But the increase in expenses does not correspond to an increase in audience which instead – net of the week of Sanremo which last year was in March and therefore is not comparable – signals from November to today a downward trend in the 8pm edition compared to one year ago. While the protest grows in the newsrooms of the other news broadcasters who feel discriminated against. The drop in ratings for Tg2 by confirmed Gennaro Sangiuliano is also worrying. The news of the right-center is falling to levels never reached before: on Friday 18 February it even went below 5 percent. While the day before it was the turn of Tg2 Post, the in-depth analysis that follows the evening edition at 20.30, to fall below the psychological threshold of 3 percent, to be exact only 2.9. On the seventh floor of Viale Mazzini they are trying to run for cover by changing the tow, or the program that precedes the prime time news. Instead of the classic and loyal TV series, we think of a game show or in any case a “Jokes” style program. Will it be enough to revive the glorious news of Andrea Barbato and Antonio Ghirelli or will more drastic interventions be needed?