TG3 is the brand for Italian state-owned TV channel Rai Tre's news program

News program

A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors...

mes. They are shown domestically on Rai Tre

Rai Tre

Rai 3 is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 . Rai 3 first started transmissions on December 15, 1979. In the eighties it was under the predominant political influence of the Italian Communist Party...

 and across the Europe on Rai News 24 and the world on Raitalia

Rai Italia

Rai Italia is the international television service of Rai Internazionale, a subsidiary of RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. Rai Italia operates a television network that broadcasts around the world via 3 localized feeds...

 several times throughout the day. The evening edition is also show on Rai Med

Rai Med

Rai Med is an Italian television channel owned and operated by RAI.Mainly devoted to Maghreb area, provide Arabic and Italian programming from RAI, in particular the evening edition of TG3 news program dubbed in Arabic....

 with Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 dubbing.
The editor-in-chief of the show is Bianca Berlinguer.

Programme format

The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 but with additional newsreaders for the Weather, Sports and other programs. Most items will be made up of reports and are generally preceded and followed by the correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

 reporting live from the scene of the report.

Daily programme

Where also broadcasted many others feature with TG3 brand, all on Rai Tre

Rai Tre

Rai 3 is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 . Rai 3 first started transmissions on December 15, 1979. In the eighties it was under the predominant political influence of the Italian Communist Party...

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• GT Ragazzi (devoted to a youth audiences, live from Rome, Italy)

Criticism and controversies

The Undersecretary to Communications Paolo Romani, member of The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....

, in an interview with the newspaper Il Tempo

Il Tempo

Il Tempo is a daily Italian newspaper. It was founded in Rome, Italy by Renato Angiolillo in 1944 and currently publishes the Rome edition and other five local editions ....

, has defined that the TG3 "is politically affiliate with the Leftists".

Presenters

• TG3 ore 12:00: Massimo Donelli, Manuela Falcone, Annamaria Levorin, Paolo Pasi.

• TG3 ore 14:20: Floriana Bertelli, Alessandra Carli, Mariella Venditti.

• TG3 ore 19:00: Maria Cuffaro, Giuliano Giubilei, Riccardo Chartroux.

• TG3 ore 21:10.

• TG3 Mezzasera: Roberto Balducci, Sergio Criscuoli, Flavio Fusi, Lucia Goracci, Elisabetta Margonari, Roberta Serdoz.

• TG3 Linea Notte.