Mediaset

Sky Italia has asked Italy's antitrust authority to shelve a complaint made against it by Mediaset <MS.MI>, the country's biggest private broadcaster, over a USB key to view free digital terrestrial channels. Sky Italia, a unit of Rupert...

In this article: Italy, Revenue, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, and RAI

...at some point eyed or advised on a potential acquisition of ITV. Published: 6:15PM GMT 19 Nov 2009 Five owner RTL and Berlusconi's Mediaset are often linked with the broadcaster, but more often than not speculation is quickly followed by...

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...markets on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*). MEDIASET <MS.MI> The broadcaster said it had filed a complaint with the Italian antitrust body...

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...by Sky of this key breaches (European) community and national rules on competition," Mediaset said in a statement on Tuesday. Mediaset said the USB key aims to slow the sale of devices that allow viewers to access pay programmes and...

In this article: News Corp and Italy

...spearheading legislation that would cap the length of certain trials to six years, which if successful is widely expected to shut down the Mediaset trial and one other awaiting Berlusconi in Milan. Berlusconi is accused of tax fraud...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Defendant, Tax, Milan, Italy, Rome, and U.S.

...is accused of tax fraud and false accounting in the case, which revolves around the purchase of television rights by his broadcast company, Mediaset. Lawyers for the 73-year-old billionaire, who has been dogged by allegations of impropriety...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Allegation, Tax, Rome, Food and Agricultural Organisation, Bankruptcy, The Catholic Church, and People of Freedom

...of the Mediaset TV group, while his daughter Marina, 43, chairs the holding company Fininvest, which contains the family stakes in Mediaset, as well as AC Milan football club, Mediolanum financial services and the Mondadori publishing...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Veronica Lario, Milan, Dog, La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, Mediolanum, and Fininvest

...trials will be declared extinct. One is a trial against him on charges of false accounting in the acquisition of TV rights by his Mediaset television empire. Another is a case in which he is accused of bribing British lawyer David Mills to...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, Bankruptcy, World War Two, Union of Christian Democrats, People of Freedom, Pierferdinando Casini, and European Union

...Berlusconi's TV empire, which led to rumours of a casting couch, could be at an end. Young starlets wanting jobs on the Premier's Mediaset programmes must demonstrate appropriate professional skills and training, according to a stern memo...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Mara Carfagna, Corriere della Sera, Emilio Fede, and Italy

...Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Sky Italia, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp <NWSA.O>, had sued two units of Mediaset alleging Mediaset refused to let it buy advertising time. [ID:nLG266594] Mediaset, the country's No. 1 commercial...

In this article: Milan, Revenue, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, and Italy