The board of State broadcaster RAI on Thursday approved Director General Campo Dall'Orto's nominations for the new heads of the TG2 and TG3 news services on the RAI2 and RAI3 channels, ANSA sources said. As a result Ida Colucci takes over TG2 in the place of Marcello Masi and Luca Mazzà replaces Bianca Berlinguer at TG3. Andrea Montanari has been put in charge of Gr-Radio1, Nicoletta Manzione is new head of RAI Parlamento.
Mario Orfeo stays at the helm of RAI1's TG1 and Vincenzo Morgante stays on at the TGR regional news service Six board members voted in favour of the appointments, three against. The appointments are controversial. Opposition parties argue that Premier Matteo Renzi's government is trying to muffle dissent ahead of this autumn's referendum on its package to overhaul Italy's political machinery.
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