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Italy's centre-left government has approved a bill that would force one of Silvio Berlusconi's three TV channels to go digital at least three years before the country switches away from analogue.

RAI, the public broadcaster, RAI, would also lose one of its three free-to-air channels.

Mr Berlusconi, who was ousted as prime minister earlier this year by Romano Prodi, called the move "banditry". His Mediaset company said it was "tailor-made for political revenge" and could savage the group's profits.

The idea is to let new players into a market dominated by just two corporations. Between them, Mediaset and RAI have …

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