The news was announced by Corriere della Sera which reconstructed the story: Canale was forced into forced inactivity from 2006 to 2013, as underlined by the second instance judges
Alessandra Canale has won the legal battle with Rai. A very long judicial tug-of-war which ended with compensation for the presenter for “demotion and damage to her image”. To the former “Miss Good Evening”, historic Rai announcer now in her sixties, busy hosting “Green Wave” And “Evening weather“, the state TV will have to pay 45 thousand euros for reputational damage due to the work duties assigned to her for seven years, between 2006 and 2013, to which must be added 8,830 euros for “biological damage“.
The news was announced by Corriere della Sera who reconstructed the story: Canale was forced into forced inactivity during the years in question, as underlined by the second instance judges. The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal proposed by Rai to the appeal sentence pronounced in 2022 “in which the judges of second instance declared illegitimate the attribution to Canale of a role other than that of announcer. It was then the Court of Appeal itself that quantified the biological and image damage suffered by the former Miss Buonasera. The declaration of inadmissibility of the appeal makes the appeal sentence definitive”.
Canale, at the registry office Alessandra Pimpinella, began in 1981 by participating in the Miss Italia competition, two years after her debut as an announcer. Commitments to the cinema and the small screen, in the nineties Alessandra was linked to the former Forza Italia MP Amedeo Matacena, now a fugitive in Dubai, with whom he had a son, Amedeo Junior. In 2013 she married the sports agent Antonio Caliendo. The tense climate between Canale and Rai had had public warnings, on 20 September 2002 the actress in tears announced her exclusion live: “I love you all“, he said, addressing the viewers. At the moment there are no official comments from the announcer and Rai.
