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The Consulate General of Italy in New York and Rai-Radiotelevisione Italiana organised a special event at their Park Avenue headquarters dedicated to 100 years of radio and 70 years of Italian television, in collaboration with Rai Teche and Rai Fiction and under the patronage of the Mike Bongiorno Foundation. The evening was opened by Consul Genera...

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On the occasion of the centenary of Mike Bongiorno’s birth, Milan’s Palazzo Reale is hosting an unprecedented exhibition from Sept. 17 to Nov. 17, 2024, celebrating the life and career of the Italian American anchor man, one of the greatest protagonists of Italian television.  The exhibition, entitled Mike Bongiorno 1924-2024, not only traces the p...

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TV and radio host, journalist, actor and partisan. Italian American. It is not easy to describe Mike Bongiorno, a historical and among the most famous faces of Italian television. A man born exactly 100 years ago, on May 26, 1924, and who died on September 8, 2009. His life was troubled and full of surprises: from imprisonment in San Vittore during...

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The 1950s marks the first decade that television was available in Italian homes and this chapter of the country’s TV history is really the story of its public channel, RAI: truly, speaking of Italian television in the 1950s means speaking  of RAI. Until the 1970s when private channels began appearing, Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), which is now kn...

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Il 26 maggio del 1924 in quel di New York veniva alla luce Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno detto Mike. Dopo aver trascorso i primi anni in America, il piccolo Mickey – come era chiamato dai parenti – si trasferì a Torino insieme alla madre a causa della separazione tra i genitori. Proprio in Italia iniziò a coltivare la sua passione per il mon...

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Il Comune di Milano ha deciso di intitolare una via a Mike Bongiorno, il presentatore scomparso esattamente sei anni fa. Alla sua memoria sarà dedicata una nuova strada parallela a viale della Liberazione, nella zona di Porta Nuova, tra i grattacieli appena costruiti.   «Il primo giorno di trasmissioni della televisione italiana in video c'e...

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As we already did with music, radio, religion, cinema, sport, literature, theater, consumerism and cuisine, today we analyze the relationship between Italy and the United States from the point of view of another fundamental paradigm for the last century: television.   We do this with a young Italian talent, Luca Martera: scholar, writer, director...

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Used, as we are, to study the impact that the American consumer society had on we Italians here in Italy, it is interesting to understand how it influenced our compatriots who had emigrated there in America, and whether and how they have in turn played a role in it. To do so, we are meeting Prof. Simone Cinotto, author of a very interesting book t...

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