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Santoro Sides with Hamas

Michele Santoro runs a political chat show on the RAI television channel. The show, Annozero, is often controversial and has rubbed Italy’s sensitive politicians the wrong way on more than one occasion.

A Battle Royal

Watch What I Want

Over the last few months in Italy there has been an inordinately long battle for the chairmanship of a commission which is supposed to oversee the operation of Italy’s RAI state TV channels.

Zero Tolerance

I watched an interesting fly on the wall type documentary the other day entitled ‘Tolleranza Zero’ – ‘Zero Tolerance’ (Yes, at times Italian and English are extremely similar). This program was shown on La7, one of Italy’s public TV channels, and was about, as you might expect, how the Italian police are dealing with crime […]

Piedmont and Campania regional TV news in Lombardy! Something’s up.

About the only news worth watching on Italian TV is that of RAI 3. There is even a regional programme, the only one on Italian TV, that covers the events in the region of Italy in which you live. Usually. At the moment, our Internet and digital TV provider, Fastweb, appears to be having a […]

When bad is good.

Vanna Marchi is a convicted swindler.  She conned people out of money, in a rather despicable fashion, and was convicted and actually sent to prison (Info about this lady is here, in Italian, alas).  Yet, this criminal has done her time and is now doing her very best to make a comeback as a TV […]

RAI or Sky?

I’ve been thinking about this lately.  You can choose who provides with you a phone line, who connects you to the www, and even, increasingly, who supplies your gas and electricity.  But can you choose who provides you with TV?  The answer is yes and no.  Yes, you can choose to add another TV service, […]

An interesting question

I’m running a course at a company which supplies electronic payment machines, or POSs.  The guy that manages the office is something of a polyglot and speaks English, French and Spanish, in addition to his native Italian. No, I’m not teaching him, he already knows more than enough to get by.  However, he possesses an […]

Italian TV yet again

I heard it on the news last night.  Recent audience figures from the Auditel TV monitoring body have confirmed that Italians want better quality TV.  Goody, goody.  The brain numbing effect of all the low quality trashy TV programmes has finally made Italians vomit their feelings.  Good for them.  Berlusco will not be a happy […]

Ch, ch, ch, changes

Over the years in Italy various journalists and entertainers have been banned and excluded from television, usually because they made claims, often through satire, about politicians and governments which were not at all appreciated by said politicians and governments. Beppe Grillo was one such personality who made himself unpopular. Others are Enzo Biagi, Michele Santoro, […]