The new directors of RAI networks

The Rai Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Teresa De Santis as the new director of Rai Uno and Carlo Freccero as a director of Rai Due. Stefano Coletta has been confirmed as director of Rai Tre. The board also approved the appointment of Auro Bulbarelli as a director of Rai Sport and Antonio Preziosi as a director of Rai Parlamento. The appointments, approved as planned, were proposed by the managing director Fabrizio Salini, appointed last July with the controversial general manager Marcello Foa. The board of directors – which is now controlled by members nominated by the League and the 5-Star Movement – "thanked the outgoing network and headteachers Angelo Teodoli, Andrea Fabiano, Bruno Gentili and Nicoletta Manzione for their valuable work ".

Teresa De Santis, Rai Uno's new director, is a journalist and a Rai official who was previously Deputy Director of Rai Uno with Fabrizio Del Noce, then Deputy Director of Televideo (a period described by the media as "an exile") , after starting to work. as a journalist al manifesto. Described in the newspapers as "Lega Quota", "Welcome to the League" or "Neo-Grill" – in the political division of Rai appointments, the Rai Uno leadership is still a pro-government choice – it will be the first woman to direct Rai one.

Carlo Freccero is one of the most famous Italian television directors. In the last legislature, he was elected a member of the Rai Board of Directors on the Indication of the Five Star Movement. He is 71 years old – he is retired. He will therefore have to fulfill his mission for free – and will lead Rai Due for the second time in his career, after doing it from 1996 to 2002. He has long been considered a "leftist" manager – Under his leadership of Rai Due, the Guzzanti brothers, Serena Dandini, Fabio Fazio, Gad Lerner, Daniele Luttazzi and Michele Santoro found space – but they have long said they voted for Movimento 5 Stelle. After leaving Rai Due's management in 2002, he has been Chairman of RaiSat since 2007 and director of Rai Quattro since 2008, a position he left in 2013.

Stefano Coletta, confirmed to the management of Rai Tre "in centro centristraistra", is a business executive who started his career in Rai in 1991 as an author and radio broadcaster, before becoming responsible project for important Rai Tre programs. between 1997 and 2007. From February 2013 to the management appointment, which took place in 2017, he was deputy director of Rai Tre, responsible for programming and marketing.

Auro Bulbarelli, who will lead Rai Sport, is 48 years old and is one of Italy's best-known sports commentators, best known for having followed major cycling competitions. Since 2009, he was deputy director of Rai Sport. Antonio Preziosi, who will lead Rai Parlamento, is a journalist and has previously been director of Rai Radio 1, Giornale Radio Rai and Rai GR Parlamento. He is considered very close to the Church – he was director of the Vatican Television Center and a member of the "Pontifical Council for Social Communications" – and since 2015, he was RAI correspondent in Brussels.