[5] On 3 June 1924, Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano addressed a letter to the companies who requested the licence, inviting them to find an agreement.
On 6 October 1924, at 9 pm, the first URI station of San Filippo in Rome, produced by Marconi, broadcast the first regular announcement read by Maria Luisa Boncompagni:[6] Italian Radiophonic Union.
Inaugural symphonic concert.Shortly after, Ines Viviani Donarelli, from the Roman station of Corrodi Palace, presented the first programme: URI (Unione Radiofonica Italiana).
The quartet formed by Ines Viviani Donarelli, who is speaking, Alberto Magalotti, Amedeo Fortunati and Alessandro Cicognani, will perform Haydn from the Opus 7 string quartet, I and II half.The programme, which lasted one hour and a half, broadcast opera, chamber and classical music along with a weather report and news about the stock exchange.
[10] With that decree, URI was considered the only Italian radio broadcaster to be authorized to spread news of public interest and the government was the only one to approve the news broadcasting from press agencies different from Agenzia Stefani, the official source as well as the first Italian press agency founded in 1853 by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour.
According to the Royal Law Decree n. 2207 of 17 November 1927,[12] URI became the Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR) in January 1928.