{"id":2041343,"date":"2025-09-22T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041343"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:14:11","slug":"frances-canal-completes-2-billion-takeover-of-south-african-pay-tv-group-multichoice-announces-new-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/frances-canal-completes-2-billion-takeover-of-south-african-pay-tv-group-multichoice-announces-new-board\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Canal+ Completes $2 Billion Takeover of South African Pay TV Group MultiChoice, Announces New Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Canal+ Group, the French media giant behind \u201cPaddington,\u201d has completed its long-gestating $2 billion takeover of South African pay TV company <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0945859\/\">Multichoice<\/a> and announced its new board.<\/p>\n<p>The takeover makes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0028557\/\">Canal+<\/a> the dominant player in Africa\u2019s fast-growing pay TV market, where <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0945859\/\">MultiChoice<\/a> operates across 50 countries. It also marks a monumental step in Canal+\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1105485\/\">McG<\/a> by Canal+ is the largest transaction ever undertaken by Canal+, bolstering the combined new group\u2019s ambition to be a major global media player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks an important step forward for Canal+, as we begin to integrate MultiChoice to create a group with enhanced scale,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canal+ Group, the French media giant behind \u201cPaddington,\u201d has completed its long-gestating $2 billion takeover of South African pay TV company Multichoice and announced its new board. The takeover makes Canal+ the dominant player in Africa\u2019s fast-growing pay TV market, where MultiChoice operates across 50 countries. It also marks a monumental step in Canal+\u2019s strategy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2041343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Frances-Canal-Completes-2-Billion-Takeover-of-South-African-Pay.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}