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. It has been produced in collaboration with

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until 2006, when the program switched to Videonews. From September 1996 until June 2006, it was a daily show, initially hosted by the journalist

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and the replaced by Benedetta Corbi and Giuseppe Brindisi and after by

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. From September 2006, it became a weekly show hosted by

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and entirely dedicated to

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and interviews.

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