Lamberto Sposini (born 1952) is an Italian journalist and television presenter.
Born in
Foligno
Foligno (; Southern Umbrian: ''Fuligno'') is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is located so ...
, Sposini started his career as a journalist for the newspaper
Paese Sera, then in 1978 he became a collaborator of
RAI TV, working as a redactor, a correspondent and as a news speaker of
TG1.
In 1991 he moved to
Mediaset
Mediaset Italia S.p.A., also known as Mediaset, is an Italian-based mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope. Founded in 1987 by former ...
, where he co-founded the
TG5
''TG5'' (''TeleGiornale 5'') is a news programme on the Italian TV channel Canale 5, part of the Mediaset network and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is broadcast domestically on Canale 5 and Mediaset TGcom24 several times a day. The rating f ...
and became one of its news speaker.
After a short comeback at TG1 which he left in 2006 as a result of the disagreements with the new editor in chief Carlo Rossella,[ in 2008 he became the presenter of ''La Vita in diretta'', a Rai 1 television program broadcast in the afternoon.][ In April 2011 Sposini was affected by a severe ]brain hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...
and retired from showbusiness.[
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References
1952 births
Living people
People from Foligno
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian television presenters
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