AND Match on Tuesday 2 September the hottest challenge of the new season on TV: on the one hand Your business With Stefano De Martino on Rai 1, on the other The wheel of luckwith the conduct of Gerry Scotti on Canale 5. Result? The inaugural week has turned into a small television earthquakewith Gerry Scotti capable of overturning a balance that seemed untouchable and to inflict Rai a series of consecutive defeats.
Gerry Scotti and Stefano De Martino in war for listening
From the debut of September 2 to Sunday 7, Your business He never got the better of it. The first evening marked the heaviest blow: The wheel of luck (which aired from 14 July) has conquered 4,514,000 spectators equal to 24.2% shareleaving de Martino 4,222,000 spectators with 22.6%. In the following days the scissor was reduced but Scotti continued to win.
Gerry Scotti also resists the national team
Also last night, when Your business he did not air to leave room for the national team against Israel, The wheel of luck has raised the competition of the Azzurri to the greatwith 4,315,000 spectators equal to 21.4% share. In short, a hard core that would not be lost the turns of the wheel for nothing in the world. Not even for a football match then.
The provocations of Gerry Scotti. The silence of Stefano De Martino
Gerry Scotti, so far, has not limited himself to winning. On Instagram he launched ironic signals, with one photo that as a musical background has Vasco Rossi’s song, Eh … already (“It seemed the end of the world, but I’m still here”), read by fans like a fool on competition. Live, then, remarked the difference between the two programs: «At the Wheel The merit component is always predominant, it is not enough to pull a coin to win ».
Even a greeting to Carlo Conti (“We greet Carletto who always looks at us at home”) has become a land of discussioninterpreted as an arrow, not too veiled, towards Rai.
Among Gerry Scotti and Stefano De Martino are the relationships no longer stretched?
Even before the direct challenge began, among other things, Gerry had stressed that Stefano is not the heir of Pippo Baudo, as he was said after his death. Among them, in any case, the relationships are good. Or at least, they were.
On the occasion of Scotti’s last birthday, in fact, De Martino sent him a greeting message And together, always via WhatsApp, they joked about the challenge that awaited them. It was August 7th. A month later, something perhaps changed.
Pier Silvio Berlusconi surprisingly in the studio by Gerry Scotti
To underline the importance of the challenge was also Pier Silvio Berlusconi, who visited Gerry, during an episode of the Canale 5 quiz. The CEO of Mediaset defined the results “a miracle”, Adding that the program “reports love for the Italian language in the Italian homes” and that, unlike rival, “it is not only luck but also education and fun”.
Stefano De Martino and the alarm in Rai
For Rai the situation is delicate. Your business For years it has been a fundamental tow for the first evening of Rai 1. Seeing him succumb to The wheel of luckat least for now, is a serious alarm bellabove all because Canale 5 has exceeded the declared objectives of 16-18% share.
It is true that Gerry Scotti has lost some share point compared to 30% at the end of August, And this underlines that the game is not closed at all. But it is equally true that Those who consider Stefano De Martino the Rai King Mida are reviewing his judgment. And perhaps not even he imagined he found himself forced to fight such a demanding battle: sparks are expected throughout autumn.