User:TheMaster001/RTC history

20th Century

 * 1961: RTC, short for Radio Televisione Calascetti, is founded by Giovanni Calascetti and his family.
 * 1979: RTC Music is launched.
 * 1986: A new logo is launched.
 * 1993: RTC Chrono and RTC Cartoons are launched.
 * 1995: RTC Edu and RTC Bio are launched.
 * 1997: RTC Cinema is launched by uniting several movie channels owned by RTC.
 * 1999: RTC World is launched by uniting several local channels owned by RTC.

21st Century

 * 2002: RTC Nascar is launched. After the death of Giovanni Calascetti, the founder, RTC passes under the ownership of the son Vincenzo.
 * 2003: A new logo is introduced, along with RTC 1, RTC 2, RTC 3 and RTC HiDef.
 * 2004: RTC 4 and RTC NonStop are launched.
 * 2005: RTC 5 and RTC News are launched.
 * 2006: RTC Sports is launched. Italian channels XLIV-TV (NBC, Rome), XTVM-TV (CBS, Milan) and XTRN-TV (ABC, Turin) are bought by RTC.
 * 2007: XNPL-TV (Fox News, Naples) and XGNA-TV (The CW, Genoa) are bought by RTC.
 * 2010: RTC Nature is launched.
 * 2012: RTC HiDef stops broadcasting and is replaced by RTC Español, RTC Nihongo, RTC Al Arabiyya and RTC Zhongwen.