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Oct 27, 2011 · France’s antitrust regulator has officially been re-notified of pay-TV firm Canal+’s plan to acquire rival TPS, after withdrawing its 2006 approval for the merger.
On 31 August 2006 TPS merged with its competitor CanalSat, owned by the Canal+ Group. [1] The two distributors merged their packages on 21 March 2007. Essentially, TPS merged into CanalSat which was then branded as Nouveau CanalSat.
On 31 August 2006, after acquiring competitor TPS, the two companies were merged within the Canal+ Group. [2] On 7 December 2010 both Canal+ channels and the 90 CanalSat channels became available live on Microsoft's XBOX 360. [2] In 2011 the merger with TPS was cancelled by the Competition Authority.
Sep 25, 2006 · In December, Vivendi Universal, owner of Canal+ Group, and TF1 and M6, which own TPS, signed a draft agreement to combine the pay-TV businesses. The transaction has been approved by the French government and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.
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Subscription channel and production company
The subscription channel Canal+ was launched in November 1984, when there were only three government-owned channels available in France. The company was co-founded by André Rousselet, president of the French multinational advertising company Havas, and Pierre Lescure, which proved very popular with media professionals and politicians.There were 186,000 subscribers, who committed to paying 140 francs (21.34 euros) per month for the service. Alain de Greef[fr] (c.1947 – 29 June 2015) joined in...
Satellite broadcasting
On 6 December 1991, CanalSatellite was created. Canal+ started began satellite broadcasting in 1992, to reach parts of France not covered by cable. Digital satellite provider CanalSatellite was launched as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canal+ on 6 December 1991. On 27 April 1996, Canal+ received two new sister channels: Canal+ Jaune and Canal+ Bleu. In 1999 Canal+ partnered with Vivendi to create V-Net. During the 1990s it also expanded further into Europe and the UK, with BSkyB and TVS. Later...
21st century
In January 2000, it was announced that French arms and media conglomerate Lagardère Group had purchased a major stake in the digital television division, taking 34 percent of CanalSatellite and nearly 27.5 percent of MultiThematiques, for a price of more than US$890 million. Lagardère acquired the 30.2% MultiThematiques stake then held by Vivendi. In February 2000, Canal+ announced the merger of its Ellipse Programme TV production company into the programming provider Expand. The company cont...
Canal+ 3D was established in June 2010, to broadcast some matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D. It then only ran a single movie and one live event each month, obtaining 3D content produced in the UK and Spain. After the channel only attracted around 30,000 subscribers, it stopped broadcasting on 24 January 2012. After this date, it was still po...
Groupe Canal+, referred to as Canal+ Group in English on its website, is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris. The group distributes third-party channels and services, as well as being a major source of finance for domestic film production, participating in the financing of the vast majority of films produced in France. It ...
Groupe Canal+ is governed by a dual board system, with a Supervisory Board (Conseil de Surveillance) and an Executive Committee (Comité éxecutif). As of May 2024[update]the president of the Supervisory Board is Jean-Christophe Thiery. Executive positions include: 1. Maxime Saada, CEO of the group, president of StudioCanal, president/director genera...
Canal+
The flagship brand of the organisation is Canal+, a French premium television channel launched in 1984. It is encrypted for most of the day, and viewers who wish to watch the channel's more popular programming (new-release movies and live sport) must subscribe to the service. Previously this involved the purchase of a decoder to decrypt the signal, but today Canal+ is offered as part of a multi-channel satellite or cable television package.[citation needed]
StudioCanal
StudioCanal is a production company formed in 1988, associated with NBCUniversal until 2011. Nowadays, StudioCanal is operating in several countries such as Germany, Japan, or Australia.For the movie industry, it is a major player at the European level. StudioCanal announced in 2011 that it would spend €200 million a year on movie production, establishing its position as "the first port of call outside the U.S. for intelligent upmarket movies" such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which is fully...
Thema
Thema is a Canal+ Group company that oversees distribution of Pay TV services, FAST channels, YouTube Channels, and other content to cable, IPTV, and DTH operators and streaming services. As of 2024[update]it covers over 180 TV channels worldwide and has partnerships with major pay TV platforms in France, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Canada, Latin America, and the US. Thema was founded in 2005 by François Thiellet, and acquired by Canal+ in 2014. At this time, it was the parent company...
Past operations
Movie Network, an Australian premium television service launched in 1995, was founded as a partnership between Canal+, HBO (a subsidiary of Time Warner), The Walt Disney Company, MGM/UA and Village Roadshow. A few years later, Canal+ dropped out of the partnership.[when?][citation needed] Canal Plus was the first cable TV channel to operate in Brazil, in 1989. It operated on the MMDS system and broadcast part of ESPN programming. Its Brazilian operations were sold to Grupo Abrilin 1991.
Canal+ International
Canal+ International[fr] is a subsidiary of the group. By 31 December 2023, it had 6.6 million subscribers in over 50 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and French Overseas Territories in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean regions. As of 2024[update]Canal+ International also produces over 100 channels for international distribution. On 15 November 2017, Quebec cable system Videotron began carrying Canal+ International, marking it the first provider to carry the channel. It is also the...
Jan 15, 2007 · Canal+ has chosen the Astra satellite system to distribute its premium channel and pay-TV packages following the merger with former rival TPS. Two thirds of the combined entity's subscribers had their satellite dishes pointed towards the Astra satellite.
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Sep 26, 2011 · France’s anti-trust regulator has withdrawn approval for local pay-TV firm Canal+’s 2006 acquisition of rival TPS, citing breaches to conditions attached to the decision. As well as imposing a E30m fine on Canal+, which is owned by French media...
