Canal+ Group is a French based pay-tv provider operated by Vivendi that distribute various films, series and TV channels. Not long ago, Canal+ had been granted permission to acquire remaining shares in MultiChoice after owning at least 45% of the company.
Formerly serving as a rival to MultiChoice's endeavors within the African market. Canal+ comes with its own pay-tv platforms for consumers within Francophone Africa particularly Ghana, Ethopia, Ivory Coast and Niger.
Similar to DStv, the content seen on these packages vary immensely depending on the region. If DStv was looking to integrate with Canal+ questions amount to how the French broadcaster intends to do such.
The first known as Canal+ Afrique offers brands like Africa Magic Epic, SuperSport La Liga and Zee World while Canal+ Ethopia offers Telemundo, Star Life and KIX. All of which are on DStv and should a merger occur this could lead to less channels.
Both packages offer Canal+ Cinema with the elephant in the room for Afrique being M-Net Movies with FilmBox in Ethopia. Seeing as Canal+ would acquire MultiChoice they'd probably merge M-Net Movies with Canal+ Cinema and maybe remove some FilmBox brands.
The other thing would be pricing as you'd seen cases where channels like BBC Earth would be viewable to consumers in South Africa. This is a channel which is distributed in the United Kingdom, Australia, Turkey, Asia and Latin America.
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