Byoblu

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ByoBlu
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Broadcast area Italy (via digital terrestrial television)
Worldwide (via internet)
HeadquartersVia Castellammare 14, 20157 Milan (Italy)
Programming
Language(s) Italian
Picture format 16:9 SDTV
History
Launched2021, April 25
Founder Claudio Messora
Links
Website www.byoblu.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital LCN 262
Tivùsat 462
Sky 816
Streaming media
LIVE Stream https://www.byoblu.com/diretta-tv/

Byoblu is an Italian television station, based in Milan, which broadcasts on digital terrestrial channel 262, as well as live-streaming on the official website. [1]

Contents

Initially born as a blog on the Internet, which is in the past known for hosting and spreading alternative hypothesis and various theories, [2] [3] Is a free channel, and it is based exclusively on the financial support of free donations from private citizens. [4] [5]

History and diffusion

Founded in 2007 as a website and YouTube channel by Claudio Messora, former musician and communication consultant of the Movimento 5 Stelle, [6] [7] [8] dedicated to so-called alternative information issues, [9] Byoblu was transformed into a company in 2019, into a regional newspaper and broadcaster in 2020, which went national in April 2021. [6]

This last decision was taken following a sudden closure and deletion of his videos and contents from the YouTube platform that hosted him, due to accusations of scientific disinformation on the topic of COVID-19. [10] [11] Such channel had approximately half a million of registered users, [12] to whom its founder then asked donations to be able to raise a sufficient amount to purchase a digital terrestrial channel, visible throughout the Italian territory. [4] [10]

Since then, Byoblu continues to be supported by the offers of voluntary contributors, [13] stating that independence from financial giants can guarantee autonomy and freedom of information. [14]

Byoblu is also a publishing house, which has published successful essays, including Heresia by Massimo Citro Della Riva, [15] [16] [17] and in 2022 it also became a radio broadcaster. [6] They also published some documentaries such as Io no, Capitano. [18] [19] [20]

Byoblu has an online store with logistics and external warehouses that combine user purchases into a single shipping cost. The companies that offer their products in the online shop are the same ones that finance the short advertising breaks, which are broadcast by the television channel. [21]

Guests and schedule

The televiewers themselves are invited to participate in the creation of the Byoblu broadcast programming, which includes newscasts, information programs on current affairs, culture, economics, history, science, spirituality, through proposals and suggestions, [22] as for example in the program "È l'Ora della Verità". [23]

Various in-depth topics are focused in particular on medicine and politics, with the aim of giving voice to people, events and news deemed underrepresented by the official or so-called mainstream media, [24] also giving space to theses classified in general as anti-establishment. [17]

Among the various journalists, intellectuals and experts who collaborate with the broadcaster, as authors of services and features, there are Francesco Borgonovo, host of the talk show "1984: escape plan", Fulvio Grimaldi, Mario Adinolfi, Diego Fusaro, Alessandro Meluzzi, Ermanno Bencivenga; other guests are Massimo Mazzucco, Ugo Mattei, Robert W. Malone, the silent Master Mason Mauro Biglino [25] and others. [26] [27]

Web contents are released under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

Byoblu declares to act with media and religious pluralism. [28]

The TV intends to set up an association, which will have its own personal group of self-managed regional television networks, where members will be able to create the schedule and have a showcase for free and participatory discussion. Furthermore, the association will enter the so-called governance of the national television, with an annual general meeting in which the editorial line, the schedule and investment orientation will be discussed. [29]

Developments

Revenue increased from 422 keuros in 2020 to 3.5 millions in 2022. In December 2023 Messora planned to transform Byoblu into a joint-stock company. [30] [31]

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  2. ↑ Juanne Pili (21 September 2022). "Le teorie del complotto sull'alluvione delle Marche, tra scie chimiche e il volo Nato". Open (in Italian).
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  4. 1 2 Fabio Dragoni (1 April 2021). "Youtube epura Byoblu di Messora. E gli utenti gli comprano un canale tv". La Verità (in Italian).
  5. ↑ "VIAGGIO DENTRO BYOBLU: LA CASA EDITRICE". Informazione - Notizie a Confronto (in Italian). 2023-11-29. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  6. 1 2 3 "Claudio Messora" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior .
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  10. 1 2 Matteo Pucciarelli (31 March 2021). "Youtube chiude Byoblu. Il fondatore Messora lancia il crowdfunding: "Compriamo un canale sul digitale"". La Repubblica (in Italian).
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  15. ↑ "La "bibbia" negazionista tra i bestseller". La Repubblica (in Italian). 1 September 2021.
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  21. ↑ "Terms and conditions".
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  25. ↑ "Archives of Mauro Biglino". Archived from the original on December 7, 2023.
  26. ↑ "I programmi di Byoblu" (in Italian).
  27. ↑ Note that there is also Luca Funiciello, the Anti-Catholic author of the Italian book titled Avrai altro Dio.
  28. ↑ "Editorial policy" (in Italian).
  29. ↑ "Association United Citizens for the Freedom of Thought and the Media Pluralismo" (in Italian).
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