Aldo Biscardi
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Aldo Biscardi, is an Italian football TV presenter, best known for conducting the show Il Processo di Biscardi (The Monday Trial).

A native of Larino
Larino
Larino is a town and comune of approximately 8,200 inhabitants in Molise, province of Campobasso, southern Italy. It is located in the fertile valley of the Biferno River....

, in the province of Campobasso
Province of Campobasso
The Province of Campobasso is a province in the Molise region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Campobasso.It has an area of 2,909 km², and a total population of 230,692...

, he graduated in Law from the University of Naples. In 1952 he began working on the daily Neapolitan newspaper, Il Mattino. In 1956 he became the sports editor of the Rome sport paper PCI Paese Sera, of which he would later become editor-in-chief.

In 1979 he began his television career, taking charge of Raitre sporting broadcasts and in 1980 was presenting programmes on a range of channels, gaining poularity for his down-to-earth style of chatting and for his linguistic gaffes and puns.

In 1980, Biscardi launched his RaiTre creation, Il Processo del Lunedì. In the first series, Enrico Ameri presented the show followed by Marino Bartoletti, with Biscardi taking the backseat role of editor.

In 1993, Biscardi moved to Tele+ and took on the range of sports offered by that channel, re-introducing the Il Processo di Biscardi programme with the same formula and name, followed, in 1996, by another move to Telemontecarlo
Telemontecarlo
Tele Monte Carlo was the Italian language television channel from the Principality of Monaco.-History:...

. His flagship programme would continue on the channel before it became, from 2001, La7
La7
La7 is an Italian television channel owned by Telecom Italia Media and operated by Telecom Italia.-History:In 2001, Lorenzo Pellicioli and Roberto Colaninno, of Telecom Italia announced they had acquired Telemontecarlo, in order to create a strong competitor against the six other national channels...

.

In 2005, with the birth of the digital terrestrial channel La7, Biscardi became director of sport of La7 and director of a channel of digital terrestrial called La7 Sport which was founded in August 2005 but then folded in April 2007.

Involvement in Calciopoli

In May 2006, extracts from intercepted telephone conversations between Biscardi and Luciano Moggi
Luciano Moggi
Luciano Moggi is an Italian football managing director. He was the general director of Juventus F.C. from 1994 until May 2006, years that anointed him as one of the most successful football managing director except the last two club seasons that were involved in Calciopoli...

 were revealed. In the climate of the scandal which became known as Calciopoli, it was revealed that the Juventus official had instructed Biscardi on what to say or not say during his television transmission. Biscardi therefore joined the list of those under investigation (July 2007) although he was later archived with a penal profile. In the meantime, Biscardi left La7 (May 2006) and took his programme with him to a new channel, 7 Gold
7 Gold
Founded on January 1, 2000 by the Italian business people Giorgio Tacchino, Giorgio Galante and Luigi Ferretti, 7 Gold is an Italy-based television network, owned by some its affiliated, and broadcast as TV Syndication....

. At the same time, in September 2006, the Italian Order of Journalists imposed a 6 month suspension due to the scandal which led to an open and heated confrontation with the Order.
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