Mediawan Thematics (formerly known as AB Groupe) is a French business group in the field of broadcasting.
It was founded in 1977 by Jean-Luc Azoulay and Claude Berda as a
music production
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
company, and in 1987 went into the world of
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
.
On October 11, 2018, AB Groupe was rebranded to Mediawan Thematics after the purchase by
Mediawan
Mediawan is a French media conglomerate. It was founded in December 2015 by Xavier Niel (founder of Free), Matthieu Pigasse (general director of the bank Lazard and, with Xavier Niel, a major stock holder in ''Le Monde'' and ''L'Obs'') and Pierre ...
in 2017.
Television
Former channels
AB sold many channels, notably the free national channels
TMC and
NT1 taken over by
TF1 when they were the main shareholder of AB Groupe.
References
External links
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Television networks in France
French-language television networks
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