Luciano Rispoli (12 July 1932 – 26 October 2016) was an Italian television and radio writer and presenter.
Born in
Reggio Calabria
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, the son of a colonel, Rispoli moved to Rome to study law at the
Sapienza University
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, but before graduating, he passed an audition by Vittorio Veltroni to join the newly created
RAI in 1954.
A founding father of Italian public television, he conceived and hosted the first TV talk show ever broadcast in Italy - ''L'ospite delle 2'' in 1975 - while his ''Pranzo in TV'' was the first Italian dinner talk, in 1983.
In 1960, he debuted as radio presenter with the program ''La radio per le scuole''.
Starting from the 1960s, Rispoli held several executive positions on radio and television, and contributed to create popular radio programs such as ''Bandiera Gialla'', ''Chiamate Roma 3131'', ''La Corrida''.
From the 1970s on, he was gradually more active as a TV presenter, getting a personal success as host and author of a quiz show about Italian language, ''Parola mia'' (1985–88).
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In 1991 Rispoli left RAI and moved to
Telemontecarlo
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, where he hosted the music show ''La più bella sei tu'' (1991-2) and ''Tappeto volante'', a long-running talk show broadcast on Telemontecarlo between 1993 and 2000, and later moved to other networks until 2009.
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1932 births
2016 deaths
People from Reggio Calabria
Italian television presenters
Italian television writers
Male television writers
Italian radio presenters
Italian radio writers
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Italian male screenwriters