ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Tele VCO 2000, a historical voice of the information born in 1980 by Silvano Zuccari and Mauro Cassani, joined the Altair Group led by the Ossola entrepreneur Paolo Zanghieri. The agreement, signed in recent days between the Zuccari family and the President of the Altair Group, marks an important step in ensuring continuity and growth of what represents one of the main information realities of the province “Azzurra” and outlines development scenarios in terms of widening content, user basin and listening, services offered to the territory. Altair has acquired the totality of the ownership of Tele VCO 2000 srl and thus inserts a new branch of company in an entrepreneurial group, born and raised in Ossola, today active in the funeral, energy, tourism, air services, fitness and food sectors. Present in 14 Italian regions and with pan-European activities as a result of the partnership, launched in 2022, with the French Funecap, the Altair Group employs more than 1000 employees in Italy and continues its growth, marked by passion and strong links with the territory of origin. “It is precisely in the name of this attention and the relationship with our province – explains Paolo Zanghieri – that we first evaluated and then made operational the acquisition of Tele VCO 2000. A reality that represents the pivot of the information system and, I would say, of the public service, of the Verbano Cusio Ossola. The work of information, unique and indispensable, in favor of citizens, enterprises and public administrations carried out by journalists, technicians and collaborators in almost half a century of history must continue and grow, in full respect of the freedom and autonomy of information and the professionalism present. We look forward to the future and we aim at an extension of the content offered, the user basin and the listening to preside over areas and markets certainly interesting. Our goal, already in the short term, is to broaden the services offered in the wider field of integrated communication, to benefit, first, of the companies of the Altair Group and of all the subjects – public and private – of the north of the Region, which produces an economic value of more than 40 billion euros (about 25% of the entire Piedmont) of which 1,5 billion referred to the only sector of tourism”. The decision to put Tele VCO 2000 into its galaxy is dictated by the desire to invest in a reality ready to play, to make its voice heard and to give an essential contribution to the economic and social development of the territory. “The rapid and continuous evolution of the communication sector – it is the thought of the Zuccari Family – today requires a change of pace with business policies, structures and synergies that allow its development. Our priorities were to protect the professionalities that are part of the working group, to ensure that the principles which have always distinguished the work have been respected, not least to guarantee a project that could ensure the growth of an experience in which our family has always believed and invested. Now, after 46 years, a chapter is closed. We are convinced that, thanks to this agreement with the Altair Group of Paolo Zanghieri, a new cycle is opened. A thank you goes to all our collaborators who, in almost 50 years of history, have guaranteed the territory a public service”. Tele VCO was born in 1980 and has anticipated and contributed, for its part, to the creation and growth of the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola that will see the dawns only in the early 1990s. By choice of its founder, he has performed a public service for the local population, with some firm points as a precondition: the guarantee of freedom and independence and the utmost attention to respect for people and ethical values. A project continued after the disappearance of Silvano Zuccari in 1989, thanksthe economic and managerial commitment of his daughter Cristina, of his wife Rosanna, of all the people who, in various ways, made their inexhaustible contribution. Since 1994 studies have moved from the first headquarters in Via Oltrebogna to the municipality of Crevoladossola, in Verbania Fondotoce. In the name, in the brand and in the content Tele VCO has become VCO Azzurra TV, a reality that today is visible throughout Piedmont through the LCN 17 and 617 of the terrestrial digital and a platform that through its web and social channels reaches millions the users who use its contents continuously. “We live times that impose new challenges – continues Paolo Zanghieri – and radical revisions of productive and strategic processes. The world of communication is no exception. We intend to be protagonists of the current changes with investments and business models that support and broaden the information offer and to which complementary and synergistic communication activities are attached to the benefit of the development of VCO and the realities where we intend to be more present”. From now on with the Altair Group and its team, Tele VCO 2000 is ready to face new challenges and, as far as possible, make a further contribution to the creation of ambitious projects. The phrase that accompanies the activities of VCO Azzurra TV is: “We look together at the future”, a tomorrow in which, proud of its past, strong experiences and confident in looking forward, you can continue in the wake of the mandate received in 1980, towards the achievement of new goals and important results.
– Photo VCO Azzurra/Gruppo Altair – (ITALPRESS).
