Book Explores Italy's TV by Explaining the Past.Dom Serafini's new book, Veltroni e io ("Veltroni and I") focuses on three parallel tracks: digital TV in Italy (or the lack thereof), the failure of TV reforms that were promised in 1994 and the history of modern Italian television. In this book, Serafini describes how Walter Veltroni Walter Veltroni (born July 3, 1955) is an Italian politician, leader-elect of the Democratic Party, and Mayor of Rome since 2001. He was elected as first Democratic Party leader on October 14, 2007, winning a open primary summing around 2. , a powerful leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left politician with the backing of Italian industrialists and media magnate Carlo De Benedetti, has attempted to force his "punitive" legislation onto the Italian audiovisual landscape and, in the process, has wreaked havoc with the domestic TV sector and even the Italian government. In Serafini's view, Italy is today influenced by three industrialists: De Benedetti on the left, Fiat's Gianni Agnelli Giovanni Agnelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 2003), better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3. in the center and Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. on the right. Each figure has an arsenal of media properties at his disposal and often uses them to shape policy. The problem, as indicated in the book, is that each one of these three powerful and wealthy individuals cannot stomach each other and, consequently, the Italian public is caught in the crossfire A multi-GPU interface from ATI for connecting two ATI display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor. CrossFire machines require PCI Express slots, a CrossFire-enabled motherboard and, depending on which models are used, either a pair of ATI Radeon adapters or one . Serafini compares the Italian TV industry to that of the Caribbean area and quotes an English magazine describing Italian TV as "the world's worst television." Before Veltroni was allowed to exert his influence, Italian TV was at the center of the universe and responsible for introducing commercial TV into mainland Europe in 1978, showcasing an important TV festival (Prix Italia), presenting a must-attend film festival (in Venice) and founding the first audiovisual market (MIFED MIFED Mouvement International des Femmes Démocrates (French; Ivory Coast) ). During this time, many Italian productions were sold to U.S. TV networks (Jesus of Nazareth, Marco Polo, etc.). By 1982, Italy boasted Europe's largest number of private TV networks and owned TV stations in Spain, France and Germany. The book is published by Edizioni Pubblicita Italia, a publishing group based in Milan. This is Serafini's fourth Italian book. Last year he published Webcasting: TV via Internet. Serafini is the editor of Video Age and Webcasting Magazine, both TV trade magazines based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The book has 170 pages divided into 53 sections and costs [pound]20,000 (US$10). |
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