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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- 50 rue Camille Desmoulins, 92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux , France
- Language
- French
- Picture format
- 2160p UHDTV , (downscaled to 1080i and 576i for the HD and SD feeds respectively)
- Owner
- Canal+
- Launched
- 1983 ; 43 years ago ( 1983 ) (company), 4 November 1984 ; 41 years ago ( 1984-11-04 ) (channel)
- Founder
- Léo Scheer, André Rousselet , Pierre Lescure
- Website
- canalplus.com/canal+
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television station
- Has part
- Canal+ Action
- Citizenship
- France
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Owned by
- Vivendi
- Parent organization
- Canal+
- Subsidiary
- Cyfra+
- Official website
- canalplus.com
- Motto
- Canal+, Demandez plus a la télé
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- inception
- 1984-11-04
- language used
- French
- Commons category
- Canal+
- topic's main category
- Category:Canal+
- nominated for
- International Emmy Award for best drama series
- channel number
- 4
- P6413
- Canal+
- social media followers
- 1510000
- shortened URL formatter
- can.al/$1
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Encyclopedic overview
Canal+ ( French: [kanal plys], meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by Canal+. The channel was launched in Paris and Issy-les-Moulineaux on 4 November 1984, and broadcasts to Metropolitan France. It broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted, but some unencrypted content can be viewed free of charge.
Canal+ was co-founded by André Rousselet and Pierre Lescure. An early pioneer was Alain de Greef [fr], who joined in 1986.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canal+” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.