Rete 4 Rete 4 HD
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Launched	January 1982
Owned by	Mediaset S.p.a.
Audience share	8.28% (2008, [1])
Country	Italy
Website	www.rete4.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue	PAL, Normally tuned on channel 4 (not available in switched-over/switched-off areas)
Digital	DVB-T, LCN 4, Where available
Satellite
Analogue	Not available
Digital	DVB-S (scrambled in Mediaguard 2 and Nagravision 3 during some events) on Hotbird
SKY Italia	Channel 104
Cable
MC Cable	Channel 206
Cablecom	Channel 098 Channel 207 (digital CH-D)
naxoo	Channel 185

Rete 4 (pronounced Retequattro) is an Italian television station belonging to the Mediaset network.^[2] It is an Italian private commercial TV channel. Rete 4's main news programme is TG4, whose editor-in-chief is Emilio Fede since 1992.

Programs[link]

TV Series[link]

Note: All are imports from the United States and Canada.

• 24 (first four seasons - afterward, the series was relocated on Italia 1)
• Bones
• Colombo (Columbo)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (it: Degrassi: La Generazione Seguente)
• Hunter
• Kojak
• Magnum, P.I.
• Miami Vice
• Detective Monk
• Murder, she wrote (Previously aired on Rai 1 and Rai 2)
• Nash Bridges
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery
• Quincy, M.E.
• T. J. Hooker
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• The West Wing
• Renegade

Culture[link]

• La Macchina del Tempo (translation: The Time Machine)
• Sai xChé? (translation: Do you know why?)
• Appuntamento con la Storia (translation: Date with history)
• Solaris
• Forum

Soap Operas[link]

• Guiding Light (it: "Sentieri")
• Storm of Love (it: "Tempesta D'Amore")
• The Young and the Restless (it: "Febbre d'Amore")

Telenovelas[link]

• Cuore Selvaggio ("Corazón salvaje")
• Terra Nostra

News[link]

• TG4

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site (Italian)
• COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

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Gianluca Pessotto

Personal information
Date of birth	(1970-08-11) 11 August 1970 (age 41)
Place of birth	Latisana, Italy
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Defender/Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1989–1991	Varese	64	(1)
1991–1992	Massese	22	(1)
1992–1993	Bologna	21	(1)
1993–1994	Verona	34	(3)
1994–1995	Torino	32	(1)
1995–2006	Juventus	243	(2)
National team
1996–2002	Italy	22	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Gianluca Pessotto (born 11 August 1970 in Latisana, Province of Udine) is a former football player who spent the majority of his career with Juventus F.C., where he currently serves as team manager. A versatile player, Pessotto was able to play as a full back or midfielder, preferably on the left side although right-footed, and was also used as a center back on occasion.

After his retirement, Pessotto has served in the Juventus backroom staff as an assistant. He is now in charge of the Youth Sector, replacing former teammate Ciro Ferrara.

Career[link]

AC Milan[link]

Born in Latisana, in the province of Udine, Pessotto started his career in the A.C. Milan youth system. However, he was instantly sold to A.S. Varese 1910 in 1989. He never made a professional appearance for Milan.

Varese[link]

After joining Varese in 1989, Pessotto officially began his professional career. In two full season s with the club, he tallied an impressive 64 appearances, also finding the back of the net on a solo occasion.

Massese[link]

In August 1991, Pessotto transferred to U.S. Massese 1919, although he only remained at the club for one season. in his lone season, he appeared 22 times in the league, netting one goal.

Bologna[link]

Following impressive spells with both A.S. Varese 1910 and U.S. Massese 1919, he transferred to, then, Serie B club Bologna F.C. 1909 in the summer of 1992. Despite being a highly anticipated transfer, Pessotto made just 21 league appearances, and was sold at the conclusion of the season. He also scored one goal for the Bolognese club.

Verona[link]

After a season with Bologna in Serie B, Pessotto transferred to fellow Serie B club, Hellas Verona F.C. in 1993. Pessotto was an undisputed starter for much of the season, impressing greatly. He made 34 league appearances with a seasonal career high of 3 goals.

Torino[link]

After impressing in the second division of Italian football, Pessotto transferred to Torino F.C. in 1994. In his first season in the Serie A, Pessotto racked up a starting position along with 32 league appearances and his first Serie A goal. After greatly impressing in his debut Serie A season, Pessotto moved to city rivals and European giants Juventus FC, in 1995, in what was a very highly regarded transfer.

Juventus[link]

After joining Juventus in 1995, he instantly became a key part of the first team and help Juventus form what was considered as the best defence in the world at this time, and teams strongly regretted ever going down a goal to the club, as they knew how hard it would be to score one back for themselves. Pessotto formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes of Ciro Ferrara, Moreno Torricelli, Paolo Montero, Mark Iuliano, Lilian Thuram, Alessandro Birindelli, Igor Tudor, Gianluca Zambrotta, Nicola Legrottaglie, Fabio Cannavaro, Jonathan Zebina, and Giorgio Chiellini during his lengthy 12 year tenure with the club. He was one of many experienced players who had been at Juventus for a lengthy period of time. Injuries and other issues in the closing stages of his career limited his first-team opportunities to mainly being used a substitute to Jonathan Zebina or Lilian Thuram. Pessotto retired at the end of the 2005–2006 Serie A season, after back to back Scudetti. With Juventus he managed well over 250 total appearances scoring 2 league goals in the process. Among his achievements as a Juventus player, Pessotto won the UEFA Champions League in 1996, playing in 4 Champions League Finals, the UEFA Super Cup in 1996, the Intercontinental Cup in 1996, 1 UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2000, 4 Scudetti (1997, 1998, 2002, 2003) 4 Supercoppa Italiana (1997, 1998, 2002, 2003), and 1 Coppa Italia in 1995.

International career[link]

For Italy, Pessotto was capped 22 times. He played for his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. In Euro 2000, Pessotto scored a penalty in the shootout win over Holland which sent Italy into the final. However, he only picked up a runners-up medal, as Italy lost after conceding a last minute equaliser, and then conceded a David Trézéguet golden goal. Trezeguet ironically became his Juventus teammate the following season.

Career honours[link]

• Serie A
  • Winner (4): 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03
  • Runner-up (3): 1995–96, 1999–00, 2000–01
• Coppa Italia
  • Winner (1): 1994–95
  • Runner-up (2): 2001–02; 2003–04
• Supercoppa Italiana
  • Winner (4): 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003
  • Runner-up (1): 1998, 2005
• UEFA Champions League
  • Winner (1): 1995–96
  • Runner-up (3): 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03
• UEFA Super Cup
  • Winner (1): 1996
• Intercontinental Cup
  • Winner (1): 1996
• UEFA Intertoto Cup
  • Winner (1): 1999
• UEFA European Football Championship
  • Runner-up (1): 2000

Pessotto's fall from a building[link]

Following his retirement, Pessotto was successively appointed as the new Juventus team manager. Weeks after his retirement as a footballer, he survived a 15-metre fall from a fourth storey window at the headquarters of Juventus, on 27 June 2006. As he was holding a rosary, it is believed that he was attempting suicide. He later admitted that he had attempted to commit suicide^{[citation needed]} in the wake of the Calciopoli scandal which led his club to be stripped of two Serie A titles and relegated in Serie B for their first time in history. Though not implicated in the scandal, Pessotto was said to be feeling depressed and unhappy with his role, and the relegation of the club. Following his recovery, Pessotto returned into Juventus in his role as team manager. ^[1][2] He suffered multiple fractures and internal bleeding from the fall. On 17 July 2006, medical staff declared him out of danger and stated that he would not have long-term mental damage or physical paralysis.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Report on Channel 4 Website
• Jonathan O'Brien, The Sunday Business Post, 16 July 2006, "The Italian Job"

v t e Italy squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Toldo 2 Bergomi 3 P. Maldini (c) 4 Cannavaro 5 Costacurta 6 Nesta 7 Pessotto 8 Torricelli 9 Albertini 10 Del Piero 11 D. Baggio 12 Pagliuca 13 Cois 14 Di Biagio 15 Di Livio 16 Di Matteo 17 Moriero 18 R. Baggio 19 Inzaghi 20 Chiesa 21 Vieri 22 Buffon Coach: C. Maldini

v t e Italy squad – UEFA Euro 2000 Runners-up 1 Abbiati 2 Ferrara 3 Maldini (c) 4 Albertini 5 Cannavaro 6 Negro 7 Di Livio 8 Conte 9 Inzaghi 10 Del Piero 11 Pessotto 12 Toldo 13 Nesta 14 Di Biagio 15 Iuliano 16 Ambrosini 17 Zambrotta 18 Fiore 19 Montella 20 Totti 21 Delvecchio 22 Antonioli Coach: Zoff

Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio in Trento, 2010.
Born	Marco Travaglio (1964-10-13) October 13, 1964 (age 47) Turin, Italy
Years active	1988 – present

Marco Travaglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko traˈvaʎʎo]; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and commentator.

Biography[link]

Travaglio was born in Turin and earned a degree in history from the University of Turin. In 1992 he began to pursue journalism as a career. He started out writing for Catholic publications such as Il nostro tempo ("Our time"), then worked under the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers such as Il Giornale and La Voce and gained the attention of Montanelli himself who once used to say about him: "No, Travaglio does not kill anyone. With a knife. He uses a more refined and not legally punishable weapon: the archives"

Since 14 September 2006, Marco Travaglio has been a regular guest in the TV program AnnoZero, hosted by Michele Santoro (also mentioned by Berlusconi in the Bulgarian Edict).

Recently, Travaglio has contributed as a columnist to prominent national newspapers and magazines, such as La Repubblica, L'Unità (with his old columns "Bananas", "Uliwood Party" and "Zorro") and Micromega. He still contributes to L'espresso with the column "Signorno'". In September 2009 he contributed to the formation of the independent newspaper, called Il Fatto Quotidiano ("The Daily Fact").

Political and judicial events of national importance, ranging from Mani pulite to the troubles of controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi, have been Travaglio's main area of interest.

The journalist became well known in 2001, after participating in a TV show on state-owned national channel Raidue called Satyricon and hosted by Daniele Luttazzi. There, He presented his brand-new book, and bestseller, L'odore dei soldi ("The Smell of Money", co-authored by Elio Veltri), which investigates the origin of Mr Berlusconi's early fortunes. Berlusconi started a lawsuit for slander, but since the book reports official facts already known by the judiciary authorities, he was condemned to pay the legal expenses.^[1]

The show, aired during the campaign for the Italian general election, was heavily criticized by Berlusconi and his party and labeled by them as a politically motivated, non-objective personal attack. After Mr Berlusconi's victory at the elections, both Travaglio and Luttazzi (together with other prominent journalists that had criticized Mr Berlusconi's or investigated his history) have never appeared again on state-owned TV shows until September 2006 (shortly after Berlusconi lost the elections and left power), causing a long debate about freedom of information and censorship in Italy.

Awards and Honors[link]

The National Association of German Journalists (DJV Deutscher Journalisten-Verband) honored Marco Travaglio in 2009 bestowing on him the award for "Press Freedom". The decision, taken by the seven members jury of the association, was accompanied by the following statement from Michael Konken, President of the association of german journalists. Konken stated: «We honour in Marco Travaglio a brave and talented colleague, fighting againsts many obstacles to defend freedom of speech and press in Italy». Other recipients of the Award in previous years include the journalist Miroslav Filipović and the Russian reporter Ol'ga Kitova. Filipović received the award for his articles on the atrocities committed against civilians in Kosovo by the Yugoslav Army, while Olga Kitova was honoured for her struggle in denouncing corruption in Russia.

Publications[link]

Books by Marco Travaglio (usually co-authored with other investigative journalists) include:

• Bravi ragazzi (Italian for Good fellas), published in 2003 and reporting on politicians Cesare Previti and Silvio Berlusconi's alleged (and later confirmed by court's sentence ^[2]) corruption of judges
• Lo chiamavano Impunità ("They Call Him Impunity", a humorous reference to the spaghetti western Lo chiamavano Trinità), published in 2003, about the SME-Ariosto inquiry and court trial
• Mani Sporche (Italian for "Dirty Hands") that reports about the years following the national scandal "Mani pulite" (Italian for "Clean Hands")
• Il Bavaglio ("The Gag") mostly about the Italian politicians' plans to limit freedom of speech and the investigative means of Italian Prosecutors investigating political corruption
• Per chi suona la banana ("For Whom the Banana Tolls"; the title is a pun on For Whom the Bell Tolls, with a reference on the banana republic)
• Italia Anno Zero, Chiarelettere, 2009, ISBN 978-88-6190-051-6 (coauthors: Beatrice Borromeo and Vauro Senesi)

On 10 May 2008, Marco Travaglio commented on Renato Schifani's election as president of the Senate that one should "simply ask of the second highest office of the state to explain those relationships with those men who have subsequently been condemned for association with the Mafia" on the RAI current affairs talk show television program Che tempo fa.^[3][4][5]

The statement of Travaglio resulted in fierce and almost universally negative reactions including from the centre left, except for Antonio Di Pietro who said that Travaglio was "merely doing his job". Some called for chief executives at RAI to be dismissed.

The popular political commentator Beppe Grillo supported Travaglio, while Schifani announced he would go to Court and sue Travaglio for slander.^[6] Schifani said Travaglio's accusation was based on "inconsistent or manipulated facts, not even worthy of generating suspicions", adding that "someone wants to undermine the dialogue between the government and the opposition."^[5] Mister Schifani himself enjoys immunity as leader of the parliament.

In 2009, the German Association of Journalists awarded Travaglio its yearly prize for Freedom of the Press, describing him as a "brave and critical colleague [...] exposing continually the attempts of Italian politicians, especially Silvio Berlusconi, to influence the media to their advantage and to negate critical reports."^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Marco Travaglio

• Il fatto quotidiano Independent journal of which Travaglio is the vice director.
• Voglio scendere Blog by Travaglio and fellow journalists and authors Pino Corrias and Peter Gomez (Italian)
• L'Antefatto Official website of Travaglio's independent newspaper, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italian)
• Unofficial Fan site featuring a column and some other contributions by Travaglio not published elsewhere (Italian)
• Interview with Marco Travaglio (Italian)
• La Repubblica newspaper: the controversial interview with Travaglio by Luttazzi (Italian)
• Signornò [1] L'Espresso-Opinioni (Italian)
• V-day 8 September 2007 Bologna Video (Italian)
• V2-day 25 April 2008 Turin Video (Italian)
• No CAV day 8 July 2008 Rome (Italian)

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Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor.

Biography[link]

Tenco was born in Cassine (province of Alessandria) in 1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his father, who died in unclear circumstances. It has been rumoured, that Luigi Tenco was the fruit of an extramarital relationship of his mother.

Tenco spent his childhood in Cassine and Ricaldone until 1948, when he moved to Liguria, first to Nervi and then to Genoa, where his mother had a wine shop. During high school, Tenco founded the Jelly Roll Morton Boys Jazz band, in which Tenco played the clarinet and another singer, later to become famous, Bruno Lauzi, the banjo. Gino Paoli, also a future famous Italian singer-songwriter, was a member of the later Tenco band, I Diavoli del Rock (The Rock Devils).

Tenco made his debut in the world of Italian professional music with the band I Cavalieri (The Knights), which included Giampiero Reverberi and Enzo Jannacci amongst others. During this period he used the pseudonym Gigi Mai. In 1961 Tenco released his first single under his real name, entitled "Quando" ("When").

In 1962 Tenco began a short-lived cinematic experience, with Luciano Salce's movie La Cuccagna. He also collaborated on the soundtrack to the film. During this period he also formed a strong friendship with the Genoese anarchist poet Riccardo Mannerini. In 1963, however, his friendship with Gino Paoli broke up, due to a troubled relationship with the actress Stefania Sandrelli.

Tenco's first LP was released in 1962, Ballate E Canzoni. One of the songs, "Cara Maestra" ("Dear Teacher"), was censored by the then thriving Italian media censorship. The censors struck again in the following year, against his songs "Io Sì" ("I Do") and "Una Brava Ragazza" ("A Nice Girl").

In 1966, suffering through a period of compulsory military service, he released Un Giorno Dopo L'Altro (One Day after Another) for RCA. In Rome during the same year, he met and befriended the Egypt-Italo-French singer Dalida. The two were eventually to become lovers.

In 1967 he took part in the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo. It was rumoured, that he participated against his will. The song he presented was "Ciao Amore Ciao" ("Bye Love, Bye"), which he sang together with Dalida. Tenco allegedly committed suicide on January 27, 1967, he was only 28 years old, after learning, that his song had been eliminated from the final competition.^[1] Tenco was found in his hotel room with a bullet wound in his left temple and a note announcing, that his gesture was against the jury and public's choices during the competition. Only days earlier Tenco's wedding to Dalida had been announced. It was Dalida, who discovered his body.

Tenco was buried in Ricaldone. In 1974 the Tenco Award was instituted, and has been held every year since in Sanremo. Many of the most renowned Italian singer-songwriters from the 1970s declared explicitly the influence of Tenco on their work. Francesco De Gregori's album Bufalo Bill of 1976 contained a song, "Festival", about Tenco's suicide; it points out the hypocrisy with which the music establishment tried to minimize the dramatic event, in order to let the show go on.

The French television channel TV5 recently carried a full-length dramatization of the love affair of Tenco and Dalida. Tenco was played by Alessandro Gassman while Dalida was played by Sabrina Ferilli.

The Italian judicial system later began re-examinining Luigi Tenco's suicide. It was pointed out, that the bullet hole was on the left temple, while the singer was right-handed. It had also been revealed that no autopsy had been done on the singer's corpse, and no calligraphic analysis on the suicide note with which he explained his final gesture.

On 15 February 2006, Italian police exhumed Tenco's body for further investigation.^[2] The next day, results from the new autopsy and ballistics analysis were reported. According to Italian experts, what had been thought to be the entry hole on the left temple was actually the exit site. The bullet trajectory was said to be compatible with suicide.^{[citation needed]}

Tributes[link]

In 1999 the play Solitudini - Luigi Tenco e Dalida, written and directed by Maurizio Valtieri, was performed in Rome.

Discography[link]

• Discografia integrale

See also[link]

Dalida

Christian de La Mazière

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Luigi Tenco

• TV TENCO
• Luigi Tenco 60's - La verde isola fatta di soli amici
• Testi delle canzoni
• Luigi Tenco: Photos & Gravesite
• Luigi Tenco article on Cult Cargo

Emilio Fede
Born	Emilio Fede (1931-06-24) June 24, 1931 (age 81) Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Messina, Italy

Emilio Fede (born June 24, 1931) is an Italian anchorman, journalist and writer. He has been the director of TG1 (from 1981 to 1982), a news programme on Raiuno and TG4, (from 1992 to 2012) a news programme on Rete 4.

Biography[link]

Fede was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily.

He started his career in the Italian public broadcasting company (RAI) in the early 1950s, and went on to become one of the most popular faces in its news dominant TV market share in Italy. Fede has been the director since 1992 to 2012 of TG4, a news programme on Rete 4, owned by Italian tycoon and former premier Silvio Berlusconi.^[1] Fede has been often accused of excessive partisanship in his news management, to the point of weeping joyfully upon Mr. Berlusconi's 1994 electoral victory.^[2] This partisanship made him earn the nickname "Umilio Fido", that sounds like Humbled Loyal Dog.^[3]

Emilio Fede is, at present, indicted for favouring prostitution of a minor in the framework of the so-called Rubygate scandal, involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, dental hygienist Nicole Minetti and Karima El Mahrug Ruby Rubacuori

Assault[link]

On the 24th of November 2010 Fede was assaulted at a restaurant in Milan's city centre by Gian Germano Giuliani, the owner of Giuliani Pharmaceuticals.^[4]

Books[link]

• Finché c'è Fede (1997)
• Privé. La vita è un gioco (1998)
• L'invidiato speciale (1999)
• La foglia di fico (2000)
• Samba dei ruffiani (2001)
• La cena dei cretini (2002)
• Ladro d'amore (2003)
• Peluche (2005)
• Fuori Onda (2006)

All published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.

References[link]

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