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1979 in Italian television

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This is a list of Italian television related events from 1979.

Events

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RAI

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  • January 13: Mino Vergnaghi, with Amare, wins the Sanremo music festival, hosted by Mike Bongiorno and Anna Maria Rizzoli. Rai broadcasts integrally only the finally evening, that gets a rating of 22.3 million viewers.[1]
  • 22 February. Announcement of the sentence in the Catanzaro trial, for the Piazza Fontana bombing. The hearings have been, for the first time, integrally shoot  by the RAI cameras. From 25 September, a selection in five episodes  of the proceedings is aired, showing to the public the embarrassed and reticent depositions of politicians, such as Giulio Andreotti and Mariano Rumor.[2]
  • 26 April. The documentary Trial for rape, realized by a feminist collective, shocks the public opinion, showing the victim of a ravishment humiliated and criminalized by the defense attorneys.[3]
  • 3 December: the impersonator Alighiero Noschese, long time a star of Italian television, shots himself in the chapel of the Roman clinic where he was hospitalized; he suffered for years from depression, because the divorce and some professional fails.[4]  
  • 15 December. The adolescent actress Fabiana Udenio announces the beginning of RETE 3 broadcasting. This is the schedule of the first day.
18,30 Il pollice (anticipations)
19 TG3 and TGR
19,30 Tutti in scena (entertainment magazine)
20 Teatrino (puppetry show)
20,05 The taking of power by Louis XIV
21,35 TG3
22,05 Teatrino

Rete 3 is, in the intents, focused on the local realities, with programs and news realized by the RAI regional offices; however, for years it will be a “ghost channel”, lacking of means and ignored by the public.[5]

Private channels

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In 1979, the  Italian private televisions have a breakthrough: the most active buy massively films and American telefilms, hire RAI stars as Mike Bongiorno and Pippo Baudo and begin to broadcast in National scope (the rule forcing them to operate only locally is bypassed, airing on several local stations  the same show, prerecorded on videotape). Particularly  dynamic is the Silvio Berlusconi’s  Telemilano 58.

New televisions (with the date of the first airing)

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  • 4 March: TV Port, syndication of 90 local channels, specialized in  American film and telefilm.[6]
  • 19 June: Antenna Sicilia, owned by the newspaper editor Mario Cancio Sanfilippo, art director Pippo Baudo
  • July: Rete televisiva Italiana, owned by Il Messaggero's editor Carlo Perrone.[7]
  • 2 July : Compagnia televisioni Associate; syndication of 20  local channels.[8]
  • Autunni : TV Parma[7]
  • 8 September. GPE-Telemond, by Arnoldo Mondadori editore,  later fused with Rete televisiva Italiana in Rete 4.[9]

The Berlusconi's ascent

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  • 30 January: Silvio Berlusconi founds Rete Italia, society for the marketing of TV shows. The newborn society gets right away a big deal, buoying 325 movies from Titanus for 2 billion liras.
  • 13 September : Birth of Publitalia, the Berlusconi's advertising media agency.
  • December. Telemilano 58, till then visible only in Milan, extends its signal to the whole Lombardy.[7]
  • 5 December. Mike Bongiorno debuts on Silvio Berlusconi's Telemilano 58 with the game show The dreams in the weaver; he's the first TV star who leaves RAI to work full-time for a private network. The collaboration between Bongiorno and the public company, lasted 27 years, has got into crisis few months before with an unsuccessful remake of Lascia o raddoppia?

Debuts

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RAI

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  • 3,2,1... contatto – show for children, inspired by the homonymous PBS program; 2 season. It sees the debut of Paolo Bonolis.
  • Fantastico (Fantastic) – show of the Saturday evening, aired in autumn and bound to the Lotteria Italia. In the Eighties, as Canzonissima in the Sixties, is the most viewed RAI show and causes also political controversies. The first edition, directed by Enzo Trapani and hosted by Beppe Grillo, Loretta Goggi and Heather Parisi, gets an audience of 23, 600 million viewers.[10]
  • Storia di un italiano (History of an Italian) – history of the modern Italy through an anthology of the Alberto Sordi’s movies – 4 seasons.
  • TG3 settimanale (Weekly TG3) - magazine

Private channels

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  • Ciao ciao (Hello hello) –cartoon show; started on the Mondadori's Telenord, it becomes later one of the most popular show for children of the Fininvest network, lasted for 32 seasons.
  • I sogni nel cassetto (Dreams in the drawer) – game show, hosted by Mike Bongiorno (Telemilano 58) – 2 seasons.
  • TG Telenuovo (Telenuovo Verona, 1979) by Germano Mosconi.
  • Telemattina (TV morning) – with Ettore Andenna, first European show aired in the morning (Antenna 3) – 2 seasons.
  • Telemenù – cooking show, with Wilma De Angelis (Telemontecarlo) – 18 seasons.
  • The Buggzum (TMC) - game show hosted by Franchy TV and is about deciding the words.
  • VG21 news (Canale 21)

Television shows

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Drama

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Miniseries

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Among the foreign productions, the hit of the year is the American Holocaust, with 20.2 million viewiers.[1]

Period dramas

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Mystery

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Fantastic

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News and educational

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  • Made in England - reportage about England, by Enzo Biagi, in 12 episodes.[18]
  • Il cuore della Jugoslavia è fatto di mulini (Yugoslavia's heart is made by mills) - reportage by Tonino Guerra, in 3 episodes.[19]
  • Sono arrivati quattro fratelli (Four brothers are arrived) – documentary by Maricla Boggio about the child-adoption. [20]
  • Un autore una città (An author a city) – six great Italian writers speak about their link with the home town.[21]
  • Quando è arrivata la televisione (When television arrived) – documentary by Ermanno Olmi, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Italian television [22]

Variety

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Private channels

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Ending this year

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Networks and services

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Launches

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Network Type Launch date Notes Source
Antenna Sicilia Cable and satellite Unknown
Tele Arena Cable and satellite Unknown
Televisione Cristiana in Italia Cable and satellite Unknown
Telepace Cable and satellite Unknown
Telenuovo Cable and satellite 12 November

Conversions and rebrandings

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Old network name New network name Type Conversion Date Notes Source

Closures

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Network Type Closure date Notes Source

Births

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Deaths

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  • 3 November: Paolo Carlini, 57, actor, star of the early Italian television.
  • 5 November: Amedeo Nazzari, 72, actor, star of the black-and white Italian cinema, in the Sixties active in television as player in fiction and TV-dramas.
  • 3 December: Alighiero Noschese, 47, impersonator (see over)

References

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  1. ^ a b Hit (2010-08-20). "Auditel Rewind - 1979". TvBlog (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  2. ^ "Storia Veneta - Il film parte prima". www.storiaveneta.it. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  3. ^ "Processo per stupro: l'arringa di Lagostena Bassi". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  4. ^ "Noschese: uno, nessuno e centomila". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  5. ^ "Nasce la terza rete". Radiocorriere TV. 50: 18–26. 9–15 December 1979.
  6. ^ Emanuelli, Massimo (2017-10-27). "Tv Port". MASSIMO EMANUELLI (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  7. ^ a b c Bruno, Somalvico (25 October 2012). "cronologia radiotelevisiva III: 1976-1992: 1976-1979". cronologia radiotelevisiva III. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  8. ^ Emanuelli, Massimo (2018-01-28). "Cta". MASSIMO EMANUELLI (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  9. ^ Emanuelli, Massimo (2018-04-22). "Gpe Telemond / Gpe 80". MASSIMO EMANUELLI (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  10. ^ "Fantastico". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  11. ^ "Rocco Scotellaro". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  12. ^ "Prova d'orchestra". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  13. ^ "Cinema!!!". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  14. ^ "Le affinità elettive". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  15. ^ "I vecchi e i giovani". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  16. ^ "Luigi Ganna detective". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  17. ^ "Racconti fantastici". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  18. ^ "Made in England". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  19. ^ "Il cuore della Jugoslavia è fatto di mulini". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  20. ^ "Sono arrivati quattro fratelli". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  21. ^ "Bevilacqua: palcoscenico Parma". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  22. ^ "Quando è arrivata la televisione". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  23. ^ The title cites a popular Giosuè Carducci’s poem.
  24. ^ "Luna Park". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  25. ^ "Stefania Rotolo - Chroma key follies". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-07-30.