Lucio Spiga, journalist and writer, scholar of traditions and microhistory, has died. Politeness, kindness, savoir faire are his distinctive traits. Originally from Quartucciu, he was one of the pioneers of private broadcasting in Sardinia with Videolina, for which he directed the news (Tgs, Sardinian news) at the end of the seventies of the last century.
He took over from the first director Patrizio Mulas, as Carlo Figari recalls on the site dedicated to the history of information on the island. Spiga, an employee and public relations officer of Sip (the telephone company), signed the newspaper and planned, with a team that was ahead of its time, the first television commentary of Sant'Efisio in 1976. The years in which the private broadcasting station was built. Videolina in that season, was on the front line in Italy with great organizational fervor and happy intuitions.
The books
Very close to Efisio Corrias, leading figure of the DC in Sardinia, senator and president of the Region. And the journalist who wanted to interview the President, no longer in the political arena, had to turn to Lucio Spiga who generously offered his mediation always achieving the result. In recent years he has dedicated himself to research. He leaves many books dedicated to his Quartucciu, to the Popes of the Jubilees, to the presence of the Police on the island, to the presidents of the Region, to the silk entrepreneur Francesca Sanna Sulis which, with great passion and love for research, he appropriately rediscovered.
