1963 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1963.

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Events

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  • January 6: Tony Renis wins Canzonissima 1962 with Quando quando quando.
  • January 20: First issue of the magazine TV7 (see below). it is inaugurated by a director Giorgio Vecchietti’s interview to the Italian president Antonio Segni.[1]
  • February 6: Tony Renis, now teamed with Emilio Pericoli, wins also the 1963 Sanremo music festival with Uno per tutte. The final evening of the contest, hosted by Mike Bongiorno, is the most seen show of the year, with 13, 4 million viewiers.[2]
  • 27 July – For the first time, RAI airs the David di Donatello ceremony.
  • 8–9 OctoberVajont dam disaster. RAI suspends for a day the ordinary schedule and carries in the Italian houses the images of the tragedy. On 14 October, TV7 (see below) airs, without preventive control, a report of the free-lancer Antonello Branca where the survivors denounce openly the human responsibilities for the slaughter. Later, both Branca and the TV7 chief editor Claudio Savonuzzi are removed from RAI.[3]

Debuts

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News and educational

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  • Almanacco (Almanach) – program of popular science and culture, hosted by Giancarlo Sbragia and, later, by Nando Gazzolo.
  • L’approdo (The landing) – literary magazine, hosted by Edmonda Aldini and Giancarlo Sbragia, with illustrious collaborators as Riccardo Bacchelli and Giuseppe Ungaretti already existing on radio (since 1944) and on paper (since 1952). Often accused to be boring and elitist, it’s however a precious witness about the Italian cultural life by then.[4]
  • TV7 – weekly magazine of journalistic analysis, hosted by Sergio Zavoli, with important collaborators as Piero Angela, Corrado Augias, Goffredo Parise, and even Pier Paolo Pasolini. In contrast with the conformism of the official news programs, the TV7’s reportages face thorny subject with a vivacious style; for this, they often cause controversies and suffer censures. The program, after having changed the heading many times, is again on air by now, with the original title.[5]

Variety

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Television shows

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Drama

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Miniseries

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Serials

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Variety

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News and educational

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Deaths

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  • June 2: Giacomo Vaccari, 32, director, by a car accident.

References

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  1. ^ "Va ora in onda: TV7". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  2. ^ Hit (2010-08-04). "Auditel Rewind - 1963". TvBlog (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  3. ^ "Tv7, quando la tv disturbava i palazzi e i benpensanti – Articolo21" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  4. ^ "Approdo Letterario". www.approdoletterario.teche.rai.it. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  5. ^ "Il rotocalco televisivo di informazione: Tv7 racconta l'Italia degli anni Sessanta – Officina Della Storia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  6. ^ "Francis Durbridge e la RAI - Paura per Janet". vicolostretto.net. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  7. ^ "Il mulino del Po - Lo sceneggiato - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  8. ^ "Peppino Girella - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  9. ^ ""Far finta di essere... GABER" - Dettaglio articolo/intervista". www.giorgiogaber.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  10. ^ "Viaggio nell'Italia che cambia - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  11. ^ "Storia della bomba atomica". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  12. ^ "La TV di Liliana Cavani. Un romanzo di formazione". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-07.