Overview

• His daughter, Sveva, announced he died Tuesday at the Residenza San Felice care home in Segrate, near Milan.
• Condolences came from senior figures and colleagues including Ignazio La Russa, Antonio Tajani, Matteo Salvini, Maurizio Gasparri, Letizia Moratti, Licia Ronzulli, Alessandra Locatelli, Bruno Vespa and Enrico Mentana.
• Mentana remembered him as a leading anchorman well before TG4 and credited him with normalizing openly aligned news programs, while Vittorio Feltri lauded his skill despite a difficult temperament.
• Across five decades he moved from RAI—where he reported from Africa and later led TG1—to Mediaset, directing Videonews and Studio Aperto and anchoring TG4 from 1992 to 2012.
• His public image remained inseparable from loyalty to Silvio Berlusconi, with later criminal cases and scandals contributing to a steep decline in his media presence.