Mediaset

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Mediaset S.p.A.

Mediaset headquarters in Cologno Monzese (Milan)
Formerly	Mediaset Italia S.p.A. (2019-2022)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Mass media
Founded	2019
Founder	Silvio Berlusconi
Headquarters	Cologno Monzese, Milan, Italy
Key people	Pier Silvio Berlusconi (CEO)
Products	Free-to-air and subscription television broadcasting Radio Television Production
Revenue	€2.801 billion (2022)
Net income	€471 million (2018)
Owner	MFE - MediaForEurope
Number of employees	4,858 (2022)
Subsidiaries	Reti Televisive Italiane Publitalia '80
Website	www.mediaset.it

Mediaset S.p.A., simply known as Mediaset is an Italian mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope (the original iteration of Mediaset S.p.A., a.k.a. the Mediaset Group), which is majority-owned by Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group. Stemming from a business founded in 1987 by entrepreneur and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset competes primarily against the public broadcaster RAI, the privately owned La7 and (through Sky Group Limited) Comcast's Sky Italia.

Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. 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. After merging with various local broadcasters to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno Monzese, where the infrastructure of the former Telealtomilanese was present. The company currently has three main television production centres, in Milan (Segrate, Cologno Monzese) and Rome.^[1]

In 2019, Mediaset transferred its corporate functions to the Netherlands and as a result, the Italian operations were taken over by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mediaset which began operations that year.