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Canal Plus
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Unpacking sub-Saharan Africa’s pay-TV growth & OTT potential
With pay-TV subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa growing in 2022, Omdia’s research analyst Samuel Nkwam reveals…
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Round-up: Amazon brings the arts to UK subs; Terranoa to shop ‘Moochie’; TVF closes Asia sales
Amazon brings the arts to UK subs Amazon Prime Video has partnered with the UK’s…
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Canal + to shutter CanalPlay amid Netflix competition
Restrictive rules governing the distribution of content will kill off French fiction in the international…
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Sub-Saharan pay TV set to boom
The number of pay TV customers in Sub-Saharan Africa will almost double between 2016 and…
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Commission starts TV rights probe
Formal antitrust proceedings to examine programming agreements between US studios and European pay TV broadcasters…
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Lagardere boss moots Canal Plus acquisition
Lagardère boss Arnaud Lagardère has said he could be prepared to buy the 80% of…
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Channel 4 buys French drama Rebound
Channel 4 has picked up hit French-language drama Rebound. It marks the first time in…
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Rastamouse speaks to kids in any language
Greg Boardman, producer, Three Stones Media, talks about getting its hit show ready for international…
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Canal+’s Belmer speaks against change to SVOD window
Canal+ chief Rodolphe Belmer has spoken out against any significant changes to the ordering of…
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Court rejects Canal+ case against competition watchdog
France’s constitutional court has rejected Canal+’s claims that the country’s competition regulator acted unconstitutionally when…
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Canal Plus agrees to new conditions to secure FTA channels
Canal Plus has finally secured a green light from the CSA for its takeover of…