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ByoBlu
Country Italy
Broadcast areaItaly (via digital terrestrial television)
Worldwide (via internet)
HeadquartersVia Castellammare 14, 20157 Milan (Italy)
Programming
Language(s)Italian
Picture format16:9 SDTV
History
Launched2021, April 25
FounderClaudio Messora
Links
Websitewww.byoblu.com
Availability
Terrestrial
DigitalLCN 262
Tivùsat462
Sky816
Streaming media
LIVE Streamhttps://www.byoblu.com/diretta-tv/

Byoblu is an Italian television station, based in Milan, which broadcasts on digital terrestrial channel 262, as well as live-streaming on the official website.[1]

Initially born as a blog on the Internet, which is in the past known for hosting and spreading alternative hypothesis and various theories,[2][3] Is a free channel, and it is based exclusively on the financial support of free donations from private citizens.[4][5]

History and diffusion[edit]

Founded in 2007 as a website and YouTube channel by Claudio Messora, former musician and communication consultant of the Movimento 5 Stelle,[6][7][8] dedicated to so-called alternative information issues,[9] Byoblu was transformed into a company in 2019, into a regional newspaper and broadcaster in 2020, which went national in April 2021.[6]

This last decision was taken following a sudden closure and deletion of his videos and contents from the YouTube platform that hosted him, due to accusations of scientific disinformation on the topic of COVID-19.[10][11] Such channel had approximately half a million of registered users,[12] to whom its founder then asked donations to be able to raise a sufficient amount to purchase a digital terrestrial channel, visible throughout the Italian territory.[4][10]

Since then, Byoblu continues to be supported by the offers of voluntary contributors,[13] stating that independence from financial giants can guarantee autonomy and freedom of information.[14]

Byoblu is also a publishing house, which has published successful essays, including Heresia by Massimo Citro Della Riva,[15][16][17] and in 2022 it also became a radio broadcaster.[6] They also published some documentaries such as Io no, Capitano.[18][19][20]

Byoblu has an online store with logistics and external warehouses that combine user purchases into a single shipping cost. The companies that offer their products in the online shop are the same ones that finance the short advertising breaks, which are broadcast by the television channel.[21]

Guests and schedule[edit]

The televiewers themselves are invited to participate in the creation of the Byoblu broadcast programming, which includes newscasts, information programs on current affairs, culture, economics, history, science, spirituality, through proposals and suggestions,[22] as for example in the program "È l'Ora della Verità".[23]

Various in-depth topics are focused in particular on medicine and politics, with the aim of giving voice to people, events and news deemed underrepresented by the official or so-called mainstream media,[24] also giving space to theses classified in general as anti-establishment.[17]

Among the various journalists, intellectuals and experts who collaborate with the broadcaster, as authors of services and features, there are Francesco Borgonovo, host of the talk show "1984: escape plan", Fulvio Grimaldi, Mario Adinolfi, Diego Fusaro, Alessandro Meluzzi, Ermanno Bencivenga; other guests are Massimo Mazzucco, Ugo Mattei, Robert W. Malone, the silent Master Mason Mauro Biglino[25] and others.[26][27]

Web contents are released under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

Byoblu declares to act with media and religious pluralism.[28]

The TV intends to set up an association, which will have its own personal group of self-managed regional television networks, where members will be able to create the schedule and have a showcase for free and participatory discussion. Furthermore, the association will enter the so-called governance of the national television, with an annual general meeting in which the editorial line, the schedule and investment orientation will be discussed.[29]

Developments[edit]

Revenue increased from 422 keuros in 2020 to 3.5 millions in 2022. In December 2023 Messora planned to transform Byoblu into a joint-stock company.[30][31]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Diretta TV - ByoBlu".
  2. ^ Juanne Pili (21 September 2022). "Le teorie del complotto sull'alluvione delle Marche, tra scie chimiche e il volo Nato". Open (in Italian).
  3. ^ "Google ha tolto la pubblicità al blog Byoblu". il Post (in Italian). 28 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b Fabio Dragoni (1 April 2021). "Youtube epura Byoblu di Messora. E gli utenti gli comprano un canale tv". La Verità (in Italian).
  5. ^ "VIAGGIO DENTRO BYOBLU: LA CASA EDITRICE". Informazione - Notizie a Confronto (in Italian). 2023-11-29. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  6. ^ a b c "Claudio Messora" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior.
  7. ^ Barba, Mario (2020-07-15). "Chi è Claudio Messora: biografia e curiosità del responsabile di byoblu". NonSolo.TV (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  8. ^ "ByoBlu - Senigallia Notizie - 05/01/2024 - 60019.it: quotidiano on-line per vivere Senigallia e il territorio". Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  9. ^ Matteo Pucciarelli (3 June 2020). "Complotti, trame, sospetti. Messora e il sogno di Byoblu come tv antisistema". La Repubblica (in Italian).
  10. ^ a b Matteo Pucciarelli (31 March 2021). "Youtube chiude Byoblu. Il fondatore Messora lancia il crowdfunding: "Compriamo un canale sul digitale"". La Repubblica (in Italian).
  11. ^ Eleonora Bianchini (1 April 2021). "Byoblu, canale chiuso da YouTube". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian).
  12. ^ F.Q. (30 March 2021). "ByoBlu, YouTube chiude l'account di Claudio Messora. "Ora compriamo un canale sul digitale terrestre"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian).
  13. ^ Claudio Messora (31 May 2022). "La verità su chi c'è dietro a Byoblu". Byoblu.
  14. ^ «Crediamo che l'informazione sia un servizio, crediamo che debba restare indipendente, crediamo che questo significhi libertà», from the "Official Website" (in Italian).
  15. ^ "La "bibbia" negazionista tra i bestseller". La Repubblica (in Italian). 1 September 2021.
  16. ^ Della Riva, Massimo Citro (2021). Eresia. Milan: Byoblu. ISBN 978-88-945482-5-9.
  17. ^ a b Marianna Rizzini (4 September 2021). "Byoblu, la corazzata della controinformazione". Il Foglio (in Italian).
  18. ^ ASI, Redazione (2023-12-12). "Il nuovo  docu – Film di Severgnini su BYOBLU smentisce Garrone: traffico di esseri umani dietro immigrazione irregolare". Agenzia Stampa Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  19. ^ ""Io, no capitano". Il nuovo documentario di Michelangelo Severgnini su Byoblu". www.lantidiplomatico.it (in Italian). 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  20. ^ ""Io No, Capitano!": il nuovo docufilm di Severgnini su Byoblu smentisce Garrone". www.primapaginanews.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  21. ^ "Terms and conditions".
  22. ^ "La Tv dei cittadini". Byoblu (in Italian).
  23. ^ "È l'Ora della Verità" (in Italian).
  24. ^ Claudio Messora: "ByoBlu cerca di dare voce a chi non ne ha" (in Italian). La 7. 3 October 2021.
  25. ^ "Archives of Mauro Biglino". Archived from the original on December 7, 2023.
  26. ^ "I programmi di Byoblu" (in Italian).
  27. ^ Note that there is also Luca Funiciello, the Anti-Catholic author of the Italian book titled Avrai altro Dio.
  28. ^ "Editorial policy" (in Italian).
  29. ^ "Association United Citizens for the Freedom of Thought and the Media Pluralismo" (in Italian).
  30. ^ Andrea Bianchini. "Il nuovo corso del complottismo: l'ora dei profitti dopo le fake news" (in Italian). Il Giornale.
  31. ^ "ByoBlu, la tv dei complottisti ora entra nel "sistema": nel 2024 pronta a sbarcare in borsa". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2023-12-21. Retrieved 2024-01-05.

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