Mediaset
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| Type | Public (BIT: MS) |
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| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters |  Milan, Italy |
| Key people | Fedele Confalonieri, Chairman Giuliano Adreani, CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Vice Chairman |
| Industry | Broadcasting & Cable TV |
| Products | TV programs - News |
| Revenue | ▲ € 3,941.6 million EUR (2004) |
| Employees | 5.662 (2004) |
| Website | www.mediaset.it |
Mediaset is the Italian biggest private television (italian: "televisione privata"), owned and controlled by the premier Silvio Berlusconi and competing against the public television controlled by parliament: Rai (Radio Televisione Italiana), first television company in the country. The third major television company is Sky Italia.
Mediaset headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. The network was founded by Silvio Berlusconi, and today it is controlled by his family through Fininvest which has as major shareholder Silvio Berlusconi himself.
Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, that first started showing TeleMilano (known now as Canale 5).
Due to their close proximity, Croatia, Malta, San Marino and Slovenia also receive broadcasts.
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[edit] National Channels
Mediaset controls four free to air terrestrial channels (three in Italy and one in Spain):
[edit] Digital Terrestrial Television Channels
[edit] Italy
- Boing, childen televisione (51% Mediaset, 49% Turner Broadcasting System)
- Mediashopping, Shopping channel
- Iris, Movie channel.
- Mediaset Premium, Pay-per-view TV service
[edit] Spain
- FDF Telecinco, Devoted to TV series and films
- Telecinco 2, Dedicated to sports and reality shows
- Cincoshop, A shopping channel
[edit] Satellite Channels
- Mediashopping, Free To Air
- Mediaset Plus, Pay tv
Until 31 December 2005, there were four other encrypted satellite channels owned by Mediaset on SKY Italia: Duel TV, Happy Channel, IT Italia Teen Television, and MT Channel.
[edit] Endemol
Since 2007 Mediaset controls 75% of Dutch television production company Endemol.
[edit] Europa 7 lawsuit
In January 2008, the European Court of Justice ruled that the TV frequencies used by Mediaset to broadcast Rete 4 were shared out unfairly. They should have been given to Europa 7, a competitor channel, the judges maintain, and Rete 4 should be broadcasted via satellite instead. Although the Italian Council of State, the highest court on administrative matters, has confirmed that the Italian government should abide by this European ruling, Rete 4 continues its operation on analog frequencies and on DVB-T. [1]
[edit] Google lawsuit
In 30 July 2008, Mediaset filed a lawsuit against Google for €500 million (US$779 million dollars) with the charges of copyright infringement. The company stated that 325 hours worth of material was uploaded to YouTube and the result was the loss of 315,672 viewing days and ad revenue.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ Reuters. Italy court rejects Mediaset appeal to EU ruling. [1]
- ^ Stephen Lawson. Italian Media Company Sues YouTube. New York Times. 30 July 2008
- ^ Giada Zampano and Liam Moloney. UPDATE: Mediaset Files EUR500 Million Suit Vs Google's YouTube. CNN. Retrieved 2008-09-13
[edit] External links
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