According to SWG more than two-thirds of left-wing voters would look favourably upon the creation of a single left-wing party; the resulting party could reliably count on 31.5% of the electorate, roughly the same as the DS and Margherita polled in April. However, the result polled by the DS and Margherita represented a peak for [...]
Rai’s Administrative Council yesterday made three key appointments: Giancarlo Leone was made vice-director general, Lorenza Lei, head of TV Resources; and Nicola Claudio, chief of staff to the Director-General. Leone was formerly head of RaiCinema, and had been considered for the job of director-general before in 2002 (source: Bruno Vespa, Rai: la Grande Guerra). Leone [...]
According to weekly Gente – and repeated at Dagospia [not work safe], Alexis [not work safe], and now the Corriere della Sera – the Administrative Council of Rai has voted unanimously on a list of 28 names who are not to appear on Rai in future. Most of the twenty-eight are involved in the Savoia [...]
Paolo Gentiloni outlines his plan for the Communications sector before today’s hearing in front the Culture Commission. He discusses the currently stalled privatisation of Rai, indirectly quoted as follows: Gentiloni punta alla riorganizzazione dell’assetto societario che contempli una divisione tra l’attività di servizio pubblico, l’attività commerciale e le reti [Gentiloni hints at the reorganisation of [...]
Congratulations to the Italian team for having won last night – and congratulations to Rai for having won an incredible 84% audience share for its broadcast of the final. Seems like Rai retains the PSB prerogative of being the ‘go-to’ channel for major national events…
News from public service broadcasting-land. In the UK, the BBC has just released its annual report, publication of which led to a round of stories about excessive executive pay at the publicly funded broadcaster. The key trope of the report is the use of key performance indicators – part of a “performance management framework”. Alongside [...]
I don’t know what this says about differences in news values between Italy and the UK, but the BBC ran the story about Berlusconi’s indictment for fraud first on its UK RSS feed, Repubblica online, fifth, and Corriere third – behind news about the ongoing Juventus match-fixing scandal and other World Cup news. Possibilities: the [...]
Majority infight number two comes from a different quarter: Clemente Mastella (Udeur), Justice Minister, makes ominous noises about withdrawing from the government coalition and pledging instead ‘external support’ to the Prodi government – and this because the coalition’s recently-announced plan to liberalise various professions touches on certain functions previously assigned to the Justice Minister. Questions: [...]