Mediaset

Mediaset S.p.A.
FormerlyMediaset Italia S.p.A. (2019-2022)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMass media
Founded2019
FounderSilvio Berlusconi
HeadquartersCologno Monzese, Milan, Italy
Key people
Pier Silvio Berlusconi (CEO)
ProductsFree-to-air and
subscription
television broadcasting
Radio
Television Production
RevenueIncrease €2.801 billion (2022)
Increase €471 million (2018)
OwnerMFE - MediaForEurope
Number of employees
Increase 4,858 (2022)
SubsidiariesReti Televisive Italiane
Publitalia '80
Websitewww.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.

  1. ^ "Offices". Mediaset. Archived from the original on 21 December 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2009.