1980 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1980.

Notwithstanding a series of legal battles brought by RAI to maintain the private channels in the local scope, with sentences of the tribunals often contradictory, the year sees the birth of the two first Italian national networks: the Angelo Rizzoli's Prima Rete Indipendente and the Silvio Berlusconi's Canale 5.

At the end of the year, there are 370 channels affiliated to a network, against 266 independent ones.

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