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Canal+ secures Premier League, but trouble brewing on LFP front
Canal+ has secured exclusive rights to English Premier League football for a further three seasons….
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Orange unit invests in media and SVOD outfit Brut
Orange Ventures, Orange’s venture capital investment subsidiary, is investing in youth-focused media company Brut. Orange…
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Alchimie launches 100th channel
OTT subscription video platform Alchimie has launched its 100th channel with pointdevue.tv, an SVOD channel dedicated…
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Altice Media launches new AVOD and streaming platform
Altice Media has launched a new AVOD and live streaming offering with free on-demand, catch-up…
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Altice’s Weill to leave the company on July 1
Altice France, SFR and Altice Media CEO Alain Weill is to leave the company on…
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Streamers to allocate 20-25% to content creation under new French rules
Streamers such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ will be forced to allocate between 20-25% of…
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TF1 gears up for M6 acquisition with management reorganisation
France’s TF1 is to reorganise its distribution and digital leadership following the appointment of distribution…
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Free signs new distribution deal with TF1
French service provider Free has signed a new distribution agreement with commercial broadcaster TF1, which…
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Amazon ‘poised to make offer’ for Ligue 1 rights
Amazon is set to make a “credible” offer for the French Ligue 1 football rights…
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Free extends its fibre reach with TDF agreement
French service provider Free is to commercialise its service offerings via the networks operated by…
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Pluto TV France strikes deal with Mediawan, adds 10 channels
ViacomCBS-owned AVOD service Pluto TV is to add 10 new channels to its French offering,…
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French streamer BrutX begins international rollout
French streaming service BrutX has launched in Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The international expansion of…
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Thema adds four new channels to SFR’s African offering
Canal+ International-owned channel distributor Thema has launched four new channels as part of service provider…
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Vivendi and Mediaset declare peace
Vivendi and Mediaset have announced an agreement to end hostilities, putting an end to five…
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Bouygues Telecom teams up with NRJ for addressable ads
French service provider Bouygues Telecom has struck an addressable advertising agreement with NRJ Global that…
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Canal+ sees stable revenues in quarter of modest progress
French pay TV operator Canal+ saw its revenues for the quarter to March remain stable…
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Mixed fortunes for Orange TV: growth in France, decline in Spain
Orange had 10.437 million TV customers as of the end of March, out of 21.9…
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Italian court rejects Mediaset damages claim
Vivendi has achieved a partial victory on one front of its ongoing legal battle with…
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Salto arrives on digital-terrestrial platform
Salto, the streaming JV between French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 and public broadcaster France…
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European Commission takes issue with planned French SVOD rules
The European Commission has expressed reservations about France’s plans to implement in national law new…
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Conseil d’Etat forces change to French plan to protect access to audiovisual works
France’s Conseil d’Etat has nixed a government plan to require regulatory authorisation for the sale…
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New youth-oriented SVOD BrutX launches in France
Brut, the youth-oriented French media outfit created five years ago by Studio Bagel founder Guillaume…
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Salto and Arte heading for digital-terrestrial platform
French streaming service Salto will soon be available via the country’s connected digital-terrestrial devices, according…
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Altice Media launches first addressable ad campaigns
Altice Media has launched the first addressable advertising campaigns to its user base in France….
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France’s rugby league issues call to tender for media rights
France’s professional rugby football body, the LNR, last week launched an invitation to tender for…
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Orange to sell 50% stake in rural areas FTTH networks
Orange has agreed to sell a 50% stake in its rural fibre infrastructure arm, creating…
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Report: Salto edges up to 200k subs after three months
Salto, the French subscription video-on-demand service launched last year as a JV between the country’s…
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Canal+ taking legal action over football auction move
French pay TV operator Canal+ is taking legal action against the country’s professional football body,…
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Canal+ calls for new bidding process for Ligue 1 rights
Pay TV operator Canal+ has called for a new auction of French Ligue 1 football…
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Vivendi secures full voting rights in Mediaset
Vivendi secured another significant victory in its battle with Mediaset just before Christmas, with the…