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Enzo Tortora (November 30, 1928 – May 18, 1988) was an Italian TV host on national RAI television, who was convicted of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking in 1985, and sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was acquitted of all charges on appeal in 1986. ==Early career== Enzo Tortora was born in Genoa. After taking a degree in journalism in his native city, he worked in theatre with Paolo Villaggio before joining the RAI – Italy's state radio and television corporation – as a radio announcer. In 1956, he first appeared on television and presented programmes such as ''Domenica Sportiva'' and ''Giochi senza frontiere''. In 1969, he was fired by RAI when he described the company's managers as a group of boy scouts trying to pilot a supersonic jet plane unsuccessfully. Subsequently, he worked for several private TV stations and various newspapers, before returning to RAI in 1977.〔(Enzo Tortora: When justice miscarries ), The Florentine, October 30, 2008〕 During the seventies Enzo Tortora was the co-founder of Telebiella the first italian free tv station that broke the state monopoly fo tv broadcasting and later of telealtomilanese and Antenna 3 Lombardia. In 1977, Tortora started to present a programme called ''Portobello'', which attracted an audience of up to 26 million people every Friday night, far outperforming any other programme. Named after the Portobello Road market in London, the show allowed the audience, via telephone from home, to buy or sell things, present ideas or inventions, or look for a partner or someone they had not seen for years. The challenge for those participating in the studio was to get Portobello, the green parrot and mascot of the show, to say his name. He rarely did.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enzo Tortora」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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