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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi
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For those who don't follow international broadcasting, Berlusconi was the man who broke the RAI TV monopoly, at one point having all 3 national commercial networks in Italy.
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Mediaset S.p.A.
Mediaset S.p.A. (formerly known as Mediaset Italia S.p.A.) is an Italian mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope (the original iteration of Mediaset S.p.A., a.k.a. the Mediaset Group), which is majority-owned by Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group. Stemming from a business founded in 1987 by entrepreneur and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset competes primarily against the public broadcaster RAI, the privately owned La7 and (through Sky Group Limited) Comcast's Sky Italia.
Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, where broadcasts of local station TeleMilano (now airing nationally as Mediaset's Canale 5) began in 1978. After merging with various local broadcaster to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno Monzese, where the infrastructure of the former Telealtomilanese was present. The company currently has three main television production centres, in Milan (Segrate, Cologno Monzese) and Rome.[1]
In the 1980s, Berlusconi's company Fininvest was contracted to operate TV Koper-Capodistria, a TV station which was intended to serve Italian-speaking audiences in the region of Istria, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, but was widely available in Italy through cable systems. Under Fininvest's control, the station mainly operated as a sports channel. This arrangement ended in 1990.[3][4]
In 1990, Silvio Berlusconi Communications [it] entered into a partnership with DIC Enterprises and having SBC subsidiary Reteitalia S.p.A. [it] and Spanish TV channel Telecinco (which SBC held a stake) to co-produce shows,[5] a relationship that lasted until 1994.
Mediaset S.p.A.
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 Mediaset headquarters in Cologno Monzese (Milan) | |
| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 10 February 1980; 43 years ago (Current iteration: 2019) |
| Founder | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Headquarters | Cologno Monzese, Milan, Italy |
| Key people | Pier Silvio Berlusconi CEO |
| Products | Free-to-air and subscription television broadcasting Radio Television Production |
| Revenue |
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| Net income |
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| Owner | Fininvest |
| Number of employees |
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| Parent | MFE - MediaForEurope |
| Website | www.mediaset.it |
Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, where broadcasts of local station TeleMilano (now airing nationally as Mediaset's Canale 5) began in 1978. After merging with various local broadcaster to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno Monzese, where the infrastructure of the former Telealtomilanese was present. The company currently has three main television production centres, in Milan (Segrate, Cologno Monzese) and Rome.[1]
History[edit]
Beginnings in late 70s[edit]
Silvio Berlusconi's involvement in television industry began in 1978, with Telemilano, a local Milan-based broadcaster that became Canale 5 two years later and began broadcasting nationally. Canale 5 was subsequently joined by Italia 1 (bought from the publishing group Rusconi in 1982) and Rete 4 (acquired from Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 1984). Television area was called RTI and became established with three national analogue networks, supported by an advertising sales company, Publitalia '80, that exclusively collects advertising for all three channels, and two other companies, Videotime, that manages TV technology and production activities, and Elettronica Industriale that guarantees signal distribution through the management of the broadcasting infrastructure. In 1987, it bought out Italian's leading home video distributor Domovideo, in a seesaw contest with Vincenzo Romangoli.[2]In the 1980s, Berlusconi's company Fininvest was contracted to operate TV Koper-Capodistria, a TV station which was intended to serve Italian-speaking audiences in the region of Istria, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, but was widely available in Italy through cable systems. Under Fininvest's control, the station mainly operated as a sports channel. This arrangement ended in 1990.[3][4]
In 1990, Silvio Berlusconi Communications [it] entered into a partnership with DIC Enterprises and having SBC subsidiary Reteitalia S.p.A. [it] and Spanish TV channel Telecinco (which SBC held a stake) to co-produce shows,[5] a relationship that lasted until 1994.
I don't normally wish to speak ill of the departed but wasn't Mr Berlusconi a bit of a Mussolini admirer ?
Yep. Much of the Trump playbook was written by Bertusconi and Mussolini.
He was very careful to point out that "Mussolini made the trains run on time" and put order into business and government, he was not a delightful person in all other respects.
Back in the day, Mussolini had a difficult choice to make. Align with Hitler with the hope of winning and/or
sparing Italy/Italians from destruction. His decision to align with Hitler spared many lives in Italy and the
destruction of Italian infrastructure. Under Mussolini, Italians had some degree of freedom, though Italians
resented German restrictions. Berlusconi was a great entrepreneur, charming in some ways and ruthless
in others. While Berlusconi may have admired Mussolini in some ways, they were very, very different
personalities. The above assessments coming from numerous Italians who where there!
sparing Italy/Italians from destruction. His decision to align with Hitler spared many lives in Italy and the
destruction of Italian infrastructure. Under Mussolini, Italians had some degree of freedom, though Italians
resented German restrictions. Berlusconi was a great entrepreneur, charming in some ways and ruthless
in others. While Berlusconi may have admired Mussolini in some ways, they were very, very different
personalities. The above assessments coming from numerous Italians who where there!
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