Canal
Canal in France is a nation-wide to be received, publicly traded, pay-TV broadcaster based in Issy -les -Moulineaux, Hauts -de -Seine department. It belongs to the Canal Group, which in turn is 100 - percent subsidiary of the media group Vivendi.
Program
Like almost all pay-TV broadcaster Canal radiates relatively recent movies several times over a period of two months. It is striking that almost all foreign films are thereby shown alternately in French dubbed version or the original with subtitles. In addition to movies and sports including series and documentaries for fixed program component of Canal .
The transmitter emits, among others since 1988, the mission of Les Guignols de l' info (Eng. The Puppet Theatre of messages) and some other items from Uncoded. At the same time the transmitter financed many movies and professional football. This is particularly evident in French films, in their bias often " avec la participation de Canal " can be read (in collaboration with Canal ). The co- financing is not entirely altruistic, since movies and sports to the main draws of Canal are. Internationally, Canal involved under the name STUDIO CANAL (formerly Le Studio Canal ) of movies. The Canal group, is part of the media conglomerate Vivendi Universal.
History
1984 launched the Groupe Canal to the working on analogue terrestrial based pay-TV channel Canal , which is one of the oldest pay-TV channels in Europe. In 2007, together with his working on a digital basis offshoot Canal Le Bouquet had approximately 4.5 million subscribers for all means of transmission (terrestrial, cable, satellite and DSL). It is characteristic that the main program is nearly to receive nationwide via the normal house antenna.
Mid-1988 's Canal Plus in France, with around two million subscribers of the largest pay - TV provider and is funded primarily from the subscriber fees ( Price 1988: approximately 44.50 monthly DM). Around 25 percent of the revenue needed to Canal Plus in favor of French film production spend ( broadcasting rights or as a co-producer ). In return, Canal Plus was allowed to broadcast movies from all other television stations.
Since the mid- nineties operates Canal digital bouquet Canal Satellite. The then-new digital technology brought Canal for the first time a pay-TV competitors, the platform TPS, Television par Satellite ( German television via satellite).
In 1991, Canal was, together with Bertelsmann, the initiator of the emerged on the channel Tele Club channel Premiere. The analog decoder used by Premiere from this period was "white key " with the Canal was identical, striking the man they had to put into the decoder to decode the program.
Even before that Canal had begun to expand: From FilmNet Canal Benelux was and Canal Scandinavia, it emerged Canal channels in Spain and Belgium ( in Spain and the French- speaking part of Belgium also on home antenna). In Poland, the Canal channels are distributed through the platform nc .
Many of these channels have now been sold and often renamed to Canal in Belgium is now called PRIME ( in Flanders ) or BeTV ( in Wallonia ), in the Netherlands the names of the channels now MOVIE 1 and SPORT 1 and in Spain, the analog free-TV channel Cuatro replaced the terrestrial program.
Criticism
In severe criticism of the channel came when he falsified 2005 video recordings of the Paris riots in 2005 on November 6. Rioters apparently North African origin called loudly, " Sarkozy, sale Juif " ( " Sarkozy, dirty Jew " ), this was by subtitle as " Sarkozy fasciste " played. They threw Canal consideration for a covered by the government, anti-Semitic attitude of broad social layers, in particular the French Muslims before.