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Mike Bongiorno

Mike Bongiorno, a ła nagrafe Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno[1][2][3][4][5] (New York, 26 de majo1924 - Monte Carlo, 8 de setenbre2009) l'é stà un condutore tełevixivo, condutore radiofonico e giornałista itało-american, considerà uno dei "pionieri" de ła tełevixionitaliana[6][7].

Tra i programi tełevixivi da łu condoti inte ła so' cariera tełevixiva, inissià in RAI inte 'el 1954[1][2][3][7][8] e proseguìa in Fininvest/Mediaset a partire da l'inixio dei ani otanta[1][2][3][7][8], ricordemo Lascia o raddoppia?, Scommettiamo?, La fiera dei sogni, Flash, Bis, Telemike, La ruota della fortuna, Bravo Bravissimo, C'era una volta il Festival, ecc.[1][2][3][7]
Al so' ativo el gaveva anche la conduxion de 10 edixion[7] del Festival de Sanremo (ła prima inte el 1963[5][7][9], l'ultima inte el 1997&

Mike Bongiorno

Italian American television host (1924–2009)

Mike Bongiorno

Mike Bongiorno in 1972

Born

Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno


(1924-05-26)May 26, 1924

New York City, U.S.

DiedSeptember 8, 2009(2009-09-08) (aged 85)

Monte Carlo, Monaco

OccupationPresenter
Years active1946–2009
Spouses

Rosalia Maresca

(m. ; div. 1952)​

Annarita Torsello

(m. ; div. 1970)​

Daniela Zuccoli

(m. )​
Children3

Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (Italian:[bɔnˈdʒorno,-bonˈ-]; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009) was an American Italian television presenter. After a few experiences in the U.S., he started working on RAI in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He was also known by the nickname il Re del Quiz ('The Quiz King'), and the peculiarity of starting all his shows with his trademark greeting: Allegria! ('Cheers!', 'Joy!').[1]

Mike Bongiorno, 1924 – 2024, an exhibition at the Royal Palace of Milan

He was a blond boy with very light eyes who on January 3, 1954 appeared behind that curved glass of a box full of valves called television, with the first RAI program, Arrivi e partenze, broadcast on Sundays at 2:30 pm.

People went to see him at the bar, the war had just ended and that proverbial Allegria that the host transformed into his trademark was the most you could wish for, along with lightheartedness.

Two of Bongiorno's warhorses, the partisan Mike, a courier for the resistance in Piedmont, where he had arrived with his mother shortly before from New York, his hometown.

In 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo and saved from execution thanks to his American passport. San Vittore, then concentration camps in Carinthia and Austria where he was freed to reach the USA.

After an experience in the local media, he returned to Italy and presented himself as the symbol of a new era. With that very first and pioneering broadcast he brought the world into homes and bars and TV became an «age

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