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Canal+ Group is the leading pay-TV Group in France. It is the leader in production of premium and specialized channels and numbers 12.5 million subscriptions to its offerings. A pioneer in the new uses of television, the Group is also a benchmark player in film production and distribution.

www.canalplusgroupe.com

« Les Chaînes Canal+ »

Channels for every taste with « Les chaînes Canal+ »

“Les Chaînes Canal+” offers five premium-content channels, each with its own editorial line and identity: Canal+, Canal+Cinéma, Canal+Sport, Canal+Family and Canal+Décalé. Canal+ holds exclusive first-release rights with several major American studios including Twentieth Century Fox, NBC Universal, Sony/Columbia and DreamWorks.

Canal+ is a premium generalist channel that offers recent films on an exclusive basis, sports, news, American cult series, French fiction, documentaries and entertainment.

Canal+ has developed widely-recognized expertise in sports coverage. Les Chaînes Canal+ cover some sixty of France’s top sports events: League 1 soccer, the major foreign championships, the Champions League, and also the rugby Top 14, Southern-hemisphere rugby, tennis (including Wimbledon), golf (Vivendi Trophy), boxing, and athletics.

TPS Star completes Canal+’s premium offering, carrying mainly movies, sports, series and magazines.

Canal+ Group also publishes a range of approximately 20 channels covering the most popular themes: films (CinéCinéma channels), sports (Sport+, InfoSport), news (i>Télé), documentaries (Planète channels), lifestyle (Cuisine TV, Seasons), series (Jimmy, Comédie!), and youth (Piwi, Télétoon).

CanalSat

CanalSat: the leading multi-channel offering in France

CanalSat is the leading multichannel offering in France and offers 300 channels and services, including 55 channels exclusive to CanalSat.

CanalSat is available via satellite, via ADSL and TNT in the form of a "mini-package", and via catch-up TV.

At the leading edge of new uses of television

The leading pay-TV channel in France and a digital pioneer in Europe, Canal+ Group is the leader in new uses of television. It is at the leading edge of television on demand via its catch-up TV offerings, Canal+ and CanalSat on demand, as well as of multi-screen video distribution. It also operates the first legal downloading service in France, CanalPlay.

A precursor of HD via satellite in France, Canal+ Group has the most complete and diversified HD offering with 16 channels. HD offerings are also available on cable, ADSL and DTT.

Canal+/CanalSat on demand let subscribers watch or replay their programs when they want. This new catch-up TV service, included in the subscription, is available directly on the television set via satellite or ADSL and on PC. It logged 20 million viewings in 2009.

CanalPlay is Canal+ Group’s legal video downloading service. Available on PC and television via cable or ADSL, CanalPlay offers close to 7,500 titles. At the end of 2009, CanalPlay had passed the bar of 15 million downloads since its launch.

CanalSat, the leading multichannel offering

CanalSat is the leading multichannel offering in France with some 300 channels, 55 of them exclusive. CanalSat is available via satellite, ADSL, DTT and catch-up TV.

The Canal+ Group internationally

Canal Overseas, a fully-owned subsidiary of Canal+ Group, is Canal+ and CanalSat’s operator in Poland, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Oceania-South Pacific region and Vietnam. Canal Overseas also publishes the Canal+ channel for Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb. Canal+ Poland publishes some twenty premium and thematic channels. Canal Overseas’ bundles are marketed in more than 40 countries.

Canal+ Group is a television leader in Poland through its subsidiary Cyfra+ – a 75% owned subsidiary –, which provides a bundle of more than 100 television and radio channels, 63 in Polish. At year-end 2009, Cyfra+ had more than 1.5 million subscribers.

StudioCanal, a major player in European cinema

StudioCanal, a fully-owned subsidiary of Canal+ Group, is Europe’s leader in production, acquisition and distribution of motion pictures on all media: theater, video, audiovisual, and video on demand. The company exploits an extensive film library with more than 5,000 French, British, and American titles, including Basic Instinct, Les Bronzés, The Pianist, and Podium. Each year, StudioCanal distributes fifteen films in theaters and 150 in video.

Outside France, StudioCanal operates directly in the two other largest European markets – the UK (through its subsidiary Optimum Releasing) and Germany (through its subsidiary Kinowelt).

Stronger presence in the sport world

Canal+ Group became involved in organizing sports events through its subsidiary Canal+ Events, acquired in 2008. Canal+ Events organizes such events as the Lyon (France) tennis Grand Prix, the Masters tennis tournament France, the Lyon marathon, the Vivendi Golf Trophy (France) and the VIP operations for the French Open at Roland-Garros.

It became a recognized international player after acquiring and marketing the international distribution rights for the French League 1 and League 2 and League Soccer Championships, and more recently for rugby with the Top 14, OM TV, the French basketball team and the French basketball championship. It distributes these products on all continents.

In figures (2009)

• 12.5 million subscriptions to its offerings
• Canal+ broadcast over 400 films each month
• $152 million devoted to the acquisition of original French-language films
• 5,000 hours of sports coverage broadcasted, mostly live

Management

Bertrand Meheut
Chairman of the Executive Board

Rodolphe Belmer
Executive Vice President, Content

Olivier Courson
Chairman of STUDIOCANAL

Emmanuel Florent
Vice President, Strategy

Laurence Gallot
Vice President, Communications

Joseph Guégan
Executive Vice President, Technology and Information Systems

Sophie Guieysse
Vice President, Human Resources

Guy Lafarge
Executive Vice President, Distribution

Frédéric Mion
General Counsel

Maxime Saada
Executive Vice President, Sales

Jean-Noël Tronc
Chairman of CANALOVERSEAS

Julien Verley
Chief Financial Officer

Up date : 2010/05/10