Aldo Biscardi

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Aldo Biscardi, (Larino, 26 October 1930) is an Italian football TV presenter, best known for conducting the show Il Processo di Biscardi (The Monday Trial).

A native of Larino, in the province of Campobasso, he graduated in Law from the University of Naples. In 1952 he began working on the daily Neapolitan newspaper, Il Mattino. In 1956 he became the sports editor of the Rome sport paper PCI Paese Sera, of which he would later become editor-in-chief.

In 1979 he began his television career, taking charge of Raitre sporting broadcasts and in 1980 was presenting programmes on a range of channels, gaining poularity for his down-to-earth style of chatting and for his lingusitic gaffes and puns.

In 1980, Biscardi launched his RaiTre creation, Il Processo del Lunedì. In the first series, Enrico Ameri presented the show followed by Marino Bartoletti, with Biscardi taking the backseat role of editor.

In 1993, Biscardi moved to Tele+ and took on the range of sports offered by that channel, re-introducing the Il Processo di Biscardi programme with the same formula and name, followed, in 1996, by another move to Telemontecarlo. His flagship progamme would continue on the channel before it became, from 2001, La7.

In 2005, with the birth of the digital terrestrial channel La7, Biscardi became director of sport of La7 and director of a channel of digital terrestrial called La7 Sport which was founded in August 2005 but then folded in April 2007.