

Until 31 December 2005, there were four other encrypted satellite channels owned by Mediaset on SKY Italia: Duel TV, Happy Channel, IT Italia Teen Television, and MT Channel. Mediaset Italia: international pay TV channel also available through Cable TV, and IPTV.Mediaset Plus: pay TV on Sky Italia pay TV platform.Canal+ Dos: generalist TV channel (Pay TV) (Property of Digital+).Divinity: female-oriented (entertainment channel).FactoríaDeFicción: devoted to TV series and films.LaSiete: dedicated to sports and reality shows.Mediaset Premium: pay-tv and pay-per-view service.

Rete 4 +1: time shifted version of Rete 4.Italia 1 +1: time shifted version of Italia 1.Canale 5 +1: time shifted version of Canale 5.Italia 2: male-oriented (entertainment channel).Mediaset Extra: (Mediaset cult programs).La5: female-oriented (entertainment channel).Boing: children channel (51% Mediaset, 49% Turner Broadcasting System).In addition to its domestic television interests, Mediaset also operates a series of news, entertainment and sport websites holds 50.1% of the Spanish broadcasting firm Mediaset España Comunicación and heads a consortium which owns the television production house Endemol. ĭue to their proximity to (or encirclement by) Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Malta, San Marino, the Vatican City and Slovenia also receive Mediaset broadcasts.

The company currently has three main television production centres, in Segrate, Cologno Monzese and Rome. After merging with various local broadcaster to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno Monzese, where the infrastructure of the former Telealtomilanese was present. Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, where broadcasts of local station TeleMilano (now airing nationally as Mediaset's Canale 5) began in 1978. Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in the 1970s by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and still controlled today with a 38.6% stake by his family holding company Fininvest, the group competes primarily against the public broadcaster and market leader RAI, La 7, and News Corporation's Sky Italia. Mediaset S.p.A., known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country.

Mediaset España (50.1%), Endemol (as part of consortium) Giuliano Adreani ( CEO), Fedele Confalonieri ( Chairman), Pier Silvio Berlusconi (Vice-Chairman)įree-to-air and subscription television broadcasting, television production
