Jean-René Aucouturier


Canal+ hires channels veteran from Lagardère

French pay TV firm Canal+ has hired Gérald-Brice Viret as its managing director of channels, recruiting the seasoned exec from rival Lagardère. Viret (pictured) has run numerous digital channels in France, and also headed up the local cross-industry digital terrestrial group as DTT rolled out in the country. He joins Canal+ from Lagardère’s channels unit […]

News brief: Asian launch for Lagardère’s Mezzo

Lagardère Active’s classical music channel Mezzo Live HD will launch in the Philippines after securing carriage on the SkyCable and its affiliate Destiny Cable platforms in the country. The channel is distributed in Asia by Lightning International, which struck the Filipino deal, the first for the channel in the country. Earlier this year it launched […]