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...court battle against the broadcaster and prevailed, going back on the air in 2006. Earlier this month, however, RAI suspended all of its political talk programming until regional elections are held on March 28, citing a need to maintain its political balance. This time, Santoro decided that his show, Annozero, would go on. He filmed a live version of his program Thursday that was streamed online and broadcast through local and satellite television feeds. "For us, the most important thing is that people watch," says Santoro. (See pictures of Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
...commercial stations and maintains influence over the three public channels (RAI among them), whose governing boards are appointed by the state. Last week, Italian newspapers published transcripts of wiretaps in which Berlusconi could apparently be heard berating Giancarlo Innocenzi, the head of the independent broadcast regulator, to shut down Annozero. During a November broadcast dealing with alleged mafia ties in Berlusconi's government, the Prime Minister allegedly phoned Innocenzi and exclaimed: "It's obscene. You need to make a concerted effort to push RAI to say, 'Enough. We're shutting everything down,'" according to the transcripts. Berlusconi, who has been...
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