About
Canal+ Group is the leading pay-TV group in France. It is France’s leading operator in premium and theme-channel publishing and in bundling and distributing pay-TV offerings. A pioneer in the new uses of television, it is also a major player in film production and distribution.
« Les Chaînes Canal+ »
Channels for every taste with "Les Chaînes Canal+"
At the core of Canal+ Group’s offering, Les Chaînes Canal+ channels offers five premium-content channels, each with its own editorial line and identity: Canal+, Canal+Cinéma, Canal+Sport, Canal+Family and Canal+Décalé. Their programs are based on exclusivity, innovation and originality.
Canal+ is a premium generalist channel offering a unique programming format with recent films on an exclusive basis, sports, news, American cult series, French fiction, documentaries, and entertainment.
Canal+ Group also publishes a range of twenty channels covering the most popular themes like films (CinéCinéma channels), sports (Sport+, InfoSport), news (i>Télé), documentaries (Planète channels), lifestyle (Cuisine TV, Seasons), series (Jimmy, Comédie!), and youth (Piwi, Télétoon).
Canal+ Group has developed widely-recognized expertise in sports coverage. Les Chaînes Canal+ cover over sixty of France’s top sports events: League 1 soccer, the main foreign championships (including the English Premier League, the Spanish Liga and the Italian Serie A), the Champions League, the Europa League, and also the Top 14, Super 14 rugby in the southern hemisphere, tennis (including Wimbledon), golf (Vivendi Trophy), boxing, and track and field events. Les Chaînes Canal+ offer an average of over 5,500 hours of sports per year, mostly live.
CanalSat
CanalSat, the leading multichannel offering
CanalSat is the leading multichannel offering in France, with over 300 channels, 60 of them exclusive. CanalSat is available by satellite, ADSL, DTT and catch-up TV.
At the leading edge of new uses of television
A pioneer of digital TV in Europe, Canal+ Group is number one in new TV practices. It is at the leading edge of pay-per-view TV, high-definition and multiscreen distribution.
HD precursor
A precursor of high-definition (HD) via satellite in France, Canal+ Group broadcasts Les Chaînes Canal+ in HD on all equipped platforms, such as satellite, cable and ADSL. CanalSat offers 19 theme channels in HD on satellite and ADSL. Canal+ and CanalSat on demand : watch when you want
CanalPlay: Legal downloading of video
CanalPlay is Canal+ Group‘s video downloading service. Available on computer and on cable, satellite, or ADSL television , it currently offers one of the largest VoD catalogs in France, with over 8,500 titles available, including over 3,500 films.
+Le Cube for design and innovation
+Le Cube is a top-of-the-line HD set-top box with an innovative design, launched in 2008. It comes with an Internet connection and a hard disk and provides access to exclusive services. Since September 2010, the Group sells an upgraded version equipped with an Internet connection via Wi-Fi.
Canal+ Group internationally
Canal+ Overseas, a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, is the largest French-speaking pay-TV operator in the French Overseas Territories and in Africa. Its offerings provide access to over 300 channels, principally in French, in the Caribbean (French Antilles and Guyana), the Indian Ocean (Reunion, Mayotte, and Mauritius), and the Pacific (New Caledonia and French Polynesia). It is also present in 30 French-speaking African countries and in Madagascar.
Canal+ Group is a major pay-TV player in Poland via its subsidiary Cyfra+, in which it has a 75% stake, which publishes the bundle of Canal+ premium channels and a bundle of over 100 TV and radio channels, 63 in Polish. Cyfra+ reported 1.5 million subscribers at end 2010. In January 2010, Canal+ Group launched K+, a new bundle of channels by satellite operated by its subsidiary VSTV in Vietnam.
StudioCanal, a major player in European cinema
StudioCanal, a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, is Europe’s leader in film production, purchase and distribution on all media, including movie theaters, video, television, and video-on-demand. It operates directly in the three largest European markets (France, the United Kingdom, and Germany). It owns the third-largest film catalog in the world, with over 5,000 French, British, Italian, German and American titles.
Stronger presence in the sports world
Canal+ Group plays a role in organizing sports events through its subsidiary Canal+ Events. Canal+ Events notably organizes the French Open tournament, the ATP tennis tournament in Montpellier, the Metz marathon, the Vivendi Trophy (France) and the European Winter X Games in Tignes. It sells the foreign broadcast rights for the French League 1 and League 2 soccer championships, the League Cup, the Top 14 in France, OM TV, the French national basketball team, and the French basketball championship.
In figures (2010)
- 12.7 million subscriptions
- 360 films broadcasted in 2010 on Canal+
- Approximately 300 channels offered on CanalSat, 60 of them exlusive
- More than 5,500 hours of sports broadcasted per year, mostly live
- More than 3,500 films avaible on VOD with CanalPlay
Management
Bertrand Meheut
Chairman of the Executive Board
Rodolphe Belmer
Executive Vice President, Content
Olivier Courson
Chairman of StudioCanal
Laurence Gallot
Executive Vice President, Communications
Joseph Guégan
Executive Vice President, Technology and Information Systems
Sophie Guieysse
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Maxime Saada
Executive Vice President, Distribution
Frédéric Mion
General Counsel
Guy Lafarge
Chairman of CanalOverseas
Julien Verley
Executive Vice President, Finance and strategy
Up date : 2011/10/05
Key figures, 2010
Revenues :
- 4,712 million euro
EBITA:
- 690 million euro
Employees:
- 4,534 employees
Last updated on Friday 20 May 2011.