Italian 'plan' to change broadcast rules provokes outrage and U-turn

摘要

Italian broadcasters, regulators and commentators were left stunned on Wednesday after the government of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared to stage a rapid volte face on controversial new broadcasting legislation which it was planning to approve this week.rnIt is understood that new laws would have cut substantially the amount of advertising that pay-television channels can show and would have transferred regulatory powers over satellite-television channels from communications regulator Agcom to the government.