Past operations Movie Network, an Australian premium television service launched in 1995, was founded as a partnership between Canal+,
HBO (a subsidiary of
Time Warner),
The Walt Disney Company,
MGM/
UA and
Village Roadshow. A few years later, Canal+ dropped out of the partnership. Canal Plus was the first cable TV channel to operate in Brazil, in 1989. It operated on the
MMDS system and broadcast part of
ESPN programming. Its Brazilian operations were sold to
Grupo Abril in 1991.
Canal+ International is a subsidiary of the group. By 31 December 2023, it had 6.6 million subscribers in over 50 countries across Africa, Europe,
Asia-Pacific, and French Overseas Territories in
the Caribbean and Indian Ocean regions. , Canal+ International also produces over 100 channels for international distribution. On 15 November 2017,
Quebec cable system
Videotron began carrying Canal+ International, marking it the first provider to carry the channel. It is also the second attempt at making Canal+ available in Canada since the former paid Canal+ Canada channel on
Dailymotion, launched in 2013. As of August 2018, Canal+ International is on U.S. satellite provider
DirecTV in HD on channel 2010.
Africa Canal+ Afrique was launched as Canal+ Horizons By the end of 2023, it had 8.1 million subscribers. The Canal+ Group has other activities in Africa as well as the Canal+ Afrique service; by 2018, the whole group's offerings including over 200 channels, radio stations, and other services, while the Canal+ Afrique's platform offered more than 50 channels. On 10 May 2024, the Canal+ Group bought 200 million shares (45.2% of the capital) in the South African subscription provider
MultiChoice, which, with 20 million subscribers, is the market leader in English and
Portuguese-speaking Africa with a mandatory offer to acquire remaining shares. Their main competitor on the continent is the Chinese-owned
StarTimes; however, estimated audience shares by 2028 are 32 million for Canal+/MultiChoice and 19 million for StarTimes. After 3 years, Canal+ Ethiopia was shut down by the end of 2024. In May 2025, the South African
Competition Commission recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the proposed full takeover of
MultiChoice by Canal+, provided certain conditions were met. The takeover became effective in September 2025, and is valued at over $2.5 billion.
Europe As mentioned above, Canal+ expanded into several European companies in the 1990s,
FilmNet in the Netherlands was rebranded as Canal+ in 1997. In 2005, the channels were bought by
Liberty Global and renamed
Sport1 and
Film1 in February 2006. Sport1 changed its name to
Ziggo Sport Totaal in November 2015, Film1 was sold to
Sony Pictures Television in the same year. In April 2019 was announced by Sony that Film1 would close on 1 August 2019; however, it was sold to
SPI International instead, which was fully acquired by Canal+ in August 2023. Canal+ was reintroduced in Netherlands as a streaming service on 20 January 2024. Canal+ Luxembourg (former
M7 Group) is a Luxembourg-based television provider which operates several
direct broadcast satellite pay TV platforms: HD Austria in
Austria,
Télésat in Belgium and Luxembourg,
TV Vlaanderen in the
Flanders region in
Belgium,
Skylink in
Czech Republic and
Slovakia,
Canal Digitaal in the
Netherlands,
Focus Sat in
Romania, and Direct One in
Hungary. It also operates a terrestrial pay television platform in Flanders, Belgium and offers B2B multimedia services. Canal+ acquired M7 Group for 1.1 billion euros on 12 September 2019. Past involvement in European services include: •
Canal+ Spain, later known as
#0 was launched in 1990 in Spain by
Sogecable as an analogue pay channel, similar to the French and Polish version. In 2015 the largest Spanish telecommunications company
Telefónica received the approval and closed the acquisition of Canal+ Spain alongside its
satellite TV platform, now renamed
Movistar Plus+. • Canal+ Flanders, became Canal+ when
FilmNet was bought. Later sold and is now known as
Play More (
Telenet, a subsidiary of Liberty Global). • Canal+ Belgique became
BeTV when Vivendi sold the service in 2004. •
Canal+ Scandinavia, launched as Canal+ in 1997 with the integration of the
FilmNet channels. The company was sold and renamed
C More Entertainment, although the brand Canal+ was still used. It was purchased by the
SBS Broadcasting Group in 2005, which was merged with
ProSiebenSat.1 Media in 2007. In 2008, an agreement was made to sell the channels to
TV4 Group. Since 2012, it has been called C More. •
Tele+ Digitale, the Italian branch sold in 2003 to
News Corp. and fused with
Stream TV, the direct competitor. Later, it became
Sky Italia and is owned by
Sky Group (a subsidiary of
Comcast). •
Premiere, a German premium television channel and platform launched in 1990, was founded by Canal+,
Bertelsmann and
Kirch. A few years later, Canal+ sold its share of Premiere. It later became
Sky Deutschland and is owned by Sky Group (a subsidiary of Comcast). The event went as far as to include French commercials, dubed over in Russian.
Asia-Pacific In May 2009,
K+ founded by Canal+ and
VTV was launched. K+ brings national level satellite TV service and OTT service to Vietnamese households, offering five premium and exclusive channels, up to 170 SD channels and HD channels across genres: sports (including the
Premier League), movies, general entertainment, news, music, and documentaries.
Canal+ Myanmar, originally launched by
Forever Group as 4TV in 2006, became a joint venture with Canal+ Group in 2017. Canal+ has been operating in Myanmar in collaboration with Forever since 2018. In June 2023, Canal+ partnered with
PCCW to expand the streaming service
Viu, which serves Asia and the Middle East, and in February 2024, Canal+ increased its stake in Viu to 30%. Also in 2023, CANAL+ also partnered with the Onati group to broadcast its content in
Polynesia.
French Overseas Territories Canal+ Group has 800,000 subscribers in the
French Overseas Territories, with Canal+ International's subsidiaries operating in the Caribbean (
Antilles,
French Guiana, and
Haiti); the Indian Ocean (
Réunion,
Mayotte, and
Mauritius) and the Pacific (
New Caledonia,
Wallis and Futuna, and
French Polynesia). ==Channels in France==