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Three interesting facts about Italian TV

Fact 1. The main broadcasters RAI and Mediaset recently got fined for showing too many commercials.
Fact 2. Fewer people are watching it. (This fact is related to fact 1., most probably.)
Fact 3. It’s 90% crap. ( OK, so it’s not an ‘interesting’ fact, but it’s true – look at the above two facts.)

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About Alex Roe

Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex is a Business Insider Europe contributor.

When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates, writes articles for other web sites and runs training courses.

Alex tweets news and information about Italy to his 7400+ Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly.

Comments

  1. Star says:

    ur show sucks!!

  2. Alex says:

    Er, thanks Star – shame you feel unable to use your real name – not embarrassed are we, by any chance? And I thought this was a blog, not a show – but I’m quite flattered you think it is a show.

    Cheers!

    Alex

  3. payton says:

    um……a negitive arent we……

  4. Alex says:

    Payton – have u ever watched Italian TV? It either drains yer brain or makes you negative…..

  5. Alex says:

    “http://www.xanga.com/sexy_baby_totally_101
    wow this site sucks and tells me a lot of bullshit and it gets on my nerves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! christinebarrentine@yahoo.com

    I had deleted this comment because I thought it was spam because of this IP: http://www.xanga.com/sexy_baby_totally_101
    However there appears to be a sort of blog there, so I’ll let it stand. Not a great idea to leave your email address on the www, though. I would like to know exactly what ‘bullshit’ there is and why it gets on her nerves so much.

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  7. watever says:

    italian tv ruins your IQ and if u watch it too much makes u a stupid person

  8. Damien says:

    this website blows

  9. Alex says:

    watever – u r rite.

    Damien – I’m tempted to reply ‘…and Italian, generally, TV sucks’, but I won’t.

    Thanks for your constructive criticism.

    Are you someone else who is suffering from the ill effects of watch too much Italian TV? ;)

  10. Domenic says:

    Italy Rules!! Forza Milan!!!

  11. Shinayd says:

    Man, Why is everyone so mean to you? Who actually gives a stuff if Italian tv ruins ur IQ?
    It’s your choice to watch it and if you do then.. yay for you..
    Maybe Italy does suck, but so? Why waste your time dissing it? It’s just silly..
    Well done on making the website Alex ;)

  12. Alex says:

    Shinayd – thanks for the support and yes, you can choose to watch or not. If you do watch it, then you can decide whether I have a point or not.

    Italy does not suck. Far from it – like most countries it has its problems. Italian TV is one of them – still, I guess Rupert Murdoch must be quite a happy bunny. For those who want to watch tv, and good tv is worth watching, Sky’s programming is about a million times better than all the free to air Italian TV channels put together. As I’ve said before, if I could choose between Italian free to air and Sky, I would go for Sky. I would go for Sky, it’s just that I don’t want to pay any more. I suppose there is a lot of truth in the saying ‘you get what you pay for’….

    Alex

  13. andrew says:

    I cant believe i just read all those things this is a waste of time and i dont even watch italian tv soo dont diss me sayin”u must watch itaillin tv cause your iq is stupid” this site sucks ..but alex nice job commented back everyone a+ i would recomend this site to anyone who wAnts to have 10 minuetes of there lives ruined by this!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. DAVE says:

    I’VE WATCHED ITALIAN TV, AND APART FROM THE OVER-LONG BREAKS, GENERALLY IT’S OK – AT LEAST ITS NOT AS BAD AS AMERICAN TV WHERE THEY HAVE ANNOYING ONE MINUTE BREAKS EVERY FIVE MINUTES AND BECOMES UNWATCHABLE. ALSO, THERE ARE SOME NICE LOOKING ITALIAN WOMEN ON THE GAMESHOWS……

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