BLOB, which started on April 13th of 1989, is aired five times a week at 8 p.m., and lasts 15 or 20 minutes. Besides that there are special weeks, special programs with specific themes and a "Blob Update" at the end of the year. The number of viewers fluctuates between 1/2 and 3 million (a viewing quota from 6 to 12%). Its management is headed by Enrico Ghezzi and Mario Giusti.
BLOB has, most likely, neither a "genealogy" nor a "moral"..., BLOB means FRAGMENT. It’s a CRUDDY CORNER, a SPECK IN THE EYE. (One Nobel Prize-win­ ning scientist calls BLOB the point on the retina where colors form in the eye.) BLOB reminds us of hamburgers, of dripping sauces ... of endless boiling, and even of Blob-makers who, in the meanti­ me, must be slightly overcooked themselves. BLOB materializes as a partially- solid, cellular and clump-like being in the flood of SCHEGGE (FRAGMENTS) and GOCCE (DROPS). Since the mid-eighties it has reached Italian television. BLOB is the TV-height of an archeological undertaking that turns the visual present in "findings". The most archaic footage becomes a moment in present-day language. Even the editing of BLOB is aired "live". BLOB is never repeated, re-edited or corrected. BLOB, which has no time for "masks", is always in a rush to meet the broadcast-deadline. No one (not us anyway) ever sees and changes it before a broadcast. BLOB -as a manner that reduces everything - intensifies the usual uselessness of TV viewers. While BLOB points to the nuances of separate televised moments it also explains an invisible and monstrous uniformity. Enrico Ghezzi