France’s Canal+ has upped a buyout offer for African TV and streaming giant MultiChoice to around $1.77B. Vivendi-owned Canal+ is already MultiChoice’s biggest single shareholder, and last month had ...

DStv owner Canal+ has shed approximately 10% of MultiChoice’s South African staff through a voluntary severance programme ...

World Cup bundles for new DStv and GOtv customers. The deals take effect from Monday, 1 June 2026. Under the promotion, new DStv subscribers can buy an HD decoder, a dish kit and ...

French Canal+ Group’s operation to take full control of African media and entertainment giant MultiChoice appears to be moving forward with both parties announcing they had finalized the terms of a ...

MultiChoice has been taking pirate streamers to task for several years, but its efforts intensified in 2024, when it, along ...

France's Group Canal+ moved quickly on Monday to stamp its authority on MultiChoice Group following the conclusion of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over almost three decades, MultiChoice has become Africa’s undisputed leader in video entertainment. The company both aggregates ...

But the pay-TV giant's top goal remains serving core African audiences, with nine of the 10 most watched shows on streamer Showmax now being local and 'House of the Dragon' the big exception. By Georg ...

Canal+ has committed to “double down” on local African content made with big budgets like Shaka iLembe as its $2B acquisition of South African giant MultiChoice closes, with CEO Maxime Saada today ...

Canal+’s long-running takeover of African content giant MultiChoice has moved a step closer. The South African Competition Tribunal has approved the deal, subject to “agreed conditions,” which include ...

MultiChoice launched Showmax across Africa 11 years ago in August 2015 to compete with the advent of streamers like Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney+ and others which all became ...