Lilli, Enrico and La7 in the background. On the other, the Warner Bros world: a paradise, given the millionaire contracts stipulated with some big names “ripped” from Rai (Fazio and Amadeus, for now). Italia Oggi, an authoritative newspaper, in an article by Claudio Plazzotta (always super informed), reports that “Discovery already has around 100 million subscribers to its streaming offers. And therefore it can sit at the adults’ table, with Netflix which has 270 million or Disney+ which has almost 118 million.” A detail that absolutely must not be underestimated.
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But there is another detail, after the long-distance tele-argument between Mentana and Gruber (the two, a few evenings ago, clashed verbally over a vitriolic remark from Lilli, who later began her program on La 7 due to a small temporal “overrun” of Mentana). Someone thought that Chicco wants to play the move to Nove card, dumping Cairo. But this is apparently fake news. In fact, Alessandro Araimo – Ad Warner Bros Discovery Italia, tells Italia Oggi: “Mentana? I’ve never met him. An all-news channel in Italy doesn’t make any sense.” Case closed. Perhaps.
