Rome, January 16, 2017 – Video Progetti, one of the leading Italian broadcast distributor and system integrator has been contracted by Rai, the national public broadcaster, with the design and construction of 4 Ka-Sat SNGs.

With this project Video Progetti will deliver innovative and cost-effective turn key external news gathering (ENG) systems able of working in the most extreme conditions.

Once in possess of the SNGs Rai will improve its already qualitative and modern SNG fleet and will be able of reporting news even with the most stressful whether and bandwidth conditions.

Video Progetti has been entrusted for full responsibility for project management, system design, system implementation, testing and training.

Video Progetti S.r.l. is a leading Italian company which has been working for over 20 years in the distribution and integration of professional equipment for television, cinema and telecommunications. Having offices both in Rome and Milan, Video Progetti is constantly in touch with the key players in these fields and participates in the development of the broadcast industry by offering our clients the most up-to-date production technology.

Rai is the leading Italian multimedia group, active in all segments of the audiovisual market: digital terrestrial and satellite TV, radio, web, mobile, cinema, home video and publishing.

Rai broadcasts the widest free-to-air offering in Italy and Europe through its core digital terrestrial TV platform, with 14 generalist, semi-generalist and specialist channels.It also operates a parallel satellite TV offering, which not only broadcasts Rai’s range of digital terrestrial channels, but also includes Rai Italia and Euro News. Rai is available via streaming and on demand through all web-enabled devices (smart TV, tablet, smartphone, computer, etc.), via its website and the Rai.tv app.