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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 headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris. The '' Wall Street Journal'' described Canal+ as "the French film industry's biggest financial backer, beloved by French cineastes". It is a major source of finance for domestic film production, participating in the financing of the vast majority of films produced in France. It also has its own subsidiary companies with direct involvement in film production. StudioCanal, one of those subsidiaries, announced in 2011 that it would now 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 financed by the studio.


Corporate divisions

* Canal+ – premium TV channel (Metropolitan France, Caribbean, Africa, Southern Pacific, Indian Ocean, Asia) **
Canal+ Cinéma Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or river engineering, engineered channel (geography), channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport watercraft, vehicles (e.g. ...
– premium TV channel devoted to movies ** Canal+ Sport – premium TV channel devoted to sports programmes **
Canal+ kids Canal+ Family was a French TV channel devoted to the broadcast of family programming. It is part of the "Les Chaînes Canal+" and the "Famille" package from Canal+. Canal+ Family had an African version, on channel 6 from Canal+ Afrique. His ...
– premium TV channel devoted to family programming ** CANAL+ docs **Canal+ grand ecran **Canal+ Foot **
Canal+ Séries Canal+ Séries is a French TV channel devoted to programming series. It is part of the ''Les Chaînes Canal+'' or the ''Ciné-Séries'' package of Canal+. The channel does not broadcast advertising. The channel broadcasts many shows a few day ...
– premium TV channel devoted to series **
Canal+ Sport 360 Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...
– premium TV channel, delayed broadcast of Sport from Canal+ **
Ciné+ Ciné+ is a set of thematic pay television channels broadcasting movies. They are published by MultiThématiques (Canal+ Group) and are distributed by the CanalSat satellite TV as well as cable and ADSL via Numericable CANALSATDSL. Channels broa ...
– set of six thematic cable television channels ** Clique TV – cable TV channel **
Comédie+ Comédie+ (formerly Comédie!) is a French cable network showing humorous programs since 1997. It bears some resemblance to Comedy Central; even the ''comédie'' word in the name is used in the very broad American meaning. It is directed by Domi ...
(formerly Comédie!) – cable TV channel devoted to humorous programs ** CStar Hits France – cable TV channel devoted to musical programs ** Foot+ – cable TV channel devoted to football ** Rugby+ – cable TV channel devoted to rugby football ** Golf+ – cable TV channel devoted to golf ** Infosport+ – cable TV news channel devoted to sports ** Piwi+ (formerly Piwi) – cable TV channel devoted to children programs ** Planète+ – cable TV channel devoted to documentaries ** Planète+ adventure – cable TV channel devoted to documentaries from A&E Networks channels ** Planète+ crime– cable TV channel devoted to crime documentaries ** Polar+ – cable TV channel devoted to movies ** Seasons – cable TV channel devoted to documentaries ** Télétoon+ (formerly Télétoon) – cable TV channel devoted to animation **
Teletoon+ Teletoon+ (stylised as teleToON+; formerly Minimax and ZigZap) is a Polish television channel owned and operated by the Canal+ Group through ITI Neovision SA, available on Platforma Canal+. The channel aims at young people in the age group of 10 ...
(formerly Minimax/ZigZap) – cable TV channel devoted to animation broadcast in Poland **
MiniMini+ MiniMini+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by ITI Neovision SA. Its programmes are aimed primarily at children aged 3–8. History Before the launch of MiniMini, Minimax (now known as Teletoon+) launched a programming bloc ...
(formerly MiniMini) – cable TV channel devoted to animated series for children from 3 to 8 years ** CNews (formerly i>Télé) – free-to-air news channel ** C8 – free-to-air channel **
CStar CStar () is a private national French TV channel, owned by Canal+ Group. History D17 was launched on 7 October 2012, replacing Direct Star, after Canal+ bought it to Bolloré Group. D17 was rebranded CStar on 5 September 2016. Since 27 Fe ...
– free-to-air channel devoted to musical programs ** MyCanal – free streaming service for Canal+ subscribers to stream the channel's programming live and on-demand ** CanalPlay – on-demand service ** Canal+ International – international French premium channel featuring programming from Canal+ and its various other channels * Canal+ Régie – advertising network for the group channel's and the cinema operator UGC * Canal+ (provider) – satellite TV provider * M7 Group – television service provider based in Luxembourg ** Canal Digitaal (Netherlands) ** Direct One (Hungary) ** Focus Sat (Romania) ** HD Austria (Austria) ** Online.nl (Netherlands) ** Skylink (Czech Republic, Slovakia) ** Télésat (Belgium, Luxembourg) ** TV Vlaanderen (Flanders region in Belgium) * StudioCanal – film producer and distributor ** StudioCanal Home Entertainment (North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland) ** SAM Productions ApS (Scandinavian) ** Arthaus (Germany) ** Red Production Company (United Kingdom) ** Tandem Productions (Germany) * SPI International ** Dizi **
Film1 ''Film1'' is a Dutch premium television and video on demand service that replaced Canal+ and is owned by SPI International (previously owned by Liberty Global and Sony Pictures Television). Background The service launched with three channels an ...
**
FilmBox MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation software produced by Autodesk. It is used for virtual cinematography, motion capture, and traditional keyframe animation. It was originally named Filmbox when it was first created by Canadian company Kay ...
**
Kino Polska Kino Polska is a television channel which broadcasts Polish movies and series. For a while, the TV station aired Polish animated shows including '' Hip-Hip and Hurra'', which made its debut there. References External links * Televisi ...
** MediaBox Broadcasting International - themed television channels such as
DocuBox ''DocuBox'' is a European premium television channel and video on demand service owned by SPI International, a division of Canal+ Group Groupe Canal+ is a French mass media company. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and has a film library ...
, FashionBox, FightBox and FunBox. **
Stopklatka.pl Stopklatka.pl is the oldest Polish film website which provides information about films, television programmes, actors, actresses etc. The website was created in August 1996, however, the story of Stopklatka began as early as in October 1986, ...
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Zoom TV Zoom TV may refer to: * Zoom (Israeli TV channel) * Zoom (Ukrainian TV channel) * Zoom (Indian TV channel) * Zoom TV (Poland) Zoom TV is a Polish television channel, launched on October 25, 2016. Programming On the programming schedule cons ...
Formers Channels
Canal+ Hi-Tech Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...
Canal+ Family Canal+ Family was a French TV channel devoted to the broadcast of family programming. It is part of the "Les Chaînes Canal+" and the "Famille" package from Canal+. Canal+ Family had an African version, on channel 6 from Canal+ Afrique. Histo ...
Canal+ Decale Canal+ 3D


Canal+

Canal+ has operations in France, Poland, Vietnam and Myanmar, Rwanda and other world nations not yet listed through its flagship brand Canal+. 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 increasingly Canal+ is being offered as part of a multi-channel satellite or cable television package (known as CanalSat in France.).


Former operations

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 Abril Grupo Abril (simply also known as Abril) is a Brazilian media conglomerate headquartered in São Paulo. The company is the holding company of Editora Abril, which publishes the weekly newsmagazine ''Veja.'' History and profile Victor Civita, an ...
in 1991. Canal Plus came to the Nordic countries in 1997, acquiring the two FilmNet-channels and renaming them. The Nordic part was sold in October 2003 to the
Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...
-owned Canal Digital, and the Canal+ brand was used under license until 2012, when the channels were re-branded C More Entertainment. Canal+ has previously also been present in several other European countries; but as of 2016 it is only active in Poland and France. Canal+ Hi-Tech was a private television channel in France dedicated to the broadcasting of films in 16:9 aspect ratio and HDTV ''Canal+ 16/9'' changed its name to ''Canal+ Hi-Tech'' in March 2005. Through this change, the channel offered the latest technological advances in terms of image and sound, especially with high-definition programs. The channel was deleted when switching Canal+ to the 16:9 format. ''Canal+ 3D'' was born on June 10, 2010, to broadcast some matches of the
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in 3D. It regularly broadcast films or sporting events of Canal+ in
stereoscopic Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the depth perception, illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. The word ''stereoscopy'' derives . Any stere ...
3D format. It stopped broadcasting on January 24, 2012.


StudioCanal

StudioCanal is a production company created in 1999, 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.


Canal+ (provider)

Formerly Canal Satellite Numérique, a pay satellite and IPTV distributor (as CanalSAT DSL). Canal+ is a satellite TV package launched in 1992. A merger between CanalSat and
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started in 2007, and finally canceled by the Competition Authority in 2011. With Canal+, the utilization of the card pairing (QEV) technology allow access to many channels such as, Eurosport,
Paris Premiere Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Sin ...
or LCI.


M7 Group

M7 Group 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 Flanders region in Belgium, Skylink in Czech Republic and Slovakia, Canal Digitaal in the Netherlands, Focus Sat in Romania, and Direct One in Hungary. It also operates a terrestrial pay television platform in Flanders, Belgium and offers B2B multimedia services. Canal+ acquired M7 Group for 1.1 billion euros on 12 September 2019.


Thema

Thema is a Canal+ Group company that oversees distribution of Pay TV services in various countries, and is the parent company of channels including
Novelas TV Novelas TV is an African thematic television channel dedicated to telenovelas broadcasts since 24 March 2015 through ''Les Bouquets Canal+''. It has been available in the Metropolitan France area since 26 September 2017. Programming *''Corazón v ...
and Nollywood TV. Thema was founded in 2005 by François Thiellet, and acquired by Canal+ in 2014.


International versions

As Canal+ was launched in new markets the brand has been used in several countries. When launching additional channels the channels were usually given colour-coded names, such as Canal+ Blue, Canal+ Green, Canal+ Yellow and Canal+ Red. Many of these subsidiaries have been sold and as of 2016, only the Polish Canal+ is partially owned by French Canal+. * Canal+ Spain, now known as #0. Launched in 1990 in Spain by Sogecable as an analogue pay channel, similar to the French and Polish version. In 2015 The largest Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica received the approved and closed the acquisition of Canal+, now renamed Movistar+. *Canal+ Flanders, became Canal+ when FilmNet was bought. Later sold and is now known as Play More ( Telenet, a subsidiary of Liberty Global). *Canal+ Belgium, now known as BeTV. It shares many common programs with the French channels. It is owned by VOO, a public telco in Wallonia. *Canal+ Netherlands, Filmnet was rebranded as Canal+ in 1997. Canal+ sold the channels later on. In 2005, the channels were bought by
Liberty Global Liberty Global plc is a British-Dutch-American multinational telecommunications company with headquarters in London, Amsterdam and Denver. Its respective legal names are Liberty Global Plc, Liberty Global B.V. and Liberty Global, Inc., with ...
and renamed them to
Sport1 Sport1 may refer to the following TV channels: * Sport1 (Eastern Europe) * Sport1 (Germany) * Sport1 (Lithuania) * Sport1 (Netherlands), now Ziggo Sport Totaal * Sport 1 (Russian TV channel) Match! Arena ( rus, Матч! Арена), formerly ...
and
Film1 ''Film1'' is a Dutch premium television and video on demand service that replaced Canal+ and is owned by SPI International (previously owned by Liberty Global and Sony Pictures Television). Background The service launched with three channels an ...
in February 2006. Sport1 changed its name to
Ziggo Sport Totaal Ziggo Sport Totaal is a Dutch premium television service operated by Ziggo and owned by VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture between Liberty Global and Vodafone. Ziggo Sport Totaal launched as Sport1 with its sister service Film1 on 1 February 2006 ...
in November 2015, Film1 was sold to Sony Pictures Television in the same year.SONY PICTURES TELEVISION CLOSES FILM1 DEAL
Sonypicturestelevision.com, Retrieved on July 26, 2015
On 1 May 2019, Sony announced that Film1 would close on 1 August 2019. However it was sold to SPI International instead. * Canal+ Poland, the channel is called Canal+ Premium, the satellite platform CANAL+ Polska * Canal+ Scandinavia, launched as Canal+ in 1997 with the integration of the FilmNet channels. The company was sold and renamed C More Entertainment, although the brand Canal+ was still used. It was purchased by the
SBS Broadcasting Group SBS Broadcasting Group (SBS), formerly Scandinavian Broadcasting Systems, was a European multinational media group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Northern, Western and Cen ...
in 2005, which was merged with
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in 2007. In 2008, an agreement was made to sell the channels to TV4 Group. Since 2012 it is called C More. *
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, the Italian branch sold in 2003 to News Corp. and fused with
Stream TV Stream TV was an Italian digital satellite television pay TV company launched in 1993 and closed in 2003, due to the merge with TELE+ into Sky Italia. History Stream S.P.A. was the service provider, a television company owned by STET. It wa ...
, the direct competitor. Now, it is called Sky Italia. *
Premiere A première, also spelled premiere, is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first ...
, a German premium television channel and platform launched in 1990, was founded by Canal+,
Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...
and Kirch. A few years later, Canal+ sold its share of Premiere. It is now known as Sky Deutschland and is owned by the UK's
Sky plc Sky Group Limited is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate, which is a division of Comcast, and headquartered in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe's l ...
. * Movie Network, an Australian premium television service launched in 1995, was founded as a partnership between Canal+,
HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...
(a subsidiary of Time Warner), The Walt Disney Company, MGM/ UA and Village Roadshow. A few years later, Canal+ dropped out from the partnership. *Canal+ Brazil, a Brazilian version created in 1989, not the own version, retransmission of American ESPN. Ended transmissions due to launch of the Brazil cable providers in 1991. *In May 2009, K+ founded by Canal+ and VTV was launched. K+ brings national level satellite TV service and OTT service to Vietnamese households, offering five premium and exclusive channels, up to 170 SD channels and HD channels across genres: sports, movies, general entertainment, news, music, and documentaries. *Canal+ Afrique, launched as Canal Horizons in 1990, is the channel in Africa. * Canal+ Myanmar, originally launched by Forever Group as 4TV in 2006, it became a joint venture with Canal+ Group in 2017, and was rebranded as Canal+ in February 2018. *
Canal+ Ethiopia Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...
, launched in 2021.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Canal+ Group Mass media companies established in 1983 Television production companies of France Film production companies of France Television networks in France French-language television networks Vivendi subsidiaries Mass media in Paris