Italian television turns 70 and Rai, which was the first to broadcast the "regular television service" broadcasts starting from 3 January 1954, is celebrating it by entrusting Massimo Giletti, who thus returns to public television, with the hosting of an event, broadcast on Wednesday 28 February at 9.30pm on Rai 1, produced by Entertainment PrimeTime.
"We found ourselves faced with a thousand difficulties - said the presenter at a press conference in Viale Mazzini - because synthesizing 70 years of TV is an impossible mission, but we chose to be contemporary. We were not able to have all the great faces of TV, but many there will be none of them."
Starting from "two of the founding fathers of Italian television": Pippo Baudo and Renzo Arbore.
Then again: Amadeus, Carlo Conti, Antonella Clerici, Fiorello, Paolo Bonolis, Alberto Angela, Giancarlo Magalli, Maria De Filippi, Serena Rossi, Marisa Laurito, Claudia Gerini, Piero Chiambretti, Francesca Fagnani, Andy Luotto, Nina Soldano, Vito Molinari.
Perhaps the absences will cause discussion.
Mara Venier had already asked the host to account for his failure to invite her to yesterday's episode of Domenica In, receiving reassurance from Giletti that "in some way she will be there".
Today the absence of Fabio Fazio emerged.
"I wrote to him, but I didn't get a response - revealed the landlord -. In the past there were tensions between us, but it would have been important to have him. It's a lack that leaves me perplexed and saddened".
Giovanni Minoli, to whom Giletti is professionally linked, will be there, however, with the revival of the well-known interview with Gianni Agnelli.
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