During today’s episode of Ore 14, the last episode of this season, Milo Infante showed the important numbers obtained by his program in the middle of the broadcast, complete with data and graphs, at a very specific time, the ore 14:53with a symbolic value revealed directly by the journalist and presenter:
It’s 2:53 PM, allow us a minute to talk about us. 2 PM, yesterday, reaches 9.8%, we were one step away from 10%. It’s an important milestone. You’re probably wondering: “But why is he saying this now?” Because it’s 2:53 PM and if we go back in time, on November 19, 2020, at 2:53 PM, we recorded the lowest point of ratings for this program, 1.83%. We were the last, Rai 2 was the last. Many journalists wrote Rai 2%, we were part of the programs that didn’t work. Yesterday, at 2:53 PM, Rai 2 was the second network for viewers after Canale 5. This year we close with 855 thousand viewers on average and 7.5% share, with +25% growth compared to last year. Not many people have seen this data and we thought we’d tell each other.
At the end of the episode, after the ritual thanks to the public, the team and the guests, Milo Infante also thanked Rai, underlining the climate of freedom in which he was able to work:
I thank Rai, I have already said it in unsuspecting times because no one has ever told me what I had to say. I have to admit this, I have already said it but I have to repeat it: no one has ever come to me to say “You have to say this thing”. Ore 14 is a free broadcast, some like it, some don’t. Some would like us to continue, some hope that other things will arrive instead but thank you, thanks to Rai that allows us to go on air freely in a country where freedom of the press is increasingly in danger, we continue to go down in this ranking of free countries.
And turning to Roberta Bruzzone (“I’m sorry to disappoint the crows’ expectations but we will come back more beautiful and stronger than ever!”), Milo Infante responded like this:
Let’s hope so…
