Canal+ is a French subscription provider associated to the channel of the same name. It is owned by

Vivendi Vivendi SE is a French mass media holding company headquartered in Paris. Widely known as the owner of Gameloft, Groupe Canal+, Havas, Editis, Prisma Media, Vivendi Village and Dailymotion, the company has activities in television, film, video ...

(owner of Canal+) with a hundred percent share.

History

In 1992, Canalsatellite was launched, the shareholders were

Canal+ Group Groupe Canal+ is a French mass media company. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi has sold some parts of Canal+ to private investors which are still using the name of Canal+. It is headqu ...

(66 percent) and Lagardère Active (34 percent), a subsidiary of

Lagardère Lagardère may refer to: * Lagardère Group, a French media group * Jean-Luc Lagardère (1928–2003), French engineer and businessman and CEO of the Lagardère Group * Arnaud Lagardère (born 1961), French businessman and son of Jean-Luc Lagardèr ...

. On 27 April 1996, Canalsatellite launched as a digital satellite platform, which was the first in Europe. An inside account of the rise of Canal+ and establishment of Canalsatellite as a major satellite TV provider in Europe is given in the book ''

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'', which tells the story of the foundation and development of the leading European satellite operator,

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. In late 2005, Canal+ acquired its competitor TPS. On 15 November 2016, Canalsat was rebranded as ''Canal''. In 2017, Canal lost

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and

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channels, recovered by

SFR SFR (; ''Société française du radiotéléphone'', ) is a French telecommunications company. As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provided 6.35 million households with high-spee ...

. Canal replaced them by exclusive newly-launched channels:

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, Polar+,

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and Novelas TV. On 27 May 2019, Canal+ bought

M7 Group M7 Group (legally Canal+ Luxembourg S.à.r.l.) is a Luxembourg-based television provider which operates several direct broadcast satellite pay TV platforms: HD Austria in Austria, Télésat in Belgium and Luxembourg, TV Vlaanderen in the Flander ...

for 1 billion euro.https://flashesandflames.com/media_deals/canal-buys-pay-tv/ On 1 August 2019, Canal was renamed Canal+ to bring the same name all around the world. Canal+ is the French distributor of Disney Channels France/ FNG France and

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(with a Disney+ TV channel).

Overseas operations

Canal+ Afrique Canal+ Afrique is an African version of Canal+, available mainly in the francophone countries of Central and West Africa, as well as some non-francophone countries such as Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and Cape Verde. The Service is broadcast off t ...

Canal+ Calédonie Canal+ Calédonie, originally called Canal Satellite Nouvelle-Calédonie and CanalSat Calédonie, is a satellite provider based in the Overseas French Department of New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna, and with reduced offers in Vanuatu. It was la ...

Canal+ Caraïbes Canal+ Caraïbes is a direct broadcasting satellite service serving the French Overseas Departments of the Caribbean, as well as French Guiana. The service was launched on 1 August 1998, under the name CanalSatellite Caraibes. It is wholly owned ...

* Canal+ Réunion

References

External links

*
Official site for Switzerland
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