Mediaset

Mediaset confirms talks with Prisa

Rapid TV News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Silvio Berlusconi's Italian broadcasting giant Mediaset has confirmed it is in "ongoing talks" about Spain's Prisa (Promotora de Informaciones SA).

Throw out Mediaset complaint, Sky asks

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

*Throw out Mediaset complaint, Sky asks Chris Forrester 22-11-2009 Last week Mediaset formally complained about a Sky Italia USB 'key' that opens up reception of free digital...

Mediaset's Race With Sky Heats Up

The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Italy’s Mediaset will offer on-demand TV through a new digital terrestrial decoder, as it boosts its pay-TV offering in an increasingly competitive race with rival News Corp.’s Sky Italia.

Mediaset takes aim at Sky Italia

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

International News: Reports company to anti-trust authority -- Mediaset has reported Rupert Murdoch's paybox Sky Italia to the anti-trust authority for introducing a "digital key."

UPDATE 1-Mediaset boosts offer as News Corp fight goes on

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

MONTE CARLO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Italian broadcaster Mediaset SpA forecast double-digit growth in pay-TV clients and boosted its product offering in a new move against rival News Corp unit Sky Italia.

UPDATE: Mediaset Files Antitrust Suit Against Sky Digital Key - NASDAQ

Milan City (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

ROME -(Dow Jones)- Mediaset SpA (MS ... Mediaset's legal move will likely further escalate tensions between News Corp. and the Italian broadcaster, owned by Italian ...

Mediaset launches Premium on Demand

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

By *Julian Clover* November 19, 2009 11.10 UK Image: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pier-silvio-berlusconi-221x300.jpg Mediaset has announced plans to introduce a...

UPDATE 2-Mediaset profit tops view; Nov ad sales flat

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

* Shares close up 0.38 percent before results (Adds conference call comments)

End of conversations between Prisa, Mediaset

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

*End of conversations between Prisa, Mediaset Iñaki Ferreras 29-10-2009 On again, off again…Spain's main media group Sogecable's Prisa has put an end to its conversations with Italian...

Mediaset, Telefónica: 20% each in Digital+?

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

*Mediaset, Telefónica: 20% each in Digital+? Iñaki Ferreras 28-10-2009 For the first time after months of speculations, Juan Luis Cebrián, the CEO of Spain's main media group, Prisa, has...

Berlusconi linked to the Mafia

World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

... false charges to bring down the 19-month-old government -- his third since 1994 -- and attack his Mediaset business empire. Stripped of immunity from prosecution, the prime minister faced legal difficulties on two fronts on Friday, with an ally appealing against conviction on Mafia charges and an unrelated corruption case where he is accused of bribing a British lawyer. Mafia "pentito,"...

Sky Italia predicts huge growth

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

*Sky Italia predicts huge growth Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge has told the Italian press it will grow strongly and is not waging a war on Mediaset. "It is true that, according to the press,...

• News's Sky Italia sees enormous room to grow: report - Reuters

News Corp's Cielo delay ‘insults' government

MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

... in Italian, plans to challenge a free-to-air broadcasting market that is effectively split between Mediaset and the public broadcaster RAI.

Berlusconi corruption trial to resume December 4

JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

... false testimony at two trials in 1997 and 1998 involving Berlusconi's broadcasting company, Mediaset. Last week, Berlusconi's separate trial for tax fraud was suspended until January. In October, the Italian Constitutional Court struck down the 2008 law granting immunity from prosecution to the four highest officials of the country, finding it unconstitutional. Berlusconi has faced trial...

Berlusconi hits out at claims of Mafia inquiry

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

... Berlusconi's daughter Marina, who heads the family company Fininvest that controls broadcaster Mediaset, announced on Saturday that they would sue opposition newspaper La Repubblica – controlled by a rival, Carlo De Benedetti – over an article that said Mediaset was "20 per cent owned by the Mafia".Mr Berlusconi said he would "combat the press campaign by the La Repubblica-Espresso...