Rai, Nicola Rao towards the direction of Tg2 (in place of Sangiuliano)

Nicholas Rao he is on his way to becoming the new director of Tg2. The current deputy director of Tg1 (since the end of 2021) is the only one to have put forward his candidacy by sending his curriculum vitae to the Rai Board of Directors, which on Wednesday will have to decide on the replacement for Gennaro Sangiuliano, who in the meantime has become minister of culture. at the top of the news of the second network.

The appointment of Rao, a professional journalist since 1989 and who worked on Tg2 from 2003 to 2010, always considered close to the right, had been in the air for weeks, and as we wrote here, it is part of a redesign of public TV by the new government and the new majority. In recent weeks, Prime Minister Meloni had met the CEO of Rai in great secrecy Carlo Fuortes, whose mandate expires in 2024. In the plans of the Brothers of Italy, the only party excluded from the match at the time of the appointments decided by the Draghi government, there is the intention to appoint Giampaolo Rossi, a Meloni loyalist, as general manager . In short, Rao’s almost obvious appointment will be just the beginning of a series of choices that will lead the new executive to take over state television.