{"id":999245,"date":"2026-03-25T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999245"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:01:07","slug":"eu-digital-rules-should-apply-to-big-techs-smart-tvs-broadcasters-tell-antitrust-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/eu-digital-rules-should-apply-to-big-techs-smart-tvs-broadcasters-tell-antitrust-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"EU digital rules should apply to Big Tech&#8217;s smart TVs, broadcasters tell antitrust chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung&#8217;s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU&#8217;s toughest tech rules because of their growing market power, the world&#8217;s largest broadcasters told EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The call by the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT) whose members include Canal+, RTL, Mediaset, ITV, Paramount+, NBCUniversal, Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Sky and TF1 Groupe comes amid mounting concerns among broadcasters over Big Tech&#8217;s \u200cencroachment into their industry \u2060as \u2060they push back against their rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung&#8217;s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU&#8217;s toughest tech rules because of their growing market power, the world&#8217;s largest broadcasters told EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera on Monday. The call by the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT) whose members include Canal+, RTL, Mediaset, ITV, Paramount+, NBCUniversal, Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Sky and TF1 Groupe comes amid mounting concerns among broadcasters over Big Tech&#8217;s \u200cencroachment into their industry \u2060as \u2060they push back against their rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}