Perhaps the Berlusconi years made me lazy, but I’ve had to re-learn some cautionary principles of Italian politics:
the position of the government is not necessarily the same as the position of the parties that compose it;
the position of the government is not necessarily the same as the position of the largest party in the government;
the […]
Paolo Gentiloni today announces that Rai gets €33 million more to aid the switch-over to digital.
The headline figure cited by Gentiloni - “uno stanziamento per il triennio 2007-2009 per complessivi 300 milioni per la promozione digitale” [a subvention of 300 million for digital over the three-year period 2007-2009] - sounds good; although not all of […]
Minister for Communications Paolo Gentiloni today unveiled a blueprint for the future of Italian public service broadcaster Rai. Rai is to become a public foundation which shall nominate the executives of the company and decide on the value of the licence fee in conjunction with the government. Public service and commercial broadcasting will be entrusted […]
Event:The Prodi government has agreed changes to Italy’s framework media law, reducing generous antri-trust limits set by the previous Berlusconi government.
Significance:Public broadcaster Rai and private corporation Mediaset - owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - enjoy a de facto duopoly over Italian television. Each has three of seven national terrestrial channels, and their advertising […]
Paolo Gentiloni’s initial thoughts on Rai’s reorganisation - which I covered earlier this month, seem to have hardened. In an interview with the Corriere della Sera (reprinted here), Gentiloni suggests that Rai ought to have a rather complex structure. Rai is to remain a single company, but is to have three separate accounting units/subsidiaries:
One […]
Paolo Gentiloni outlines his plan for the Communications sector before today’s hearing in front the Culture Commission. He discusses the currently stalled privatisation of Rai, indirectly quoted as follows:
Gentiloni punta alla riorganizzazione dell’assetto societario che contempli una divisione tra l’attività di servizio pubblico, l’attività commerciale e le reti [Gentiloni hints at the reorganisation of the […]
