Editing Television broadcaster (section)

=== Italy ===
{{See also|Television in Italy}}[[File:EIARtelevisione39.jpg|thumb|[[Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche|EIAR]] studio for experimental television transmissions, in 1939.]]
After some early tests in the 1930s,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-08-27 |title=Early Television in Italy |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100727/http://s206301103.websitehome.co.uk/database/it.tv.htm |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=s206301103.websitehome.co.uk}}</ref> Italy experimented first regular electronic television transmissions from July 1939 to May 1940, through the state-owned [[Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche|EIAR]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-22 |title=L'inizio delle trasmissioni sperimentali dell'Eiar, 1939 - |url=https://www.teche.rai.it/2024/07/trasmissioni-sperimentali-eiar/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Rai Teche |language=it-IT}}</ref> After the war, the state-owned [[RAI]] was established and regular transmissions began on 3 January 1954. At the end of the 1970s, local private television networks began broadcasting, among which the ones from [[Silvio Berlusconi]]'s [[Fininvest]] emerged in the 1980s, creating an holding that controls three major channels ([[Rete 4]], [[Canale 5]] and [[Italia 1]]), opposed still today to the three ones from the RAI itself.