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The Italian broadcasting sector is dominated by two major players: the State owned RAI and the private company Finninvest. Article 15 of the 1990 Law governing public and private broadcasting in Italy recognises the possession of three commercial television channels ( Canal 5, Italia 1 and Rete quatro) by Finninvest. Small television operators led by Telemontecarlo, Videomusic and Elefante TV challenged the law, which resulted on 5 December 1994 in a judgment of the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court decided that the law codified a dominant position in the media sector and ruled that...