Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network RAI and broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and on satellite platform Tivù Sat.
On 30 June 2009, RaiSat Cinema was removed from Sky and was launched in the new free-to-view satellite platform Tivùsat.
It broadcasts mostly Italian films, interviews, backstages and documentaries.
This sparked controversy and an online petition that quickly reached 120,000 signatures.
However, the scheduled date for the shutdown is unknown to this day.