{"id":959,"date":"2008-05-22T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T08:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2008-05-23T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T07:30:35","slug":"italian-public-service-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/italian-public-service-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian public service broadcasting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>onight I&#8217;ll be at the Italian Cultural Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icilondon.esteri.it\/IIC_Londra\/webform\/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=280\">talking<\/a> about the European media with <strong>Andy Ward<\/strong> of Endemol and <strong>Angelo Maria Petroni<\/strong> of RAI.<\/p>\n<p>Petroni is an interesting character. He&#8217;s a conservative sociology professor who was affiliated with Silvio Berlusconi. He was appointed to the board of Italy&#8217;s public service broadcaster, RAI, in 2003 by the finance ministry under <em>Il Cavalieri<\/em>&#8216;s second premiership. He nearly got bumped off the board in 2006-7, when Romano Prodi was in power, but he survived.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of Petroni&#8217;s notable proposals for RAI was to counter Italy&#8217;s massive licence fee evasion. Getting on for 30% of Italian homes don&#8217;t pay the licence fee (nearly 40% in the south). Petroni proposed adding the licence fee on to the electricity bill, with the assumption that with leccy came telly.<\/p>\n<p>My puny knowledge of Italian public service broadcasting has been bolstered by <strong>Chris Hanretty<\/strong>&#8216;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrishanretty.co.uk\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s on the calendar for the London <a href=\"http:\/\/beppegrillo.meetup.com\/619\/calendar\/7936008\/\">Beppe Grillo group<\/a>. Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I&#8217;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&#8217;s a conservative sociology professor who was affiliated with Silvio Berlusconi. He was appointed to the board of Italy&#8217;s public service broadcaster, RAI, in 2003 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}