Michel Combes


Drahi steps in as Altice CEO resigns

Michel Combes has resigned as Altice chairman and CEO following the company’s worse-than-expected quarterly results last week. Altice’s share price sank by a over a quarter following the results that highlighted a poor performance by French unit SFR in particular and spooked investors concerned about the company’s debt level. With Combes having fallen on his […]

Netflix creates global partnership with Altice

Altice has agreed a multi-year partnership with Netflix to make the SVOD giant’s content available to its customers around the world. The multi-year partnership will make Netflix available to Altice customers on “all eligible devices” in France, Portugal, Israel and the Dominican Republic. France will be the first Altice territory to launch Netflix, with promotional […]

Altice to coproduce Sky’s Riviera

Groupe Altice’s push into high-end original drama has seen it become a coproducer of Sky’s Côte d’Azur-set crime drama Riviera. Altice Studios was established last year after French free and pay TV operator Altice bought into SFR Media, and the firm has now joined the coproduction slate for Riviera, along with distributor Sky Vision. The […]

SFR wants full control of French channels group

Altice Group-owned French service provider SFR has filed a plan with media regulator the CSA to take exclusive control of NextRadioTV. SFR said that the move represented a new stage in its strategic partnership with NextRadioTV, following its deal with the TV and radio channel provider in 2015. The operator said the decision to move […]

Former Canal+ boss Meheut joining SFR

Bertrand Méheut, the former CEO of Canal+, is to join cable and telecom group Altice’s French unit SFR as vice-president of the group’s administrative council. In a move that reinforces Altice and SFR’s strategic move towards becoming an integrated media and telecoms company, Méheut is taking on a new role under SFR Group CEO Michel […]

Altice content chief resigns

Altice Media Group president Bernard Mourad has resigned, reportedly to take on the role of campaign director for would-be French presidential candidate and former economy minister Emmanuel Macron. Mourad, in addition to his Altice role, was recently named deputy CEO of SFR Media, the closely related media unit of the French service provider majority-owned byAltice, […]

Altice boss steps down

Altice boss Patrick Drahi has stepped down from his role as president of the company in favour of former CEO Dexter Goei ahead of the group’s acquisition of Cablevision in the US. Goei will take over the new US operation as chairman and CEO of Altice USA, in addition to his role as president of […]

Shine exec joins France’s Altice

Cable and telecom investor Altice has named Nora Melhli as head of original creation and non-linear content, including Zive, the SVOD service that is currently from French operator SFR. Mehli is the former head of drama at production company Shine France and an ex-CEO of Endemol Fiction. While at Shine France Films, she executive-produced UK-French […]