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Italian TV viewers urged, just turn off
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It has the look of something that could catch on, and organisers claim
it already has. Italy's mighty television networks are today facing
their first nation-wide TV viewers' strike. Under the uncompromising
slogan "Television is Nasty and Bad", it aims to tempt at least 400,000
people away from primetime weekend viewing. The strike's logo is made up
of the multi-coloured vertical bars shown by an untuned set. "We want to
say to people that there are better ways of spending their free time
than to stay home staring at television," said Anna Spreafico, a
spokeswoman for Esterni, the Milan cultural association behind the
initiative. The organisers have negotiated discounts with museums,
galleries, theatres, bars and restaurants for anyone who turns up
between Friday and Sunday carrying a TV remote control, the symbol of
mindless telly addiction. This year it hopes the strike will be felt as
far away as Sicily. In Rome, the convenors have joined forces with a
council-backed organisation that already offers discounts to young
people for a range of cultural activities, from visits to theatres to
guided tours of the Colosseum. The FAI, Italy's equivalent of the
National Trust, is offering zapper-bearers cut-price entry to stately
homes and parks from the foothills of the Alps to the straits of
Messina.
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It has the look of something that could catch on, and organisers claim
it already has. Italy's mighty television networks are today facing
their first nation-wide TV viewers' strike. Under the uncompromising
slogan "Television is Nasty and Bad", it aims to tempt at least 400,000
people away from primetime weekend viewing. The strike's logo is made up
of the multi-coloured vertical bars shown by an untuned set. "We want to
say to people that there are better ways of spending their free time
than to stay home staring at television," said Anna Spreafico, a
spokeswoman for Esterni, the Milan cultural association behind the
initiative. The organisers have negotiated discounts with museums,
galleries, theatres, bars and restaurants for anyone who turns up
between Friday and Sunday carrying a TV remote control, the symbol of
mindless telly addiction. This year it hopes the strike will be felt as
far away as Sicily. In Rome, the convenors have joined forces with a
council-backed organisation that already offers discounts to young
people for a range of cultural activities, from visits to theatres to
guided tours of the Colosseum. The FAI, Italy's equivalent of the
National Trust, is offering zapper-bearers cut-price entry to stately
homes and parks from the foothills of the Alps to the straits of
Messina.