and from 1998, the competition has also awarded multimedia projects created on web digital platforms. Over the years it has been hosted in many of the most famous Italian cities of art.

The idea of an international radio award was proposed in 1948 by the director general of Rai, Salvino Sernesi, the director of programmes Giulio Razzi and the director of the drama and revue sector, the playwright Sergio Pugliese. On 13 September of the same year in Capri, the delegations of fourteen radio organisations representing Austria, the Vatican