Sigfrido Ranucci and his farewell to RAI. The "Report" host is moving to La7.

According to LaPresse, a crucial meeting will take place by the end of the month between Urbano Cairo and Sigfrido Ranucci regarding the possible transfer of the Report host and one of his programs to La7 . The publisher has repeatedly expressed great respect for the host. But what is the real situation?

If the move goes through, it will be next season. Ranucci will return to the airwaves with Report on October 28th on Rai3, but multiple sources say his relationship with Viale Mazzini is on the rocks, slowly eroding, and the team is being demolished. A series of problems have made life impossible for the journalist and the team that produces Rai's most important investigative program.

The first issue was the placement and editing of episodes, determined by those who managed the schedule ( Stefano Coletta , ed.) and the failure of the director of Insights, Paolo Corsini, to defend the editing of episodes. Then came the disappointment of not having valorized the editorial staff's expertise, the cutting of reruns. Ranucci, who remained one of the few in-house hosts at Rai, had protested in defense of Report at the presentation of the schedule in Naples. The future is yet to be written.

Apparently, Cairo would instead offer a comprehensive publishing project, including use in other programs, books, and instant books—a "factory" project. An ambitious plan, but still in development and with all the inherent uncertainties. La7, with its offering, is certainly very strong in terms of information. "If RAI were to truly lose Sigfrido Ranucci, we would be faced with a devastating signal: the progressive dismantling of public service broadcasting and the total adaptation of information to the wishes of the Meloni government. It would confirm a decline in which professionalism and independence are being sacrificed on the altar of political control," commented Barbara Floridia, president of the RAI Oversight Commission. "We cannot ignore the suffocating climate in which Ranucci and his editorial staff have been forced to work over the past two years: constant attacks from ministers and government officials, no words of defense from Rai's top brass, total institutional silence in the face of pressure," he continues. "In fact, probably unique in the world, an entire political party, Fratelli d'Italia, has filed a lawsuit against the program. But above all, in recent years we have witnessed a series of actions designed only to put a spoke in Ranucci's wheels and his team's wheels: from reducing the number of episodes to cutting reruns, from delays in issuing program registrations to counter-programming by those in charge of programming, all the way to disciplinary warnings and the issue of stabilizing temporary workers who will be sent to regional offices, thus emptying editorial offices like Report . All this, while the program continued to generate extremely high ratings, confirming itself not only as a flagship of Rai's investigative journalism, but also as one of the most authoritative and credible references in the entire Italian media landscape." Councilor Roberto Natale also raised the alarm: "The public service has been, and must continue to be, Sigfrido Ranucci's home for many years. It is unthinkable that RAI news should do without a service appreciated by millions of citizens, one that upholds—even in a very difficult context and under too many political attacks—the finest tradition of investigative journalism. I am certain that Sigfrido, who has always been a supporter of public service, even before becoming its employee, will not want to lower the banner of a lifetime and give victory to those who would like a duller and weaker RAI." And in a statement, the Tg3 editorial board appeals to the company to enable Ranucci and his editorial staff to perform at their best. "The journalists of Tg3," the document reads, "are concerned about Sigfrido Ranucci's possible departure from Rai. This would be yet another very serious example of the impoverishment of our company and, in particular, of our network, whose identity has already been significantly eroded in recent years. We demand that the company do everything possible to provide our colleague and his team with the best possible working conditions, safeguarding spaces of freedom and independence, essential elements of the country's democratic life."