Nichi Grauso, the publisher, visionary entrepreneur, pioneer of free radios, then television, and finally the internet, died at the age of 76. Nicola, also known as "Nichi," embarked on his initial adventure at Radiolina, a radio station in Cagliari founded on June 19, 1975. Through numerous court rulings, Grauso opened the airwaves to free radio stations and then, with the launch of Videolina, a “twin” TV channel, in 1975, also paved the way for television stations, breaking RAI’s monopoly. Grauso took over the newspaper l'Unione Sarda and profoundly renewed the most significant newspaper on the island, riding the tide of success of his first creations. In 1991, he acquired a daily newspaper in Warsaw and a series of broadcasters to establish the TV network Polonia1. In 1993, he sensed the potential of the internet and launched the online version of the Unione Sarda, the first European newspaper on the web, second only to the Boston Globe. He also established its "provider," Video On Line, which provided free access to the then-nascent web through a toll-free number. Grauso and VoL capture one-third of Italian "internet users" by providing email and web access. In 1998, he and Vittorio Sgarbi violated the air embargo by flying to Tripoli to intervene with local authorities who had been detaining a Sardinian technician, Marcello Sarritzu, and his wife for months. Three months later, both were released. On April 3, 2000, again with Sgarbi and Father Jean Marie Benjamin, he violated the Iraqi no-fly zone and landed in Baghdad to raise public awareness about the country’s severe humanitarian conditions.