Tito Stagno Italian Journalist (1930-2022)

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He died on 1 February 2022, at the age of 92.

Tito Stagno (1930-2022) Italian Journalist

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Stagno was one of the most popular italian news hosts between the 1960s and 1970s, and is remembered above all for the unforgettable live broadcast on the Apollo 11 mission, the moon landing which took place between 20 and 21 July 1969. Tito Stagno, the first of eight brothers, moved with his family at a very young age, first to Parma, then to Pola. At the age of 13 he had a very short experience as a film actor, in 1943 he participated in the film by Francesco De Robertis “Marinai senza stelle”, in the role of Murena.



He will appear again on the big screen in 1959 under the direction of Dino Risi in the film “Il vedovo” alongside Alberto Sordi in a very short scene in the role of a television journalist. In 1946, in Cagliari, he completed his classical studies and enrolled in the faculty of medicine. He began working on the Radio in 1949 as a radio commentator, interviewer and documentary maker.In 1954 after leaving the university he won the first national contest for commentators and took part in a specialization course with Furio Colombo, Gianni Vattimo, Umberto Eco.

He was one of the most popular news hosts in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1961 he was the commentator who commented on Jurij Gagarin’s first flight around the Earth. The fervor and accuracy with which he spoke of the enterprise had such consensus as to induce the Rai (Radio Televisione Italiana) executives to entrust him with live broadcasts and news reports on the occasion of the first manned and unmanned space missions. In 1966, on the eve of the Apollo Program, he was sent to the United States of America for a study and refresher trip.



Thus it was that he met the main architects of the conquest of the Moon and was able to see the birth of the machines that would bring man to the satellite. The event that gives him great notoriety takes place in July 1969 and is the unforgettable live broadcast, a television marathon that has entered the collective imagination of most Italians, the live television commentary of the Apollo 11 mission together with Ruggero Orlando. Tito Stagno has also linked his name to other types of television commentaries both from Italy and abroad.

Among the many live commentaries and filmed investigations there is no shortage of those on Sardinia, to which the journalist was particularly attached. As special envoy following the President of the Italian Republic Saragat, he has made commentaries from many countries (Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, South America, Canada, United States of America, Australia).



Meanwhile, he does not forget the filmed investigations. Unforgettable, even as a human experience, were for him the encounters with John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pope John XXIII, the patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople, Dwight Eisenhower, Saddam Hussein and with the three men who landed on the moon. Communication expert, he has given lectures in various universities and private courses for entrepreneurs, business executives, politicians, professionals.

Married to the journalist Edda Lavezzini, from their marriage two daughters were born Brigida and Caterina.

On 15 December 2010 he was a guest of the Sky TG24 journalists to comment live minute by minute on the launch of the Sojuz TMA-20 space mission from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Russia with the Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on board together with the colleagues Dmitrij Jur’evič Kondratiev and Catherine Coleman.