MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Mediaset (MI:MS) has filed a new claim against France's Vivendi (PA:VIV), the private broadcaster's chairman Fedele Confalonieri said on Wednesday, as feuding between the two groups over a failed pay-TV deal grows.
Confalonieri said the new claim was on the grounds of contract violation, unfair competition and breaking TV pluralism laws.
Confalonieri, speaking at the beginning of the Milan-based group's annual shareholder meeting, did not give any further details.
The two groups are already involved in a legal battle in the Milan courts after Vivendi in July pulled out of an 800 million euro (£709 million) contract that would have given it full control of Mediaset's pay-Tv unit Premium.
Confalonieri said the unexpected U-turn by the French group had not allowed the group to "express its full potential" and that Mediaset would do everything possible to bring Premium back into "equilibrium".