Canal+ Thématiques
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| Industry | thematic channel publishing  |
| Founded | August 1, 1988 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Michel Denisot (president and CEO) |
| Parent | Canal+ Group |
| Website | www |
Canal+ Thématiques (formerly Ellipse Câble and later MultiThématiques)[1] is a French company created in 1988, that publishes thematic television channels broadcast by cable and by satellite on the Canal+ satellite provider. The president and CEO of the company is Michel Denisot.
History
[edit]MultiThématiques is 100% owned by Canal+ France. 20% by Lagardère Group and 80% by Canal+ Group, which themselves are subsidiary of Vivendi.[2]
On November 29 1995, Canal+ rebranded its cable television provider subsidiary Ellipse Câble as a joint venture between them, American cable operating company Tele-Communications Inc. and Générale d'Images to MultiThématiques when the former announced a joint venture cable television business to develop its own channels internationally.[3]
In November 2000, Eurochannel was acquired by Multithematiques Inc, the short-lived American subsidiary of the French company of the same name, from April, for the sum of $8 million.[4] Its CEO Michel Thoulouze had high hopes following the buying, in an attempt to "reawaken taste" for European content and culture. Under new ownership, Eurochannel expanded to Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America on February 1, 2002, with a soft launch in Mexico a few days earlier on January 21.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Rapport financier et États financiers consolidés audités de l'exercice clos le 31 décembre 2020" (PDF). www.vivendi.com. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
transl. Multithématiques S.A.S was merged into Planète Cable S.A.S. The entity resulting from this operation bears the name of Canal+ Thématiques S.A.S as of December 31, 2020
- ↑ "European Commission: Vivendi Authorised to Increase Stake in Multithématiques". Archived from the original on 2004-08-18. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ↑ "TCI, Canal+ and Générale d'Images create Multithématiques". Les Echos (in French). November 29, 1995.
- ↑ "Bound for Brazil". Variety. 13 November 2000. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ↑ "Multiterritory bow for MultiThematique". Variety. 18 December 2001. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in French)