The presenter has vowed to fight back following his departure from the programme, while the editorial team has expressed strong opposition to his replacements. Rai is offering three positions, journalists are threatening to walk out, and La7 is once again emerging as the promised land. The situation has become a conflict of all against all.

Giulia Presutti and Daniele Piervincenzi: they are the two ‘kapos’, to use the gentle term coined by the daily newspaper Safari, who will end up literally squeezed dry and then thrown in the bin by the Nazis on Viale Mazzini.

The Prime Minister would like to see the journalist join the public service broadcaster: it would restore the organisation’s prestige following the Ranucci-Lavitola affair. For the presenter, it would mark a return to the television station where he started out

The company considers the linear presentation of the school to be outdated and the narrative about the local area to be more worthwhile. This may be an editorial choice or a decision deemed advantageous in terms of audience reach, but neither of these possibilities matches the explanation provided in the official press release

The channel is being axed just as its viewing figures in recent years have been amongst the best in its history. It will be replaced by the new ‘Italiana’ channel: from schools to sausage festivals, on the same channel number on the remote control

Italian TV host Myrta Merlino is moving to San Marino TV. But every celebrity needs a Plan B: Channel 7, Channel 8, Channel 9 — or another country altogether. From Agon Channel’s Albanian adventure to Pupo in Central Asia and Roberto Mancini in Saudi Arabia, everyone has their Albania.