1954 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1954.

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Events

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  • 3 January. After five years of experimentation, the speaker Fulvia Colombo [it] announces from the Milan studios, the official beginning of the TV broadcasting on Italy.[1] This is the schedule of the day:
11 AM Inaugural ceremony, from the studios of Milan, Turin and Rome, with the three cities’ mayors, the Rome vicar cardinal Clemente Micara, the Minister of Communications Modesto Panetti and the RAI president Cristiano Ridomi.
2.30 PM Arrivi e partenze (see below) – the first show of Italian television
2.45 PM Short film
3 PM L’orchestra delle quindici (The 3 PM orchestra): musical show, hosted by Febo Conti
3.30 PM Short film
3.45 PM Sport
5.30 PM Le miserie del signor Travet (His young wife) by Mario Soldati – the first movie broadcast by Italian television
7 PM Art documentary about Giovanbattista Tiepolo (first Italian educational TV show).
8.45 PM News (read by the speaker Riccardo Paladini [it] and fully dedicated to the inaugural ceremony)
9,15 PM Teleclub – talk-show
9,45 PM L’osteria della posta (The mail tavern) – comedy by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Franco Enriquez, with Isa Barzizza, the first play broadcast by the Italian television
10,45 PM Settenote (Seven notes) - musical show.
11,15 PM La Domenica sportiva (The sporty Sunday)[2]

The TV signal covers Northern Italy, Rome and the Tyrrhenian side of Central Italy. The transmissions last four hours and a quarter by day (from 5:30 to 11:30 PM, with a pause from 7 to 8:45; from 11 AM to 4 PM and from 5 PM to 11:30 PM during the holidays). The TV programming relies on music, plays and films; the news are strictly institutional and focused on the official ceremonies. The subscribers to the new media are initially just 90, but a month later they number already 24,000 people.

Debuts

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  • Un, due, tre (One, two, three) – variety, directed by Mario Landi, lasted for six seasons. It is conceived as a parade of international stars, but soon the comic duo Ugo Tognazzi and Raimondo Vianello wins the audience's attention and becomes the focus of the show. Some of their sketches caricaturing other TV shows; as Mario Soldati's Travel in the Po valley, looking for genuine foods (with Vianello as the writer-gastronome) or the enquiry The working woman (with Tognazzi in woman dress) are very popular today again.[8] After five years of huge critic and public success, the show is roughly suppressed, because of a sketch where the duo, using the freedom of the live broadcast, politely mocked the president Giovanni Gronchi.[9]
  • Una risposta per voi (An answer for you) – educational program, lasted 13 seasons. The university professor Alessandro Cutolo answers to the letters of the viewers on every subject.

Television shows

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Drama

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Ending this year

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Somalvico, Bruno Maria (2011-03-23). "Cronologia radiotelevisiva II: 1945-1975: cronologia della radio e della televisione. 1: 1945-1975". Cronologia radiotelevisiva II. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  2. ^ "Da oggi la televisione inizia..." Radiocorriere. 3–9 January 1954.
  3. ^ Bellavita, Andrea (2022-05-17). La grande storia e il piccolo schermo: Strategie di riscrittura nel period drama contemporaneo (in Italian). Mimesis. ISBN 978-88-575-9242-8.
  4. ^ Grasso, Aldo (1996). Enciclopedia della televisione Garzanti (in Italian). Garzanti. p. 643. ISBN 978-88-11-50466-5.
  5. ^ "Italia-Egitto, la prima diretta del calcio". Famiglia Cristiana (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  6. ^ Viareggio, al via il Carnevale centocinquantenario (in Italian), 2023-02-04, retrieved 2023-12-24
  7. ^ Editore, Nanni. "Tv: il 6 giugno 1954 nasceva l'Eurovisione >> Cultura e Spettacoli - New Media - TV e Radio :: Nannimagazine.it". www.nannimagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  8. ^ "Tognazzi à la carte". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  9. ^ "Ugo Tognazzi e Raimondo Vianello in Tv (ricordi di Raimondo Vianello)". www.ugotognazzi.com. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  10. ^ "Memorie - Fatti e persone da ricordare - Arrivi e partenze, la prima trasmissione della TV - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-16.