Prodijeva vlada traži naèina da se ponište Berlusconijeve medijske reforme

30.06.2006.

Prodi govt seeks to undo Berlusconi media reforms

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Italy's fledgling government on Thursday revealed plans to undo contested media reform laws passed by the government under former prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Communications Minister Paolo Gentiloni said in the 'next few months' the government would propose legislation to overhaul competition limits, the sale of sports television broadcasting rights, the switch-off of analogue television and the future of state television.

 

Changes to the sector affect not only the Berlusconi empire but also Telecom Italia's media group, News Corp's satellite provider Sky Italia and a host of publishers such as the owner of Corriere della Sera newspaper RCS Mediagroup.

 

Gentiloni said the media industry overhaul would also involve pushing forward the date for the switch-over from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) to between 2010 and 2012 from 2008. Neither would Prodi's government be subsidising DTT as Berlusconi's did, a matter that is being probed by the European Union. RAI state television may also be split into three companies - one commercial, one public, one a network operator - to be controlled by a state-run holding, he added.

RAI is currently state-run and non-commercial.

 

Source: http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29103552&imageid=&cap= - Reuters

 

 

 

Renate Schroeder,

Director,

European Federation of Journalists

International Press Centre

Residence Palace, Block C

rue de la Loi, 155

1040 Brussels

TEL 0032.2.235.22 02

http://www.ifj-europe.org/

E-mail: Renate.Schroeder@ifj.org

 

 

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