Paolo Vasile (born 1953) is an Italian businessman and film and television producer. He served as the

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of Gestevisión Telecinco/Mediaset España from 1999 to 2022.

Biography

Born in

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in 1953, Vasile was the last of four siblings, son to producer, screenwriter, director, author and critic

Turi Vasile Turi Vasile (22 March 1922 - 1 September 2009) was an Italian producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film critic and author. Life and career Born in Messina, Sicily, Vasile started working as a playwright and a theatre director in the e ...

and Silvana Gualdi. He studied Anthropology and worked as film producer for ten years. An acquaintance of media tycoon

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since the early 1980s, Vasile switched cinema for television, reportedly encouraged by his wife Ana Lisa. He became deputy director general of

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and responsible for the production facilities of the company in Rome. Berlusconi sent him to

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in 1998 in order to get

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back on track, becoming Berlusconi's right-hand man in Spain. After Vasile was appointed

of Gestevisión Telecinco (later Mediaset España) on 30 March 1999, Telecinco consolidated as the leading TV channel in Spain in terms of viewership. He led the company when it went public in 2004 and during the merging deal agreement with PRISA. He has been criticised for the rise of the so-called ' ("trash TV") in Spain. In 2022, amid consistently decreasing viewership figures, he was reportedly fired from his position as CEO of Mediaset España.

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