TG1 is the brand for Italian state-owned TV channel Rai 1's news program

News program

A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors...

mes. They are shown domestically on Rai Uno

Rai Uno

Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...

 and across the Europe on Rai News 24 and the world on Raitalia several times throughout the day. The journalist Augusto Minzolini is the editor-in-chief.

Programme format

The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 but with additional newsreaders for the sports. Most items will be made up of reports and are generally preceded and followed by the correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

 reporting live from the scene of the report. The programme is followed by a weather report

Weather report

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 known as Meteo and a financial news report, known as TG1 Economia.

Daily programme

Where also broadcast many others feature with TG1 brand, all on Rai Uno

Rai Uno

Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...

:

• Unomattina (a morning news program)
• Speciale TG1
• TV7
• TG1 Economia
• Do Re Ciak Gulp!
• Terra e sapori
• Un minuto di storia
• TG1 Storia
• TG1 Turbo
• TG1 Musica
• TG1 Cinema
• TG1 Mostre ed eventi
• TG1 Teatro
• Benjamin - TG1 Libri

Criticism and controversies

The Undersecretary to Communications Paolo Romani, member of The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....

, in an interview with the newspaper Il Tempo

Il Tempo

Il Tempo is a daily Italian newspaper. It was founded in Rome, Italy by Renato Angiolillo in 1944 and currently publishes the Rome edition and other five local editions ....

, has defined that the TG1 "seems politically affiliate with the Centre-left

Centre-left

Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...

".

However it is criticized by the newspaper la Repubblica

La Repubblica

la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...

for political bias in favour of The People of Freedom party and its leader Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

, when the politician Antonio Di Pietro

Antonio Di Pietro

Antonio Di Pietro is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament, an Italian Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government...

 requested the dismissal of the editor in chief of TG1 Augusto Minzolini, comparing him to Emilio Fede

Emilio Fede

Emilio Fede is an Italian anchorman, journalist and writer. He has been the director of TG1 , a news programme on Raiuno.-Biography:Fede was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily....

, editor-in-chief of a newscast broadcated by one of the television channels personally owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

Presenters

• TG1 Mattina - early morning edition (broadcast several times daily during the morning; runtime: 3 – 12 minutes); Adriana Pannitteri, Marco Betello, Alessandra Di Tommaso, Cristina Guerra, Barbara Capponi;

• TG1 ore 13:30 - lunch edition (broadcast daily; runtime: 30 – 35 minutes); Marco Frittella, Francesca Grimaldi, Nicoletta Manzione, Filippo Gaudenzi;

• TG1 Economia - economical edition (broadcast Monday to Friday after TG1 ore 13.30; runtime: 7 – 12 minutes); Manuela De Luca, Loris Gai, Michele Renzulli;

• TG1 ore 17:00 - afternoon edition (broadcast Monday to Saturday; runtime: 7 – 12 minutes); Marco Franzelli, Leonardo Sgura, Laura Mambelli, Barbara Carfagna;

• TG1 ore 20:00 - evening edition (broadcast daily; runtime: 30 – 35 minutes); Francesco Giorgino, Susanna Petruni, Attilio Romita, Laura Chimenti;

• TG1 60 Secondi - half night edition (broadcast daily; runtime: 1 minute) (before September 14, 2010 called TG1 Mezzasera; runtime: 7 – 12 minutes); Mariasilvia Santilli, Alberto Matano, Emma D'Aquino, Maria Soave;

• TG1 Notte - night edition (broadcast daily; runtime 25 – 35 minutes); Elisa Anzaldo, Cinzia Fiorato, Alessio Zucchini;

External links

• http://www.tg1.rai.it/