Berlusconi moves to protect control of broadcast networks

By 2002-09-08T00:00:00

Silvio Berlusconi's government has presented a controversial new media law to the Italian Parliament, which clears the path for the privatisation of state broadcaster RAI in 2004 and will allow the media mogul-premier to retain all three of his free-to-air Mediaset channels.

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