RSI_La_2 Knowpia

RSI La 2
Country	Switzerland
Programming
Language(s)	Italian
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana
Sister channels	RSI La 1
History
Launched	1 September 1997
Replaced	Schweiz 4 (1995–1997)
Former names	TSI 2 (1997–2009)
Links
Website	http://la2.rsi.ch/
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Channel 712; (only for Italian-speaking Switzerland; ceased on 3 June 2019)

RSI La 2 (RSI La due) is a Swiss public television channel owned by Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua Italiana. It is a sister channel of RSI La 1, broadcast in Italian. It mainly airs sport programmes, but also reruns and music shows. It does not broadcast any newscasts.

History edit

TSI launched its second channel in 1997, basing it on programming for a younger audience and sports. Unlike RSI La 1, RSI La 2 is not broadcast across the whole of Switzerland, but only in the Italian-speaking Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

The channel ended analogue broadcasts on 24 July 2006, from that date being available only on digital terrestrial television, satellite and cable. It was the first channel of the SRG SSR network to make the transition.