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This is a list of Italian television related events from 1956.
Events
- 26 January-5 February. The 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo are the first major sport event covered by the RAI.[1][2][3]
- 10 March - Franca Raimondi and Tonina Torrielli are selected to represent Italy at the 1956 Eurovision Song Contest, with "Aprite le finestre" performed by Raimondi and "Amami se vuoi" performed by Torrielli. They are selected to be the first Italian Eurovision entries during the Sanremo Music Festival held at Sanremo Casino.[4][5]
- 24 May - Italy enters the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with "Aprite le finestre", performed by Franca Raimondi and "Amami se vuoi", performed by Tonina Torrielli.[6]
- 20 June - Resignation of Filiberto Guala, CEO of RAI since 1954. He was a skilled administrator, but considered controversial for the bigoted decency codes which he imposed on television. He was replaced by Marcello Rodinò.[7] Guala was a fervent Catholic, and would later become a Trappist monk.[8]
- 19 December - Birth of the company Il tempo TV, aiming to create of the first Italian commercial network. Its president is Renato Angiolillo, owner and director of the Roman right-wing newspaper Il Tempo.[9] After a four-years-long legal battle, the project is definitively stopped by a sentence of the Constitutional Court.[10]
- 31 December - The covering of the Italian territory by the TV signal is completed.
Debuts
- L'amico degli animali (The animals' friend), hosted by Angelo Lombardi, educational show about zoology.[11] The Lombardi's phrases "Hello, friends of my friends" and "Andalù, take it away", said to his African helper, become proverbial.
- Primo applauso (First applause), talent show, hosted by Enzo Tortora, who begins his long career as TV showman.[12]
- La piazzetta (The little square), variety show. After three episodes, an exhibition of the dancer Alba Arnova with apparently bare legs (she wore a tight leotard) arouses L'Osservatore romano's protests and the show is deleted.[13]
Television shows
- L'alfiere (The ensign), by Anton Giulio Majano, from Carlo Alianello, historical novel about the Italian unification, seen on the side of the army of the Two Sicilies; to notice the presence, in small roles, of some future stars, as Domenico Modugno, Monica Vitti and Nino Manfredi.
- Cime tempestose (Wuthering Heights), by Mario Landi, from Emily Brontë, with Massimo Girotti as Heathcliff and Anna Maria Ferrero as Catherine Earnshaw.
- Il marziano Filippo (Filippo the Martian), by Cesare Emilio Gaslini, with Oreste Lionello, science-fiction miniserie for children; the plot is strangely similar to the E. T.’s one.
Ending this year
Births
- 30 May – Piero Chiambretti, television presenter
- 7 August - Gerry Scotti, television presenter
Deaths
See also
References
- ↑ Rainews, Redazione di (2019-06-23), Quei magnifici atleti del '56. Scatti e ricordi delle Olimpiadi a Cortina (in Italian), retrieved 2023-12-24
- ↑ "La storia delle Olimpiadi invernali - Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956, i Giochi di Toni Sailer e dell'Urss". NEVEITALIA.IT (in Italian). 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ "Cortina celebra l'Olimpiade del '56 - Altri sport". raisport. 2016-01-23. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ Manfrin, Edoardo (2022-08-08). "La RAI ha pubblicato un filmato inedito dietro le quinte dell'Eurovision 1956" (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ ""Io, la prima cantante italiana all'Eurovision ma non lo sapevo"". La Stampa (in Italian). 2018-05-12. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest, tutti i piazzamenti sul podio dell'Italia". tg24.sky.it (in Italian). 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ Monteleone, Franco (2013-11-26). Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia: Costume, società e politica (in Italian). Marsilio. ISBN 978-88-317-3616-9.
- ↑ ""No abiti sexy e tacchi": Daria Bignardi "vela" Rai3". ilGiornale.it (in Italian). 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ "Cinquanta anni fa moriva il Senatore Renato Angiolillo, precursore della televisione privata". CBlive (in Italian). 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ "Storia della radiotelevisione italiana. Anni '50, Tempo Tv: si tenta di scardinare il monopolio tv RAI". Newslinet (in Italian). 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ↑ Marchesini, Roberto (2022-04-28). L'amore per gli animali: Come la relazione con le altre specie ci ha cambiato (in Italian). Lindau. ISBN 978-88-3353-851-8.
- ↑ Caselli, Roberto; Gilardino, Stefano (2019-11-12). Storia del rock in Italia: Protagonisti, album, concerti, luoghi: tutto quanto è stato rock dagli anni '50 a oggi (in Italian). HOEPLI EDITORE. ISBN 978-88-203-9445-5.
- ↑ Grasso, Aldo (2018-03-21). "Quel balletto di Alba Arnova, primo dei grandi «scandali» Rai". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
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