''TG4'' (''TeleGiornale 4'') is the brand for Italian TV channel of

Mediaset Mediaset Italia S.p.A., also known as Mediaset, is an Italian-based mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope. Founded in 1987 by forme ...

network

Rete 4 Rete 4 (in English Network 4) is an Italian free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset Italia and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. Presently the director is Sebastiano Lombardi. Programs TV Programmes (currently) Rete 4's streng ...

news program News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...

mes. They are shown domestically on

several times throughout the day. Its editor-in-chief is Rosanna Ragusa.

Programme format

had a news program from its inception until 1984 and was called '' Gli Speciali Di Rete 4''. However, in

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast As ...

, '' Rete 4 Ultimissima'' was established. The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader. Most items will be made up of reports but may preceded or followed by a

correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locat ...

reporting live from the scene of the report.

Daily programme and presenters

* 11:55 am edition (30 minutes): Luca Rigoni, Stefano Messina, Viviana Guglielmi. * 07:00 pm edition (50 minutes): Giuseppe Brindisi, Stefania Cavallaro. * 01:10 am edition (20 minutes): nobody (it is a collection of reports about main news of the past day). * 06:00 am edition (20 minutes): nobody (it is a collection of reports about main news of the past day).

Editor-in-chief

* July 1991–June 1992: Edvige Bernasconi * June 1992–March 2012:

Emilio Fede Emilio Fede (born 24 June 1931) is an Italian anchorman, journalist and writer. He has been the director of '' TG1'' (from 1981 to 1982), a news programme on Raiuno, ''Studio Aperto'' (from 1991 to 1992), a news programme on Italia 1, and ''TG4'' ...

* March 2012–January 2014:

Giovanni Toti Giovanni Toti (born 7 September 1968) is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria since June 2015. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election. Biography Born ...

* January 2014–May 2018:

Mario Giordano Mario Giordano (born 19 June 1966) is an Italian journalist and writer. He is known to be one of the most contentious journalists in the Italian right-wing politics sector, and for various disciplinary sanctions against him in the context of hi ...

* May–August 2018, February–June 2019: Rosanna Ragusa * August 2018-February 2019: Gerardo Greco *June 2019-today: Andrea Pucci

External links

Official Website
1992 Italian television series debuts Italian television news shows Mass media in Rome R.T.I. - Mediaset Rete 4 original programming {{italy-tv-prog-stub