Starz’s global streaming service Starzplay has struck a distribution deal with France’s telco group Canal Plus. Under the pact, Starzplay content will be available on OTT to subscribers of Canal Plus ...

French pay TV group Canal Plus expects to close a $103 million deal to buy German indie distributor/producer Kinowelt early next week. The deal would see Canal Plus take full control of Kinowelt. By ...

French giant Canal Plus has confirmed last week’s media reports that it could lose up to to 500 staff as it responds to sectoral change. In a statement today the company said that it will need to ...

The first offer from Canal Plus would be to collaborate with the new Ligue 1 channel by broadcasting eight out of nine matches within a Ligue 1 gameweek, whilst co-broadcasting the headline game on ...

PARIS — Michel Denisot and Alexandre Drubigny, the duo charged with breathing new life into Canal Plus’ French pay TV channel, have been taken off the case, the Canal Plus Group said Sunday. Dominique ...

Canal Plus subsidiary M7 will use the Canal brand for its Dutch streaming service when the Vivendi-owned platform launches a major new platform in the market. From January 29, 2024, Canal+ will launch ...

Amid Canal Plus shake-up, parent company Vivendi ups stake in video games companies Ubisoft and Gameloft. New Canal Plus CEO Maxime Saada has put out a call to the French cinema world to produce more ...

PARIS — Canal Plus shareholders approved Vivendi’s $9-billion acquisition of Europe’s biggest pay-television company, the last step in the 147-year-old French utility’s make-over into the world’s No.

French antitrust authorities take back their approval, saying the pay TV giant failed to fulfill the 59 requirements it was expected to execute by 2012. By Rebecca Leffler PARIS – France’s antitrust ...

PARIS — When Pierre Lescure, the longtime head of the French pay-television provider Canal Plus, was fired in 2002, the leading lights of the French media establishment turned out in protest. The ...

Vivendi-owned pay TV group Canal Plus has signed a pact with France’s film guilds on Thursday to invest €600 million ($680 million) in French and European films from 2022 to 2024. Under the agreement, ...