1979 in Italian television

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

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Events

RAI

18,30Il pollice (anticipations)
19 TG3 and TGR
19,30Tutti in scena (entertainment magazine)
20Teatrino (puppetry show)
20,05 The taking of power by Louis XIV
21,35TG3
22,05Teatrino

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

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)

  • 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

  • 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

RAI

Private channels

Television shows

Drama

Miniseries

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

Period dramas

Mystery

Fantastic

News and educational

Variety

Private channels

Ending this year

Networks and services

Launches

NetworkTypeLaunch dateNotesSource
Antenna Sicilia Cable and satelliteUnknown
Tele Arena Cable and satelliteUnknown
Televisione Cristiana in Italia Cable and satelliteUnknown
Telepace Cable and satelliteUnknown
Telenuovo Cable and satellite12 November

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network nameNew network nameTypeConversion DateNotesSource

Closures

NetworkTypeClosure dateNotesSource

Births

Deaths

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