This is a list of Italian television related events from 1979. Events RAI 22 February. Announcement of the sentence in the Catanzaro trial, for the Piazza Fontana bombing. The hearings have been, for the first time, integrally shoot by the RAI cameras. From 25 September, a selection in five episodes of the proceedings is aired, showing to the public the embarrassed and reticent depositions of politicians, such as Giulio Andreotti and Mariano Rumor. 26 April. The documentary Trial for rape, realized by a feminist collective, shocks the public opinion, showing the victim of a ravishment humiliated and criminalized by the defense attorneys. 15 December. The adolescent actress Fabiana Udenio announces the beginning of RETE 3 broadcasting. This is the schedule of the first day. Rete 3 is, in the intents, focused on the local realities, with programs and news realized by the RAI regional offices; however, for years it will be a “ghost channel”, lacking of means and ignored by the public. Private channels In 1979, the Italian private televisions have a breakthrough: the most active buy massively films and American telefilms, hire RAI stars as Mike Bongiorno and Pippo Baudo and begin to broadcast in National scope (the rule forcing them to operate only locally is bypassed, airing on several local stations the same show, prerecorded on videotape). Particularly dynamic is the Silvio Berlusconi’s Telemilano 58. New televisions (with the date of the first airing) 4 March: TV Port, syndication of 90 local channels, specialized in American film and telefilm. 19 June: Antenna Sicilia, owned by the newspaper editor Mario Cancio Sanfilippo, art director Pippo Baudo July: Rete televisiva Italiana, owned by Il Messaggero's editor Carlo Perrone. 2 July : Compagnia televisioni Associate; syndication of 20 local channels. Autunni : TV Parma 8 September. GPE-Telemond, by Arnoldo Mondadori editore, later fused with Rete televisiva Italiana in Rete 4. The Berlusconi's ascent 30 January: Silvio Berlusconi founds Rete Italia, society for the marketing of TV shows. The newborn society gets right away a big deal, buoying 325 movies from Titanus for 2 billion liras. 13 September : Birth of Publitalia, the Berlusconi's advertising media agency. December. Telemilano 58, till then visible only in Milan, extends its signal to the whole Lombardy. 5 December. Mike Bongiorno debuts on Silvio Berlusconi's Telemilano 58 with the game show The dreams in the weaver; he's the first TV star who leaves RAI to work