Educational Television Goes Digital. Children’s Television and Italian Public Service Broadcasting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Since its origins in the Fifties, Rai has always paid attention to pedagogical aspects of offer, consistent with Catholic inspiration, combining different genres and divulgation approaches. In first years history, Italian public television represented a “second school” for targets, producing iconic titles learning training. A particular branch educational approach content often been by direct involvement school groups within programs, logic game soft competition oriented transmission knowledge. During Covid-19 pandemic, closure schools deployment distance teaching, recovered pivotal role practices through TV programs; period marked an increase audiovisual consumption, service broadcasting played distinctive diversifying opportunities students adults.