Videolina

Videolina is an Italian regional television channel of Sardinia based in the city of Cagliari, its headquarters are located there at L'Unione Sarda's headquarters.

== History == Nicola Grauso, founder of Radiolina, started Videolina on 6 September 1975, becoming one of the first private television stations attempting to break RAI's monopoly. One of its advertising slogans at launching time was "born when it was hard to give birth". It had a small television transmitter, a video recorder and a camera, as well as filmed material obtained from a TV station in Livorno. The first program seen was the Bruno Bozzetto animated film West and Soda, in color, at 9:30pm. Within months, the station gained notoriety. It broadcast in color before RAI's networks did so, they began the process only on 1 February 1977 for three hours a day in an initial phase.