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French subscription satellite and cable provider
Canal+
, established as
Canalsatellite
in 1992, is a French
subscription TV
provider associated with the
channel of the same name
. It is owned by
Vivendi
(owner of
Groupe Canal+
) with a hundred percent share.
History
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Digital satellite provider CanalSatellite was launched as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canal+ on 6 December 1991.
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The shareholders were
Canal+ Group
(66 percent) and Lagardere Active (34 percent), a subsidiary of
Lagardere
.
On 27 April 1996, Canalsatellite launched as a digital satellite platform, which was the first in Europe.
In late 2005, Canal+ acquired its competitor TPS.
On 15 November 2016, Canalsatellite was rebranded as Canal.
In 2017, Canal lost
Discovery
and
NBCUniversal
channels, recovered by
SFR
. Canal replaced them by exclusive newly-launched channels:
Warner TV
, Polar+,
Viceland
, and Novelas TV.
On 1 August 2019, Canal was renamed Canal+ to bring the same name all around the world.
Overseas operations
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| Directors
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| Groupe Canal+
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| Vivendi Ticketing
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- Digitick
- Vivendi Village
- MyBestPro
- Watchever
- L’Olympia
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| Prisma Media
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| Havas
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