In July 1999, with the transfer from Rai's staff that was employed towards thematic channels, the company began to produce the first pay satellite platform networks for Tele+, then reorganized under Sky.

But at the end of the decade, Rai decided not to extend its agreement with Sky, which resulted in RaiSat's final closure in 2010.

Any RaiSat channels that were still active by this point, transitioned to become free to air on DTT and on Tivùsat.

On 31 July 2009, at the end of lengthy negotiations, Rai wasn't able to renew the contract with Sky for the transmission of RaiSat channels.

The available channels spared down to 4 and they were no longer visible in the Sky bouquet, but on terrestrial television and the Tivùsat satellite platform as well as streaming on Rai.tv: On 18 May 2010, Rai absorbed the company, and reorganized all channels by changing their name (with the removal of the word Sat) and directly overseeing the program schedules, as a result: On 26 November 2010, Rai Extra was closed and replaced by Rai 5.