Canal+ Group, also known as Groupe Canal+, is a publicly owned company headquartered in France. Founded in 1983, it employs approximately 7,840 individuals and reported $7.9B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in broadcast media production and distribution. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and maintains a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Its subsidiaries include Canal+, M7 Group, OCS (33%), and StudioCanal, and it also holds a stake of over 45% in the South African-based pay TV operator, Multichoice.
South African pay-TV broadcaster DStv, under its M-Net business, began notifying viewers on June 21, 2026, that it will close its Cine Magic channel, available on its EasyView bouquet, by the end of the month. Previously, on June 18, Burkina Faso's media regulator, the Higher Council for Communication (CSC), fined French multimedia group Canal+ 50 million CFA francs (€76,200). The fine was imposed because the company allegedly failed to provide free access to national television channels for its subscribers in the country. Earlier, on June 17, MultiChoice, a CANAL+ company, launched two Novelas+ channels in English and Portuguese, dedicated entirely to telenovelas. These new channels expand on the existing Novelas TV, which ranks as the top channel in French-speaking Africa by audience size. This follows Canal+'s action on June 15 to cut approximately 655 jobs within MultiChoice's African operations through a voluntary severance program, marking the initial visible sign of the French media giant's restructuring plans for the DStv owner it acquired last year. MultiChoice confirmed that over 300 employees in South Africa participated in this program.
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