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Canal Plus Group (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi Universal has sold some parts of Canal Plus to private investors which are still using the name of Canal Plus. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the vicinity of Paris. Jump to: navigation, search November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for sequential colour with memory) is an analog color television system first used in France. ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC... Jump to: navigation, search Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Issy-les-Moulineaux, is a city in the département of Hauts-des-Seine in the southwestern suburban Paris, France. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

In the Netherlands, France and Spain the flagship product is a television channel, Canal+. The channel is encrypted for most of the day; viewers who wish to watch the channel's more popular programming (new-release movies and live sport) must subscribe to the service. Previously this involved the hire of a decoder to decrypt the signal, but increasingly Canal+ is being offered as part of a multi-channel satellite or cable television package (known as CanalSat (previously Canal Satellite) in France and Digital+ in Spain).

Canal Plus came to the Nordic countries in 1997, aquiring the two FilmNet-channels and renaming them. The Nordic part was sold in October 2003 and the Canal+ brand is since then used with license.

Canal+ Spain

Canal+ Spain will become a full time encrypted channel in Spain in November. It will move to subscription based satellite tv Digital Plus. Cuatro ("four" in Spanish) a new free-to-air station from Sogecable will be available in the former canal+ frequencies in terrestrial (both digital and analogue) this Autum. Cuatro TV logo. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... Founded in 1989, Sogecable is Spains leading pay television group, and third in Europe, and pioneer in introducing digital television and interactive services in the Spanish communications market. ...

The channel's owners was asking the Spanish government to change the broadcasting license conditions from a partially encrypted station into a 24 hour FTA channel. The council of ministers officially gave its permission in July 29th, 2005; This move is intended to help boost Sogecable revenues from advertising. Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Founded in 1989, Sogecable is Spains leading pay television group, and third in Europe, and pioneer in introducing digital television and interactive services in the Spanish communications market. ...

Corporate divisions

• StudioCanal, a feature film production house
• CanalSat (formerly Canal Satellite Numérique), a pay satellite and ADSL television distributor (as CanalSAT DSL).

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Shows include

• Les Guignols de l'Info
• various shows taking place in the fictional country Groland

PPD (modeled on Patrick Poivre dArvor) is the resident news anchor of the guignols. ... Some French viewers use this emblem as a rear car tag, as if their car was registered in Groland. ...

External Links

• Canal Plus France (in French)
• Canal Plus Netherlands (in Dutch)
• Canal Plus Spain (in Spanish)
• Canal Sat (in French)