Twelve consecutive hours of live broadcasting, 17 cameras, four control rooms, two connected studios and a signal distributed internationally. That is the tally of the effort mounted by San Marino RTV for the pastoral visit of Pope Leo XIV, which kept the Sammarinese public broadcaster on air from 8.30am to 8.30pm.
Secretaries of State Federico Pedini Amati and Rossano Fabbri expressed their satisfaction, highlighting the scale of the journalistic, technical and production effort involved. The organisational machine also included a drone, RTV’s Studio 1 and a studio set up at the Meeting in Rimini, alongside an international control room, two dedicated to customising the signal, and one for the Meeting itself.
The footage produced on Titano reached Europe, North Africa, part of the Americas and Asia, through EWTN, Eurovision and K-TV. The signal was also used by Rai, Mediaset, Sky, TV2000 and Telepace, as well as by leading national news outlets. On the digital front, coverage extended to Vatican Media and RTV’s own channels, with 12,000 registered users on the Sammarinese broadcaster’s YouTube channel alone.
“What we experienced,” Pedini Amati and Fabbri stated jointly, “was much more than a long day of television. It was a concrete demonstration of what it means to be a public broadcaster: telling the story of the country in its most important moments, being present wherever events unfold, putting technology and professionalism at the service of citizens, and carrying the image of the Republic out into the world.”
At the same time, 20 professionals from the team led by Roberto Giacobbo were busy producing the documentary dedicated to the Republic and to the day spent with the Pontiff. RTV also continued to guarantee coverage of the Mediterranean Games in Taranto and the Meeting in Rimini, before moving in the evening to a live Eurovision broadcast of the Notte della Taranta.
The two Secretaries of State closed by thanking journalists, technicians, camera operators, directors, writers and crew members, as well as the general management and the entire company structure, describing the achievement as confirmation of the “strategic value of San Marino RTV for the Republic.”
