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Italian public service broadcasting 2
Last night I did a panel debate with Angelo Petroni of Italy’s public broadcaster RAI, moderated by Endemol‘s Andy Ward on the future of mass media in Europe. The setting was the genteel and fading grandeur of a house in Belgrave Square, which suited the theme perfectly. So what did I learn about Italian telly?
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Italian public service broadcasting…
Tonight I’ll be at the Italian Cultural Institute talking about the European media with Andy Ward of Endemol and Angelo Maria Petroni of RAI. Petroni is an interesting character. He’s a conservative sociology professor who was affiliated with Silvio Berlusconi. He was appointed to the board of Italy’s public service broadcaster, RAI, in 2003 by…
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An evening with a TV news legend
Nick Owen interviewed Stewart Purvis last night, with Stewart talking through some of his favourite pieces from a career that spans over thirty years in journalism. It isn’t putting it too strongly to say that Purvis is the single most influential British TV journalist of that time (not that he’s in pipe and slippers –…
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A scene from home…
From the New Yorker, of course, with thanks to Mike.