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Canal+
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Altice wins Discovery, NBCU nets from Canal+
In a significant ramping up of its strategy to compete head on with French pay…
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Viacom’s Bakish ‘eyes Vice stake’
New Viacom boss Bob Bakish is interested in buying into Vice, the millennial-focused media company….
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Canal+ begins touting revamped offering
Canal+ Group is moving ahead with the relaunch of its domestic French pay TV services…
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New Canal+ mobile TV service set for 20 countries
Canal+ has launched its vaunted premium TV-over-mobile service Studio+ in France, and said it will…
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Canal+ inks international Disney deal
Canal+ has inked a deal with Disney and will get first and second window rights…
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Broadcaster streaming services beat Netflix, Amazon
Streaming services from broadcasters and pay TV operators are giving Netflix and Amazon Prime Video…
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Former Canal+ boss Meheut joining SFR
Bertrand Méheut, the former CEO of Canal+, is to join cable and telecom group Altice’s…
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Canal+ outlines plan to rebuild French business
Canal+ has much work to do in France, and the pay TV group is rejigging…
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Vice’s first non-English channel rolls next week
The French version of Viceland will launch on November 23, marking the first time the…
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Breton’s Federation adds distribution exec
France-based producer and distributor Federation Entertainment has hired Leyla Formoso to head up its drama…
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Canal+ suffers further subs, revenue losses
Strong revenue growth in Africa helped to partially offset a continued precipitous decline in pay…
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iTélé dispute over controversial host continues
Canal+-owned news channel iTélé’s management have produced a new offer aimed at staff wishing to…
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Non Stop gets Connick Jr., new Canal+ deal
French celebrity news channel Non Stop People has renewed its carriage deal with Canal+ and…
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Vivendi, Canal+ join the eSports game
Vivendi has struck a major strategic partnership deal with eSports group ESL that will see…
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Canal+ buys Argentinian drama
French pay TV provider Canal+ has acquired Argentinian drama El Marginal from Israel-based Dori Media…
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Couture and Got get top France Télévisions jobs
France Télévisions has appointed former TF1, Canal+ and Orange content boss Xavier Couture as deputy…
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Disney and Nick buy Bing Bunny
Preschool toon series Bing Bunny has been acquired by several big name broadcasters and kids…
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New German VOD net buys NRK drama
A new German VOD platform, Canal+’s SVOD service in France and Channel 4’s Walter Presents…
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Canal+ cuts premium pricing
Canal+ is cutting the price of its premium channel, introducing subscriptions with no fixed commitment…
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Nebout’s indie developing Swedish thriller for TV
Patrick Nebout’s Dramacorp is developing Swedish novelist Jan Guilou’s Hamilton books for television. Hamilton will…
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Canal+ loses subs, programme budget cut
French pay TV operator Canal+ continued to lose domestic subscribers during the first half, with…
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C More anoints Young Pope
Scandinavian pay TV operator and SVOD provider C More has acquired local rights to big…
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Canal+ name to go as Telefónica rebrands nets
Telefónica is rebranding its Spanish Canal+ channels in a move that will see the Canal+…
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Thuillier to top TF1 news net
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has named Thierry Thuillier as CEO of its news channel LCI….
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Lagardère creates female-focused network
French media group Lagardère is to launch a new female-focused channel, Elle Girl. The entertainment…
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Tellenbach out at TVN, Samples takes charge
Media veteran Markus Tellenbach is leaving his post as president and CEO of Polish media…
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Lescure’s French streaming service goes live
French over-the-top service Molotov has launched publicly across the country on a freemium basis, a…
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Canal+ takes Kissman stake
French commercial broadcaster Canal+ has taken a 50% stake in Kissman Production Group. Kissman is…
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Saada slams Canal+ strike action
A strike by staff at Canal+ news channel iTele has spread to the broadcaster’s main…
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Canal+ rejigs channels around ‘galaxy’ plan
Canal+ has revamped its programming offering with the launch of a ‘Canal+ galaxy’ centred on…