Overview

• Baudo died late Saturday at Rome’s Campus Biomedico at 89 after a decades-long battle with cancer, the news confirmed by ANSA and his lawyer Giorgio Assumma.
• RAI devoted an extraordinary edition of TG1 to his passing, drawing 2.226 million viewers and an 18.2% share as audiences commemorated his record 13 editions of the Sanremo Festival.
• A public camera ardente opens today at the Campus Biomedico with a second vigil planned at RAI’s Viale Mazzini studios, inviting the public to pay respects.
• Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday, August 20, in Baudo’s hometown of Militello Val di Catania, following the family’s wishes.
• Colleagues, cultural figures and political leaders including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella have lauded his six-decade influence and talent-scouting legacy.