GBR TV

GBR TV was an Italian television station based in Rome. Born as a radio station in 1974, it rose to national prominence in 1978 when, beating even RAI, it was the only media outlet to broadcast live the phases of the discovery of Aldo Moro's body at the end of his 55 days of imprisonment. That legacy made it one of the most important private television stations in the capital and perhaps in Italy, a position consolidated also thanks to the political closeness of the various owners with the parties in government at the time (in particular the Socialist Party in the 1980s), which guaranteed the programming presenters and guests of great notoriety and advertising appeal. With the advent of the Mani pulite investigation of 1992-93 and the arrest of numerous entrepreneurs and financiers close to the Christian Democratic and Socialist areas, the economic resources of the various media subsidized by them also disappeared, including GBR itself, which consequently underwent a drastic downsizing. Declared bankrupt in 1996, it was reborn with mixed success on a satellite platform in 2002 without ever experiencing the success of its first golden decade, and in 2013 it definitively ceased its activity. GBR was responsible for the emergence of figures who subsequently gained notoriety in the large national television networks, such as Franco Alfano in journalism and Milly Carlucci and Gianni Ippoliti in entertainment.