The Pino Insegno case it doesn't let up. L'Eredità was skipped and goes to Marco Liorni, the host of Il Mercante in Fiera will be entrusted with the next edition of Reazione a Catena on Rai 1. His manager, Diego Righinistill declares satisfaction, but is still on a war footing, unleashing the wrath of the CEO Roberto Sergiowho now wants to “see clearly”.
“Rai is forced to respond to the ongoing controversial statements and positions that are, frankly, no longer acceptable. I have given an order to Rai's legal department about this Investigate what the Insegno manager has explained as appropriate actions“
the Rai CEO told La Presse.
What the Insegno manager said
In recent days, Diego Righini, no stranger to controversial statements, declared “war” on Lucio Presta, Marco Liorni’s manager, with a toxic interview on TvBlog:
“Pino Insegno has chosen Reazione a Catena, his historic program in which he still holds the absolute share record at Rai, and leaves it Presta's boy (refers to Marco Liorni, supported by agent Lucio Presta, NdDM) the possibility of making L'Eredità (…). We can no longer tolerate this communication controlled by the left of Rai and Lucio Presta. In life, I'm used to facing the enemy head-on and not taking it out on his henchmen. The war is with him. He wages war against me and I wage war against him. He's hiding, I'm not.
Insegno's manager again explained to Presta: “In hot moments I met him in Rai and he sort of lowered his eyes and left.” There are 16 conductors… but what do you want? Why does he have to break up with Pino? Maybe because he doesn't want to compete with his own… You'll see Now Presta will do anything because he is afraid that Pino will earn 1-2% more than Liorni. He'll break our balls“.
Furthermore, Righini emphasized that “we immediately We wanted Chain Reaction because it's Pino's program, a host used to getting maximum shares on Rai 1. We had been making the request since Simona Sala was director of Daytime. That didn't work because Liorni had a contract for this show and wanted to host it until the last episode without giving it up first (…) Then Rai said to us: “Liorni's contract has now expired, the place has become free.” Chain Reaction, do you want to do it?'. Pino immediately said “yes” and Rai sent us a certified email requesting permission, it was a formal letter signed by Angelo Mellone, the current director of Daytime Entertainment.”
Hence the anger of Roberto Sergio.