(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 11 - Angelo Guglielmi, historical director of Rai3, passed away in the night at the age of 93.
Originally from Arona, in the province of Novara, where he was born on April 2, 1929, in his long and very active life at least four are hiding: that of the literary critic, the director of the third television network, the president of the Istituto Luce and finally the councilor for Culture for the Municipality of Bologna, as well as an established columnist and prolific writer.
He joined Rai in 1955, directed Rai3 from 1987 to 1994, creating a bold and innovative network and creating what has been called reality TV.
Under his direction, programs such as Samarkand, Blob, Yellow Telephone, Quelli che il calcio, La TV delle donne, Avanzi, Mi mandaLubrano, Who has seen it ?, Last minute and One day in the magistrate's court were launched and characters such as Michele Santoro, SerenaDandini were launched. , Fabio Fazio, Piero Chiambretti, Giuliano Ferrara and Daniele Luttazzi.
The average share of the network went from less than 1% to over 10% in a few years.
From 1995 to 2001 Guglielmi was also president and managing director of the Istituto Luce.
From 2004 to 2009 he was called by Sergio Cofferati to the municipal council of Bologna as councilor for culture.
He was a member from 2001 to 2004 of the Advisory Committee of the Encyclopedia delcinema published by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Guglielmi had friends who made the history of the 20th century, he was one of the founders of the neo-avant-garde literary collective Group 63 with Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti, BeniaminoPlacido, Alberto Arbasino.
He wrote for Paese Sera and Corriere della Sera, as well as for numerous magazines.
As a literary critic for L'Espresso, he wrote until old age for Tuttolibri-La Stampa and had a blog in the last years of life on the website of Il Fatto Quotidiano.
Numerous publications, some of which written four hands with Stefano Balassone, his deputy at the helm of Rai3.
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