The Italian media entrepreneur Nicola Grauso, the creator of the Polonia TV network, was died.

The Italian agency reminded that Grauso was one of the pioneers of the Internet media in Italy.

He began his activity in 1975 by establishing one of the first private Italian radio stations – radiolin. Then he entered the television market creating a sender called Videolina. In the following years he also got involved in the printed press by buying the local daily “L'UNIONE SARDA”, which as one of the first in the world had its internet version. He was the owner of this newspaper until 1999.

Then he founded the Internet Dziennik Unionsard.it.

It was also active on the Polish media market. At the beginning of the 1990s, he bought “Życie Warszawy” and created the TV Polonia 1 network, a group of local stations.

He withdrew from Poland when it was decided that national frequencies licenses would be distributed to local, and the National Broadcasting Council did not grant the nationwide concession of the TV Polonia 1.

Grauso was also involved in local political activity in his hometown of Cagliari in Sardinia.