dario Vergassola, Lorenzo Marini, Luca Bianchini, Maria Vittoria Scartozzi, Lele Sacchi, Ernesto Goio, Luciana Biondi, Ciccio Valenti, Max Laudadio, Roberto Gentile, Lucia Cosmetico, Nicoletta Simeone and guest stars of memorable programmes: Piero Chiambretti, Vinicio Capossela and Nina Zilli, Silvio Muccino and Carla Vangelista, Arturo Brachetti, Ficarra and Picone, Ligabue.

The channel’s traditionally important programmes continue to attract audiences – Il ruggito del coniglio, 610, Decanter, Black out, 28 minuti, Twilight, Brave ragazze – all of which are successful and unique.

Caterpillar and Effetto notte have been renewed.
Filippo Solibello and Massimo Cirri have parted company: the first opens the channel’s programming at dawn in Caterpillar AM with the journalist and writer Benedetta Tobagi, while the second has stayed with the 6.00 p.m. appointment with Caterpillar, with the Director of Rai 3 Antonio Di Bella and a new entry, the young Paolo Maggioni.
Lorenzo Scoles changes partner in Effetto Notte: with Massimo Cervelli he explores the world of film, looking at blockbusters, documentaries and indie productions.

Max Giusti has triplicated his presence with Radio 2 Supermax: from Monday to Friday in a short slot at 7.20 a.m., from 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and in formula Best on Saturday morning. The popular comedian and actor has returned to pure entertainment, proposing the imitations that made him famous and new characters created especially for the programme, characterised by live music – with a vocalist and a 5-piece band – studio audience and special guests ready to improvise and get involved. He’s joined by Francesca Zanni, a voice familiar to radio audiences thanks to her ironic and witty presentation style.

Then there are new couples and not during the weekend: Michele Cucuzza and Chiara Giallonardo in the container Radio2 Days accompanied listeners light-heartedly among news, games, surveys, analyses with a close eye on current affairs.

Nino Frassica and Simone Cristicchi in Meno male che c’è Radio2 found themselves in the party room in Via Asiago, when smoking’s not allowed but dinner jackets are the norm, to converse freely, with good live music, jokes and famous guests.

Luca Bianchini and Maria Vittoria Scartozzi provide the wake-up call with Tiffany. News, show previews, books for a breakfast prepared by a writerjournalist and by a jurist on loan to astrology and the radio.

2011 saw the return of Jack Folla, a product of the pen and imagination of Diego Cugia, with a selection of thoughts and reflections that are always bang up to date for the millions of fans who, in recent years, have asked for the chance to listen to the Alcatraz cycle.

Circo Massimo confirms its role as the point of reference of Sunday sporting information: Massimo De Luca, Massimo Cervelli and Andrea Perroni follow the Serie A football championship from a big screen together with celebrity guests from the worlds of entertainment and sport to tell the events in their own words. Then there’s more sport with Fantacalcio, 11 secchi and Bidone d’oro, the competitions launched by Sergio Ferrentino in the evening of Catersport.

Astrologer Marco Pesatori doubles his appointment: he maintained the Saturday and Sunday space with Petra Loreggian in Astrologica and debuted at 7.56 in the morning with Minime astrologiche, giving the daily horoscope for every sign of the zodiac, repeated at 12.57 p.m..

Space was also given to scientific information with Tellus (on Saturday from 3.00 to 4.00 p.m.) with geologist Mario Tozzi and comedy actress Federica Cifola.

Music is the engine of Radio2 which redesigned the evening offering.

Moby Dick with Silvia Boschero, Pop Corner by Francesco Adinolfi and the big concerts in Via Asiago are the mainstays of the channel’s musical programming. Francesco Renga, Raphael Gualazzi, Subsonica, Alain Clark, Artic Monkeys, Calibro 35, Luca Carboni, Coldplay and Michael Franti, are just some of the big names that performed on the stage in Sala A.

The traditional classification of the bestselling records has become high-tech starting with the name: Hit Parade Eurosonic handed over presentation from Federica Gentile to Lele Sacchi.

Alessio Bertallot with Rai Tunes (Monday – Friday from 10.30 p.m. to midnight) perfectly interpreted Radio2’s musical style, pinned on the dynamic interaction with the Internet thanks to the links of tracks present on the web suggested by listeners, which are then played on the radio: the first example of a social networking radio-show.

Carlo Pastore explores all dance genres, from electronic to dub, from house to hip hop: Babylon goes on air on weekend nights.

Irene Lamedica with her Urban Suite speaks on the cohabitation of the sacred and the profane, between culture and entertainment, and represents a hip hop reality lived with soul sensitivity.

Musical Box is Radio2’s magic box, which contains the best of every genre and style of music in circulation. New sounds and releases that narrate contemporaneity and its cultural ferments, along with the possibility to discover or rediscover great artists of the past, old LPs and less well known productions.

Then there are other big names in Italian entertainment: the irreverent Piero Chiambretti, who talked about Sanremo Music Festival like only he knows how; Vinicio Capossela with his monograph Marinai, profeti e balene in ten weekly episodes, with the songs from the album of the same name, presented exclusively; Nina Zilli, an artist with a strong and original personality, with the twelve episodes of Stay Soul.

The programmes that marked the new course of Radio2 also decreed its relaunch.

The writer Chiara Gamberale with Io, Chiara e l’oscuro won the challenge with a complex format and in a time slot which has always been very difficult for Radio Rai, expanding its user basin to younger listeners.
Every third Tuesday in the month, live, from 10.00 to 11.00 a.m. Chiara Gamberale opened the doors or the studios in Via Asiago to her psycholisteners – mainly high school students – to give life to a real group therapy. A way of meeting, reflecting and listening to live auteur music.

Un giorno da pecora with Claudio Sabelli Fioretti and Giorgio Lauro is now a constant reference for political broadcasters but particularly for all those people bored with the ‘bogged down’ interviews characterising television talk shows. Record figures for the podcast of Ottovolante by Dario Ballantini and Savino Zaba and for the snippets of philosophy of Zap Mangusta which proved that culture can be presented in an ironic and popular way.

In the studios of Via Asiago its time to sing with the band of Radio2 Social Club: Luca Barbarossa and Virginia Raffaele were joined by the young Andrea Perroni with his imitations. Christmas gave Radio2 listeners the return of Silvio Muccino and Carla Vangelista: Rivoluzione N 9, a journey through the world of Sixties’ and Nineties’ fashion and customs, and Instant Karma, which looks at the destinies and stories of ten big names who have left an indelible mark in the world of film, music, sport and entertainment.