Striscia la Notizia returns to the attack of Affari tuoi, the pre-evening program (same time slot as Striscia) hosted this year by Stefano De Martino.
The satirical news program, in a report by correspondent Rajae Bezzaz, reveals the existence of a fixed evening budget, the same one that Max Giusti, host of the Rai1 program from 2008 to 2013, had talked about in the Tintoria podcast last September 24. According to Giusti , it was absolutely necessary to stay within an average budget of 33 thousand euros per episode .
A theory denied by the Doctor, the author of the program Pasquale Romano, who in an interview with Verità had said: «The variables are infinite and therefore it has a randomness that no game has».
Striscia, however, has delved deeper and discovered, with calculations in hand, that the fixed budget does in fact exist. And not only in the years of Max Giusti, but also of Flavio Insinna when the average win was around 36 thousand euros per episode for four consecutive editions between 2013 and 2017. «This is anything but a random game, where luck is the master - is the accusation of Striscia -. Affari Tuoi gives out every evening the winnings that allow it to respect the budget and, to achieve this goal, the "random" dynamics are therefore controlled». Even with De Martino, says Striscia, the game does not exceed 30 thousand euros in average winnings.
Already in November, Antonio Ricci, involving a statistics expert, Vincenzo Mauro, a professor at the University of Macerata, had insinuated the doubt of “suspicious” winnings. «It is part of the nature of Striscia. Raising doubts is legitimate – De Martino had responded -. The real point is to demonstrate things and I do not believe that they lack the tools, if there really were extremes. The competition with the program dates back to 2003 ».
(Online Union)