The Gasparri law which currently regulates the Italian media landscape is a bad law in very many ways. Not least of these is the fact that it sets out two different ways of appointing and removing members to the Board of Rai.
The first of these - the one currently in use - is hidden away […]
The Corriere reports that the Rai board meeting which was scheduled for the 8th of August did not go ahead because of a failure to reach quorum. The meeting had been requested by the Treasury Minister, Padoa-Schioppa, who wants to fire the Treasury representative on the board, Angelo Maria Petroni. But, according to Art. 2388 […]
Establishment of public broadcasters by charters has its upsides and its downsides.
Upsides: it maintains the independence of the broadcaster.
Downsides: I have to read through Sweden’s 1996 Television and Radio Law, the 2007 Licence Agreement, and the Supplement to the Licence Agreement, before finding that none of them contain anything on the governance of SVT.
Thankfully, this […]
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 […]
