Rai 3

Rai 3 (formerly Rete 3) is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It was launched on 15 December 1979 and its programming is centred towards cultural and regional programming. It has always been considered the most left-leaning channel of Italian public television; its direct competitor to Mediaset's Rete 4.

Foreign language programming
In the Aosta Valley, Rai 3 broadcasts programmes in French as well as in Valdôtain dialect.

In the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, Rai Südtirol timeshares broadcast hours in German with Rai 3 when not broadcasting.

In the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Rai 3 BIS (TDD Furlanija Julijska Krajina) is a separate channel which broadcasts daily from 18:40 with a half-hour daily newscast in Slovene, and other shows in Slovene. In accordance with a bilateral cooperation agreement between Italy and Slovenia, Slovene-language shows produced by Rai 3 Bis are also aired on the Slovenian regional television channel TV Koper-Capodistria and on State-owned TV Slovenija 2.

Programs
A few shows include:
 * TG3, Rai 3 main news service
 * TGR, regional news service
 * Gazebo from 3 March 2013 until 19 May 2017. Since 2017, the program's format has been broadcast on LA7, with a new title Propaganda Live.
 * Doc3
 * Quante storie (Rai 3, from 2019)
 * Che tempo che fa, from 15 October 2023 broadcast on Nove, a Television channel edited by Discovery Italia, a Warner Bros. Discovery group division.
 * Chi l'ha Visto?
 * Un Posto al sole (A Place in the Sun) a soap opera airing on Rai 3 since October 21, 1996.
 * Vieni via con me
 * Sabrina the Teenage Witch
 * Law & Order
 * Friends
 * Desperate Housewives
 * The Defenders
 * The Spaghetti Family
 * Glob
 * Inspector Gadget
 * Melevisione
 * Buongiorno Estate
 * UEFA Europa League (one game per matchday live, possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)
 * UEFA Europa Conference League (one game per matchday live, possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)