Oscar Mammì, godfather of the first organic law on the radio and television broadcasting, died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 90. He was born in Rome, graduated in economics and business studies and was employed in a bank where he started to get passionate about politics. He joined the Republican Party and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for twenty-five years, from 1968 to 1992: he was Minister during the Years of Lead and the five-party coalition government. In 1990 as Minister of Communications, he presented a controversial bill reorganizing the broadcasting sector which was booming and it declared the division between public TV and private TV (the duopoly of Rai and Mediaset). With the outbreak of Mani Pulite investigations, he retired from the Parliament and withdrew from public life even if he allowed himself some public outings: he debuted as an actor in the Rai3 series Walter e Giada. I migliori anni della nostra vita, freely based on the novel The Betrothed.
Oscar Mammì, godfather of the first organic law on the broadcasting sector, dies.
