Mediaset Premium

Mediaset Premium
Type	Pay TV
Industry	Prepaid subscription television
Founded	20 January 2005
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Key people	Piersilvio Berlusconi
Owner	RTI (88.889%) Telefónica (11.111%)
Parent	Mediaset (ultimate) RTI (direct)
Website	mediasetpremium.it

Mediaset Premium is an Italian digital terrestrial television service provided by Mediaset. It provides pay TV and pay-per-view (only for football matches) through the use of a smart card as well as video on demand through its Premium Play and Premium Online streaming service.

History

Premium Sport logo

Mediaset Premium was launched on January 20, 2005, initially offering only pay-per-view services for movies and sports.

In January 2008, it became a full pay TV, launching the package "Premium Gallery", available, with a package for football matches, through monthly subscription or prepaid. Over time, new packages and new channels enrich the offered.

In 2015, the new offering provides channels of movies, TV series, sport, documentaries, cartoons and interactive services Premium Play and Premium Online. From 2016, Premium will also broadcast on satellite TV.

Broadcast until 2018 the UEFA Champions League exclusive in Italy on channels Premium Sports and Premium Calcio also in HD. It also owns the sports rights, in addition to the Serie A, of foreign tournaments as the Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France, the Scottish Premiership, also of the NFL of American football. There are also channels Eurosport and Eurosport 2.

In 2016 Vivendi agreed to buy 100% stake of Mediaset Premium and 3.5% stake of Mediaset by selling 3.5% stake of Vivendi's shares.^[1] However, after inspecting the financial statements as well as income forecast, Vivendi did not wish to enforce the original terms but submitting a revised offer to buy 20% stake in Mediaset Premium, as well as buying convertible bonds of Mediaset Premium.^[2] Fininvest, the majority owner of Mediaset, had choose to start legal action to Vivendi.^[3]

Channels

The offer is currently divided main packages, available in prepaid or through monthly subscriptions.

Package	Number's channel	Channel	Description
Service Channels	300 310	Premium Menu Premium Play	service service
Series & Docs	311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 320 325 326	Premium Action HD Premium Action +24 Premium Crime HD Premium Crime +24 Premium Joi Premium Joi +24 Premium Stories Premium Stories +24 Investigation Discovery Premium Extra 1 Premium Extra 2	TV series TV series TV series TV series TV series TV series TV series TV series documentaries reality - 24h live reality - 24h live
Cinema	330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337	Premium Cinema HD Premium Cinema +24 Premium Cinema 2 HD Premium Cinema 2 +24 Premium Energy Premium Emotion Premium Comedy Studio Universal	blockbuster movies blockbuster movies blockbuster movies blockbuster movies action/crime movies drama movies comedy movies classic/noir movies
Children	350	Cartoon Network	cartoons
Sports & Football	370 371 372 373 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 390	Premium Sport Premium Sport 2 Eurosport Eurosport 2 Premium Sport HD Premium Sport 2 HD Premium Calcio 1 Premium Calcio 2 Premium Calcio 3 Premium Calcio 4 Premium Calcio 5 Premium Calcio 6 Premium Calcio 7 Premium Calcio 1 HD	sports 24h sports 24h sports 24h sports 24h sports 24h sports 24h live football match live football match live football match live football match live football match live football match live football match live football match
Service Channels	399	Premium Online	service

Premium Play

Premium Play is a streaming service on PC, iPad, Android, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Samsung Smart TV, Windows for subscription customers in conjunction with the TV packages.

Typology Channels	Channel	Included in the pay-package	Description
Extra	Cartoon Network On Demand Mediaset Fiction Mediaset Show Premium Calcio Premium Cinema Hit Premium Cinema Italia Premium Cinema Star Premium Serie	Bambini free free Sport & Calcio Cinema Cinema Cinema Serie & Doc	cartoons and series TV teen/kids Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete 4's best series TV Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete 4's best shows football movies movies movies series TV
Live	Mediaset TGCOM24 Premium Calcio Premium Diretta Calcio 1 Premium Diretta Calcio 2	free Sport & Calcio Sport & Calcio Sport & Calcio	news football live football live football

References

↑ "Vivendi forms a strategic and industrial partnership with Mediaset". Vivendi. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
↑ "Vivendi and Mediaset: structure of the offer". Vivendi. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
↑ "Fininvest claims 570 million euros damages from Vivendi" (PDF). Fininvest. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

External links

Official website (Italian)

Mediaset

Subsidiaries

Reti Televisive Italiane	Elettronica Industriale (100%) Videotime (98.96%) Mediashopping S.p.a. (100%) Medusa Film (100%) Taodue (100%) The Space Cinema (100%) Tivù (48.25%)² Class CNBC (10.9%)³

Mediaset España Comunicación	Publiespaña Canal+ (22%)

Publitalia '80 Endemol

Television channels

Italy

Free to Air

HD	Canale 5 HD Italia 1 HD Rete 4 HD

Pay television

Mediaset Premium

HD	Premium Cinema HD Premium Calcio HD

Spain

Free to Air

HD	Telecinco HD Cuatro HD Be MAD TV (only HD)

Nessma TV (25%)
China Sport Programs Network
Mediaset Italia
Mediaset Italia (Canadian version)

Defunct assets

^Note 1 Joint venture with RAI (48%) and Telecom Italia Media (4%).
^Note 2 Joint venture with Class Editori (60%) and NBCUniversal (20%).
^Note 3 With +1 timeshift
^Note 4 Joint venture with NBCUniversal.
^Note 5 Joint venture with Sherjan Broadcasting (72%), with 28% owned through Mediaset España Comunicación.

Vivendi

Network information
and ownership

Directors

Universal Music Group

Capitol Music Group	Astralwerks Apple Records Blue Note Records Capitol Records mau5trap Motown Virgin Records

Decca Label Group	Decca Records Deutsche Grammophon

Interscope Geffen A&M Records	A&M Records A&M Octone Records DGC Records Geffen Records Interscope Records Polydor Records

Island Records	Mercury Records

Roc Nation	StarRoc Takeover Roc Nation

Republic Records	Cash Money Records Big Machine Label Group

Universal Music Enterprises	Hip-O Records

Universal Music Group	Universal Music Distribution

Universal Music Group Nashville	MCA Nashville Mercury Nashville Records Lost Highway Records Capitol Records Nashville EMI Records Nashville

Universal Music Latin Entertainment	Capitol Latin Disa Records Fonovisa Records Machete Music

Verve Records	GRP Records Impulse! Records Verve Forecast Records

Virgin EMI	Capitol UK EMI Records Virgin Records

Capitol Christian Music Group	Motown Gospel Sparrow Records Tooth & Nail Records

Other UMG Assets	Def Jam Recordings Show Dog-Universal Music Vevo Eagle Rock Universal Music Publishing Group Universal Music TV

Canal+ Group

Other assets

Dailymotion (90%)
Ubisoft (22.8%)
Gameloft (96%)
Telecom Italia (20.03%)

Sports television channels in Italy

Terrestrial channels	Premium Sport (pay) Premium Calcio (pay) Rai Sport 1^† Rai Sport 2^† Nuvolari^†

Satellite channel (pay)	Sky Sport Sky Calcio Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 Fox Sports Inter Channel Milan Channel Juventus Channel

^†Available also on Satellite television.

Television in Italy

Terrestrial digital (free)

RAI	Rai 1 (Rai 1 HD) · Rai 2 (Rai 2 HD) · Rai 3 (Rai 3 HD)· Rai 4 · Rai 5 · Rai Movie · Rai Premium · Rai Gulp · Rai YoYo · Rai News24 · Rai Storia · Rai Scuola · Rai Sport 1 (Rai Sport 1 HD) · Rai Sport 2

Mediaset	Canale 5 (Canale 5 HD) · Italia 1 (Italia 1 HD) · Rete 4 (Rete 4 HD) · La5 · Italia 2 · Iris · Top Crime · Mediaset Extra · TgCom24 · R101 TV · Boing · Cartoonito

Discovery Italia	NOVE · Real Time · DMAX · Giallo · Focus · K2 · Frisbee

Cairo Communication	LA7 (LA7 HD) · LA7d (LA7d HD)

Sky Italia	TV8 · cielo · Sky TG24

Viacom	Paramount Channel · VH1

Al.ma Media	Alice · Marcopolo

Other national channels	TV2000 · Fine Living · Super! · SuperTennis · Sportitalia · Top Calcio 24 · Top Planet · Split Tv · Nuvola61 · RTL 102.5 TV · Radio Italia TV · Padre Pio TV · France 24

Network of local televisions	7 Gold

Teleshopping and lower national channels	QVC · HSE24 · Juwelo TV · Winga TV · Acqua · Play.me · Canale Italia · Retecapri · Neko TV · Capri Gourmet · Radio Capri TelevisiON · Retecapri 2 · Capri Store · Capri Casinò

Terrestrial digital (pay)

Mediaset Premium

Satellite television (free)

Tivù Sat

Satellite television (pay)

Sky Italia

TV On Demand (free)

RaiPlay · Mediaset On Demand · LA7 On Demand · Dplay

TV On Demand (pay)

Now TV · Infinity · TIMvision · Netflix

Cable, satellite, and other speciality television providers in Europe

Cable	Alma TV Anvia ASTA-NET AS Starman ASK CATV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mtel (Bulgaria) Cabovisão (Portugal) Caiway (Netherlands) Canal Digital (Norway) Casema Com Hem (Sweden) dna Welho (Finland) EVision (Ireland) ELTA-KABEL (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ER-Telecom Get GO (Malta) INEA (Poland) IPKO Kabel Deutschland (Germany) Kabel Noord KATV1 (Azerbaijan) Kazakhtelecom (Kazakhstan) Kujtesa Lattelecom Madritel Magnet Networks Magyar Telekom MC Cable Melita Cable MEO (Portugal) MISS.NET (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Movistar+ (Spain) MTIS (Belarus) M&H Company Naxoo (Switzerland) North-West Telecom NOS (Portugal) Numericable-SFR (France) SFR (Belgium) ONO (Spain) Orange TV (France) Petrus (Poland) PostTV Luxembourg Primacom Promax(Poland) Radijus Vektor RCS & RDS (Romania) Rostelecom (Russia) R (Spain) Sappa TV Sat Film (Poland) SATRO (Slovakia) SEEMORE Serbia Broadband (Serbia) Southern Telecom Splius(Lithuania) Stofa(Demnark) STV AS Swisscom Tango TV(Luxembourg) Telecable (Spain) Telekabel (Macedonia) Tele Columbus(Germany) Tele2 Telemach (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia) Telenet (Belgium) Teledünya (Turkey) Telset (Estonia) Terrakom TOYA (Poland) Turksat Kablo TV (Turkey) Unitymedia (Germany) Uralsvyazinform UPC Cablecom UPC Magyarország (Hungary) UPC Polska (Poland) UPC Romania (Romania) VECTRA Virgin TV (UK) Virgin Media Ireland Vodafone Ireland Vodafone TV VolgaTelecom Volia (Ukraine) VOO WightFibre YouSee (Denmark) Ziggo (Netherlands)

Satellite	AB Sat (France) AKTA TV (Romania) Antik Sat Austriasat Bulsatcom Canal Digital (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) CanalDigitaal (Netherlands and Flanders) Canalsat (France) Caspio HD CS Link Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland) Digi TV Digit-Alb Digiturk (Turkey) Dolce (Romania) D-SMART (Turkey) Euro1080 Filbox Focus Sat (Romania) fransat Freesat (UK) Freesat from Sky (UK) Free Sat (Romania) GlobeCast World TV HD+ MagtiCom (Georgia) Movistar+ (Spain) Mtel (Bulgaria) MEO (Portugal) NC+ (Poland) NOS (Portugal) NOVA Cyprus NOVA Greece NTV Plus (Russia) Orbita Telecom Otau TV (Kazakhstan) Cosmote TV (Greece) Real Digital Saorsat Sky UK (UK) Sky Deutschland (Germany) Sky Ireland (Ireland) Sky Italia (Italy) Skylink TéléSAT Numérique(Belgium) Tivù Sat (Italy) TNTSAT TotalTV Tricolor TV (Russia) Tring Digital TV TV Vlaanderen Digitaal (Flanders) UPC Direct Viasat (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania) Viasat Ukraine Vip SAT TV Vivacom Xtra TV(Ukraine) ZeonBud

IPTV	A1 Telekom Austria Alice Home TV Altibox Amis Beeline Bouygues Telecom BT TV(UK) Bulsatcom(Bulgaria) Canal Digital CytaVision(Cyprus) DartyBox(France) Fastweb(Italy) Free(France) Freewire(UK) HOME.TV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) iNES(Romania) Infostrada TV(Italy) KPN(Netherlands) Magnet Networks(Ireland) Moja TV(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Moldtelecom Movistar+(Spain) Mtel (Bulgaria) Mts TV (Serbia) MEO (Portugal) Neuf Cegetel NOS (Portugal) On Telecoms(Greece) Open IPTV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Optimus Clix(Portugal) Orange TV(France) OTE TV Plusnet Portugal Telecom PrimeTel(Cyprus) Proximus TV(Belgium) Sappa TV Scarlet(Belgium) SFR(France) ShqipTV Síminn(Iceland) Smart Telecom(Ireland) Super TV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sure TV T-2(Slovenia) TalkTalk TV (UK) TDC (Denmark) Telenor (Norway) Telfort (Netherlands) Telia Digital-tv TeliaSonera Teo LT TIMvision Tivibu YouView (UK) Vivacom (Bulgaria) Vodafone Greece Vodafone Portugal XS4ALL (Netherlands)

Terrestrial	Antena PLUS(Serbia) Boom TV (Macedonia) Boxer TV Access (Sweden) Boxer TV A/S (Denmark) Boxer TV Ireland Easy TV (Ireland) evotv (Croatia) Freeview (UK) KPN Digitenne (Netherlands) Mediaset Premium (Italy) PlusTV (Finland) PTDT (Portugal) RiksTV (Norway) Saorview (Ireland) TNT (France) Zala TV (Belarus)

Defunct	Boom TV (Romania) CableTel(Bulgaria) Romtelecom Numericable UPC Nederland UPC Ireland

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