1983 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1983.

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Events

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1983 is a turning point in the story of Italian television. After thirty years of undisputed RAI preponderance, Berlusconi's Canale 5 fights as equal the public television and crushes the competition by the other two private networks: Rusconi's Italia 1 is absorbed by Fininvest, Mondadori's Rete 4, despite a programming of good standard, must face growing debts, moreover for a bad management of the advertising.

  • 6 January: the final evening of Fantastico 3, hosted by Corrado Mantoni and Raffaella Carrà, gets the highest ratings of the year (27, 4 million viewers).[1]
  • 5 February: Tiziana Rivale wins the 1983 Sanremo festival with Sarà quell che sarà, while Toto Cotugno gains the “people's prize”, assigned by the audience through TOTIP coupons, with "L'Italiano". Vasco Rossi polemically reveals the use of playback, leaving the stage before the end of his song "Vita spericolata".[2]
  • March 6: the third RAI channel, till then publicity free, begins to broadcast advertisements.
  • June 13: the popular presenter Enzo Tortora is jailed, with the charge of Camorra association and drug trafficking; the public opinion divides into supporters of his innocence or guilt.
  • October 3: RAI anticipates the opening of TV broadcasting from half past twelve to noon. In the lunch time slot, so far neglected, the first RAI channel airs a new phone quiz show, Pronto Raffaella? with Raffaella Carrà (see below).[3]
  • October 9: the First, Second and Third RAI Channels change name in RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3 and get new logos (respectively, a sphere, a cube and a pyramid).

Private channels

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  • January 2: birth of Rete A, owned by the editor Alberto Peruzzo. It begins as a generalist channel, but soon it specializes in home shopping and Latin-American telenovelas.[4]
  • January 5: Edilio Rusconi sells Italia 1 to Fininvest, for 35 billion liras. The channel becomes a television aimed to the young people.[3]
  • April 26–27: Rete 4 gets a scoop. While in Turin the trial to the Red Brigades is in progress, the channel broadcasts, in two evenings, an Enzo Biagi's interview to Patrizio Peci, former terrorist, and then collaborator of justice.[5]
  • May:Canale 5, with a share of 13 %, overwhelms RAI 2 and becomes the second Italian channel; Publitalia, the Fininvest advertising agency, with a 504 million liras turnover, overcomes Sipra, the RAI agency.[3]
  • November 21: Canale 5 airs the first episode of the miniseries The thorn birds; it gets very high ratings, with a peak of 14 million viewers, also thanks its scandalous matter (the forbidden love of a Catholic priest). In competition, Rete 4 airs The winds of war but with very disappointing audience results, despite a massive advertising campaign. The defeat in the “war of the fictions” deepens the Rete 4's crisis.[6]

Debuts

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Variety

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  • Pronto Raffaella? (Hello Raffaella?) – Noon show on RAI 1, directed by Gianni Boncompagni and hosted by Raffaella Carrà; 2 seasons. The program alternates musical numbers, talk show moments (with important guests, as Mother Teresa) [7] and phone games. It gets an extraordinary and unexpected public success, moreover thanks to the phone games,; they are very simple and naïve but allow the public at home to interact with the TV star. RAI is forced to strictly rule the calls, to avoid the clogging of the phone lines.[8]
  • Al Paradise (3 seasons) – directed by Antonello Falqui, with Oreste Lionello. An old-fashioned variety show that that is the same successful in ratings.[9]
  • Ci pensiamo lunedì (We'll think about it on Monday) – by Romolo Siena, with Renzo Montagnani (who, for the show, creates the character of the hot tempered priest Don Fumino) and Alida Chelli; 2 seasons.[10]
  • Napoli prima e dopo (Naples, first and after) – festival of Naples songs; 34 editions.
  • Caccia al tesoro – game of scavenger hunt in exotic places, hosted by Jocelyn Hattab and Lea Pericoli; 2 edizioni.
  • Il cappello sulle ventitré[11] – sexy variety, including also stripteases with full nudity, hosted by Paolo Mosca and Rosa Fumetto; 4 seasons.[12]
  • Loretta Goggi in quiz – quiz about show business, hosted by Loretta Goggi; 2 seasons.
  • Test, gioco per conoscersi (A game to know himself) – game based on the psychological tests, hosted by the journalist Emilio Fede and the psychologist Enzo Spaltro; 2 seasons.
  • Giallo sera, hosted by Renzo Palmer; 2 seasons. The contenders must solve a crime story, played by the same Palmer as a hotel detective.

News and educational

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  • Colosseum – semiserious magazine about the game and the show, by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel; 5 seasons.
  • La straordinaria storia dell’Italia (Extraordinary history of Italy) – with various hosts and Rossana Podestà as constant guest; 4 seasons.

For children

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  • La banda dello zecchino (The zecchino band, later Il sabato dello zecchino, The zecchino Saturday and Ma che domenica! What a Sunday), weekly show bound to the Zecchino d’oro, with various hosts; 19 seasons.
  • Cartoni magici (Magic cartoons) – 2 seasons.

Fininvest

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Variety

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News and educational

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Other private channels

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  • Accendi un’amica (Light a friend): home shopping program (RETE A). Some hosts, as Guido Angeli, testimonial of the Aiazzone furniture, and Wanna Marchi, producer and seller of improbable slimming products, become popular despite (or thanks) the bad taste of their performances.
  • M’ama non m’ama (He loves me or not?) (Rete 4), with Sabina Ciuffini and Marco Predolin; 3 seasons. First Italian dating show
  • Un milione al secondo (A million by second) (Rete 4) – quiz hosted by Pippo Baudo (for the first time in a private channel); 2 seasons.
  • Gli affari sono affari (Business is business) (TMC) – game show hosted by Jocelyn Hattab, set in a supermarket, with clients casually chosen as contenders; 2 edizioni.

Shows of the year

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Drama

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Miniseries

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Serial

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Variety

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News and educational

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  • Effetti personali (Personal objects) – documentary by Giuseppe Bertolucci and Loris Mazzetti about the classic movies shot in Emilia Romagna.
  • Questo secolo: 1943 e dintorni (This century: 1943 and surrounding times) – enquiry by Enzo Biagi about the Second World War.[22]

Finivest

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Variety

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News and educational

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Other private channels

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Variety

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Ending this year

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  • Attenti a noi due
  • Direttissima con la tua antenna
  • Fresco fresco
  • Il telegramma
  • TG3 set
  • Zim zum zam

References

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  1. ^ Hit (2010-08-24). "Auditel Rewind - 1983". TvBlog (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  2. ^ "Sanremo Follie - 1983: Vasco in playback con "Vita spericolata" - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  3. ^ a b c Bruno, Somalvico (25 October 2012). "cronologia radiotelevisiva III: 1976-1992: 1980-1985". cronologia radiotelevisiva III. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  4. ^ Emanuelli, Massimo (2017-08-15). "Rete A". MASSIMO EMANUELLI (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  5. ^ PATRIZIO PECI intervistato da Enzo Biagi, retrieved 2022-08-24
  6. ^ "1983: IL RECORD DI «UCCELLI DI ROVO»". ilGiornale.it (in Italian). 2005-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  7. ^ "Raffaella incontra Madre Teresa". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  8. ^ "1983-2013: IL MEZZOGIORNO DI RAIUNO COMPIE 30 ANNI". DavideMaggio.it. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  9. ^ "Al Paradise". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  10. ^ "Ci pensiamo lunedì". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  11. ^ Italian expression, literally, “the hat at 11 PM”, meaning a hat wore on the head's side.
  12. ^ "Il cappello sulle ventitré". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  13. ^ "OK, il prezzo è giusto!". Mediaset Play. Archived from the original on 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  14. ^ "Zig zag". Mediaset Play. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  15. ^ The titles cite a famous radio show by Renzo Arbore.
  16. ^ "Flipper". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  17. ^ "Delitto e castigo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  18. ^ "Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  19. ^ "Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  20. ^ "Pranzo in TV". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  21. ^ "Gransimpatico". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  22. ^ "Questo Secolo: 1943 e dintorni". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-10-11.