All sport, everywhere, minute by minute

From the Europa League to the ATP Finals at the end of the season, passing through the Italian tennis internationals, the European athletics championships in Rome and the football championships in Germany, great cycling with the Giro and Tour and, of course, the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. The next few months will be full of sporting events and Rai, in full compliance with its public service mission, will be committed to the maximum editorial and technological capabilities to guarantee their enjoyment to the largest possible number of fans. All of this, visible, listenable and usable, as stated in the claim of the presentation press conference, “Everywhere, minute by minute”: not only on TV, both on the generalist networks and on Rai Sport Hd, RaiNews 24, RaiNews.it and Rai Italia, but also on the radio, on Radio 1 and Radio 1 Sport, and in streaming, live, on demand or through the app, on Rai Play and on RaiPlay Sound. Everywhere, in fact.
From a chronological point of view, the first events will be the two UEFA Europa League derbies from the Nyon box: Thursday 11 and Thursday 18 April, again in prime time on Rai 1, immediately after the 8.00 pm Tg1, here is Milan-Roma and Roma-Milan, one unique at the level of European competitions, given that the two teams have never faced each other in competitions outside national borders. The Europa League program will also continue with the two semi-finals on 2 and 9 May – in which at least one Italian team will be present – and, in the event of qualification of an Italian team (Atalanta is also in the running for the trophy ), also for the final in Dublin on 22 May.
A month, May, during which tennis and cycling will also be protagonists: almost simultaneously, in fact, the 2024 edition of the Giro d’Italia will start on Saturday 4th at the Reggia di Venaria Reale, just outside Turin, and, Monday 6th, the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, with the matches of the first rounds. The story of the Giro d’Italia, as always, will be practically complete, with “Prima Diretta”, i.e. the first kilometers of the 21 stages live on Rai Sport HD – which will also host the program “Giro Mattina, dal Vilaggio starting” – and then, from 2.00 pm, on Rai 2, the commentary until the conclusion, to immediately leave the line to the “Processo alla Tappa” while, in the evening, on Rai Sport HD, the other two dedicated programmes, “TGiro” will be broadcast and “Night Tour”.
The return of the Rai cameras to the tennis center of the Foro Italico, however, will take place with the live coverage of one match a day – 11 in total – with seven matches scheduled on one of the three generalist channels (Rai 1, Rai 2 or Rai 3 ), four of which in prime time.
From June to August, however, Rai’s sports offering will include, in succession, athletics, football, cycling again with the Tour de France and the Olympics. The European Athletics Championships in Rome, from 7 to 12 June, will be broadcast in full on Rai 2, from 9.30 to 13.00 (morning session) and from 18.00 to 23.00 (afternoon/evening session), with windows on Rai Sport Hd in case of simultaneous broadcasts of events or in the spaces dedicated to Tg2 information.
For UEFA Euro 2024, scheduled in Germany from 14 June to 14 July, the Rai schedule will be made up of twenty matches of the first phase (evening matches on Rai 1 in prime time, afternoon matches on Rai 2), and then, all on Rai 1, four round of 16 matches, the four quarter-final matches, the two semi-finals and the final.
Starting from the second week of the European football championship, the Tour de France will take place, starting on 29 June from Florence. For the first time in history, in fact, the Big Boucle will start from our country, with three stages paying homage to the great champions of the Italian pedal: Florence-Rimini, Bologna-Cesenatico and Piacenza-Turin. The Tour, like the Giro, will also “live” practically on Rai 2 and Rai Sport HD, with a full story and with three dedicated sections, “Tour Replay”, “Tour in the evening” and “Tour in the night”.
And Rai 2, as in past editions of the Games, will be the “Olympic network”, with live coverage, from 7.30 am to midnight, including the evening program “The Circle of Rings”, of the Paris Olympics. Not only that: this year, for the first time, Rai 2 will also be the “Paralympic network”, with live commentary of all twelve days of the competition, from Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 8 September.
Finally, tennis again, with the final phase of the Davis Cup, in which Italy will defend the title won in Malaga last year, after almost half a century of unsuccessful attempts, and with the ATP Finals in Turin, which in November, from 10 to 17, will pit the best eight players on the men’s circuit and the best eight doubles pairs against each other.
In short, there is enough for all fans of all sports. “Everywhere, minute by minute”, in fact.