Rai, a 40 million project to upgrade the Naples Production Centre
Co-financing from the Campania Region of €16 million is planned. Work to start in 2026 for completion in 2029
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To tell what the Rai Production Centre in Naples really represents, the press conference presenting the redevelopment project opens with a video. It lasts four minutes. It begins and ends with images of Pino Daniele: a tribute that is also a sign. Inside there is a story made up of artists, skills, the television of a time that was and that must now look to the future. And, inevitably, one also thinks of an Italy that may no longer exist, but whose cultural heritage remains a lever for building what is to come.
The bond between RAI and Naples is deep. And it was forcefully reaffirmed by the CEO of public TV, Giampaolo Rossi, and the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, during the presentation of the project that aims to completely renovate the Neapolitan production hub.
'This is a very important moment,' stressed Governor De Luca, 'not least because, although we are talking about many years ago, I remember well the rumours that assumed that Naples would be abandoned. That was not and will not be the case'. CEO Rossi, for his part, confirmed the company's commitment: 'This is a RAI that chooses to invest in the territory, in Naples, because as a public service it represents a point of balance for the entire Italian cultural industry. And Naples, together with Campania, continues to be an excellence'.
Work is scheduled to start in 2026 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2029. All this for a project that is part of a broader Building Plan, drawn up together with the Industrial Plan and presented in recent months. During the works, activities will be temporarily relocated to the nearby Mostra d'Oltremare.
The total value of the intervention amounts to 40 million euro, 16 of which have been allocated by the Campania Region. "We are talking about an immense heritage," De Luca continued, "that holds the archives of the RAI in Naples, of Neapolitan song, and numerous cultural testimonies of our country. Our co-funding aims to make the Centre seismically safe, but also to expand it and equip it with innovative technologies, to make it fully competitive'.
