Canal+ Group

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Groupe Canal+ SA
Type Private
Founded 1983
Headquarters Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
Key people Bertrand Meheut (President & CEO)
Rodolphe Belmer (Deputy CEO)
Industry Media
Products Pay TV
Television production
Film production & distribution
Revenue €3.580 billion (2004)
Parent Vivendi SA
Website http://www.canalplusgroup.com

Canal Plus Group (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi has sold some parts of Canal Plus to private investors which are still using the name of Canal Plus. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.

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In the Netherlands, Poland, France and Spain the flagship product is a television channel, Canal+. The channel is encrypted for most of the day (except in Spain); viewers who wish to watch the channel's more popular programming (new-release movies and live sport) must subscribe to the service. Previously this involved the hire of a decoder to decrypt the signal, but increasingly Canal+ is being offered as part of a multi-channel satellite or cable television package (known as CanalSat[previously Canal Satellite]in France and Digital+ in Spain).

Canal Plus came to the Nordic countries in 1997, acquiring the two FilmNet-channels and renaming them. The Nordic part was sold in October 2003 and the Canal+ brand is since then used with license.

Main article: StudioCanal

Main article: CanalSat

Formerly Canal Satellite Numérique, a pay satellite and ADSL television distributor (as CanalSAT DSL).

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