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TV giants say Google and Amazon have too much power over your content picks

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Top TV broadcasters in Europe have alleged that smart TV platforms have too much control over users’ content choices. They have urged the EU’s antitrust regulator to impose stricter controls on these platforms. The lobby claims that this would prevent these platforms from solely promoting their own apps or services. A lobby of Europe’s biggest TV broadcasters has demanded that connected TV platfo…
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Millions of Germans watch TV every day. But who really decides what's going on there? More and more often than not, not the broadcasters, but the manufacturers of the devices. Now the EU is to decide what's going on on TV. The article Manipulation on TV: EU is to decide what's going on on TV first appeared on inside digital.

Open letter to the EU Commission: Google, Amazon and Samsung should be placed under stricter supervision as "gatekeepers"

European televisions, the traditional ones of life, have opened a new front against Big Tech in full regulatory toughening of the EU. Large broadcasting groups consider that SOs, the Smart TV Operating Systems, already act as dominant platforms capable of deciding what content the user sees, how they discover it and within what ecosystem it maintains. The request is direct on their part: to include these OS and TV within the reach of the Digital…

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Android Authority broke the news in on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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