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 — News Corp.’s NDS subsid Tuesday denounced a lawsuit by Canal Plus as “outrageous and baseless,” blaming the French pay-TV group’s piracy problems on inferior technology and bad management. He ...

PARIS — After a year away from the Canal Plus Group, acquisitions exec Evi Fullenbach is back in the driver’s seat as head of the paybox’s reorganized cinema department. In an appointment due to be ...

French TV giant Canal Plus Group is set to launch over 20 YouTube channels dedicated to its pay and free-to-air nets, including Canal Plus, D8 and i>Tele. Kicking off in December, YouTube users will ...

Making good on prexy Cesar Alierta’s promise to drive energetically into the content business, Spain’s giant telco Telefonica has bought up Mediaset Espana’s 22% stake in Distribuidora de Television ...

Head of cinema Nathalie Coste-Cerdan latest executive to be axed. The French cinema world is reeling after a whirlwind round of executive firings and hirings at Canal Plus ordered by its new chairman ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The decision by French pay TV operator Canal Plus to axe its 3-D channel after 18 months of ...

Gallic pay TV group Canal Plus is launching a subsidiary dedicated to the organization of athletic events and the acquisition of Occade Sport, the group said Wednesday. By Rebecca Leffler, The ...

PARIS -- French pay TV group Canal Plus saw a 7% rise in income during the first nine months of the year to 1.3 billion euros ($1.9 billion), the group said Thursday. By Rebecca Leffler, The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Al Jazeera has been awarded the majority of media rights to screen Uefa Champions League matches in France for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Chelsea swooped this summer to buy Didier Drogba, Olympique Marseille's Ivory Coast forward, for ?27m ...