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ROME – The after Carlo Fuortes, whatever the structure that will be determined in Rai, will not be a walk in the park. Even just the idea that Rai can stand without the license fee, as the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini has been preaching for some time, would make any candidate for succession tremble. Meanwhile, there are the ritual procedures to follow. The resignations delivered to the shareholder, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, must be presented to the chairman of the board of directors Marinella Soldi without necessarily being communicated to the remaining directors in a special meeting. It will be the Ministry of the Economy, in agreement with the government, that will have to reinstate the board of directors, indicating a new name that will pass to the Council of Ministers. Then after a shareholders’ meeting, the board will ratify the new CEO. The latter will eventually choose the new general manager. The rest of the board of directors will instead survive Fuortes, because this was decided in the Cecellian subdivision of checks and balances which even the Meloni government did not escape. The summits These are the stages. As for the names, there shouldn’t be any surprises: Roberto Sergio, current director of Radio Rai, will be the CEO, while the general director should be Gianpaolo Rossi, communication expert, former Rai manager and former board member. Precisely this precedent would have prevented Rossi from immediately aiming for the main seat. Instead, having to wait for a round, Rossi would only arrive at the role of CEO upon expiry of this board, being invested with the management of the next three years. A relay race that is easy to describe but it will not be taken for granted that it will take place exactly as it is. Sergio is a very strong internal manager and will not be overshadowed by the charismatic Rossi. Nor should we forget that Marinella Soldi remains president and she too is a respectable television manager, who has been able to demonstrate little in Fuortes’ two-year period. The departments The triarchy will be immediately put to the test by the round of appointments that is looming and which involves the genre departments, which are the ones who must define the autumn schedules as soon as possible (and therefore the management of the next programmes) and the departments of newspapers. The next structures have been the subject of political negotiations for weeks and the complete picture does not yet exist. What is certain is that the League aspires to strong compensation for the arrival of Giorgia Meloni’s trusted men at the top of the company. And that Forza Italia is no less, given that it has already fielded the best in terms of negotiations: Gianni Letta. As for the opposition, the Democratic Party has to deal with the M5S with which it will have to share the seats reserved for the minority. The pact that the grillini seemed to have made with Meloni at a certain point, and which would have included a marginalization of the Democratic Party and some compensations, such as the accommodation of the former director of Tg1 Giuseppe Carboni, could be revised. But on the upside. This is what Giuseppe Conte would think, who withdrew his support for Fuortes with the right timing to bring him down: last Sunday live in Lucia Annunziata’s program. At the helm of the flagship magazine, despite Usigrai’s strong opposition, the arrival from outside of Gian Marco Chiocci, wanted by Meloni, is looming. Monica Maggioni seems destined to lead the Editorial Coordination and lead a political programme. In this case, Tg2 will not be able to remain under the guidance of another Melonian, Nicola Rao, who could succeed Antonio Di Bella on Insights, the realm of political talk shows, or go to the Radio. In this way Antonio Preziosi could arrive on Tg2, in Forza Italia’s share, leaving Rai Parlamento, perhaps to Carboni. The League will not give up the direction of the regional newspapers as well as the radio, just as Rai News could remain at FdI. Mario Orfeo would be stable on Tg3. The conductors As for the direction of Entertainment, Stefano Coletta should leave it to Marcello Ciannamea, in the Lega share. While the Melonian Angelo Mellone would land at the Day Time. Fabio Fazio and his transmission will be discussed in the next board of directors, but from the conductor’s words, last Sunday live, there was an air of profound detachment. A landing on Nine would be looming for him. Manuela Moreno should instead arrive from Tg2 on Agor, also on Rai3, while Salvini’s Roberto Poletti would return to Uno Mattina. The positions of Bianca Berlinguer and Lucia Annunziata seem untouchable, while Marco Damilano already yesterday suffered shelling from Maurizio Gasparri, together with Fabio Fazio. Among the conductors who seem to be on the way to new important positions are Laura Tecce, Monica Setta, Annalisa Bruchi, Pino Insegno, Nunzia De Girolamo, with some surprise additions from the outside: we are talking about Nicola Porro.

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