“In September Amadeus will arrive on the Nine with Identitythe format known in Italy as The usual unknown. It is a first entry into the field on our channel with a product that speaks to everyone, with the freshness of a format that represents it and is highly recognisable.” To say it on the pages of Republic is Laura Carafoli, head of content for the Warner group for Southern Europe. According to what emerges, Rai would not have renewed the rights to the format, broadcast on the main network from 20 March 2017 to 15 April 2023. In short: the program will change its name and network, but will remain under the management of Amadeus.
These latest developments led to a statement from the journalists’ union UsigRai: “If Amadeus leaves Rai and also takes away the successful formats, the problem for the company is not insignificant. There are advertising contracts at stake and the public who could together change the channel. Yet in Viale Mazzini they pretend nothing has happened and the leaders, old and new at the same time, appear happy to sign new multi-million dollar contracts while on the other hand they cancel trade union agreements or try to sign new ones without having put in place. in the account there is no evaluation relating to an industrial plan whose effects on the organization of work and on the company’s accounts have not yet been measured. The generic reassurances of the expiring top management on the maintenance of employment perimeters are of little value”.
And again: “For our part, we only see real cuts in salaries, zero investments in news, reductions in staff, direct calls for new external collaborators and an unnatural proliferation of ad personam qualifications which appears more often detached from any industrial and product reasoning An overall logic that is increasing the desk work of journalists who, without crews and technicians to carry out the services, no longer leave the editorial offices and are increasingly conditioned by the use of images and news packaged by the press offices instead of the possibility of directly verify the facts for information that is truly at the service of citizens and not a megaphone for particular interests”. As regards the fate of Affari Tuoi, another program hosted by Amadeus, the helm will pass to Stefano De Martino also on Rai 1.
