Canal Plus
| Canal+ | |
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| Launched | 4 November 1984 |
| Network | Canal+ Group |
| Owned by | Vivendi |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 2.8% (2013, Médiamétrie) |
| Slogan |
(French) Créateur et original depuis 1984 (Creator and original since 1984) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| TNT | Channel 4 (HD) |
| Satellite | |
| Canalsat | Channels 4 & 9 (SD/HD) Channel 503 (HD) Channels 703 & 710 (SD) |
| IPTV | |
| Canalsat | Channel 4 & 9 (SD/HD) Channel 503 (HD) |
Canal+ ("Canal Plus", "C+", French pronunciation: [kanalˈplys], meaning "Channel Plus/More") is a French premium cable television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted. Unencrypted programming can be viewed free of charge on Canal+ and on satellite on Canal+ Clair (Clear).
Canal+ is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik), which promotes and establishes an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.
After the announcement about the launch of the fourth French television channel, Canal+ started broadcasting on 4 November 1984. In 1986, the channel had one million subscribers. It has produced numerous films of auteurs, including David Lynch's The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr., and Inland Empire.
With the launch of the digital satellite channel CanalSatellite on 27 April 1996, Canal+ received two new sister channels: Canal+ Jaune and Canal+ Bleu. A fourth channel, called Canal+ Vert came along on 31 August 1998. The channels changed their names to Canal+ Confort (now known as Canal+ Décalé since 2005), Canal+ Cinéma and Canal+ Sport in 1 November 2003.
In September 2005, Canal+, Canal+ Cinéma and Canal+ Sport started broadcasting in the French digital terrestrial television network. The free-to-air parts of Canal+ had already been broadcasting for a few months by then. In August 2008, Canal+ started broadcasting the encrypted parts of its main channel in high-definition in the terrestrial network. Canal+ announced plans to turn off the analogue terrestrial signals by 2010.
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