Six months on from the Groupe Canal+ takeover, the question is: what kind of company is MultiChoice Group now?

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 ...

Christophe Pinard-Legry has been named CEO of Canal+ Europe. The exec will also join Canal+’s board alongside Canal+ Africa ...

MultiChoice has frozen DStv subscription prices in 2026, introduced affordability measures, and is restructuring content ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition, MultiChoice increased its annual payment to ANN7 from R50-million to R141-million. The payments came after the ...

MultiChoice freezes DStv subscription prices for 2026, introduces bill-splitting on MyDStv app, and migrates Showmax content ...

Canal+ said it secured ownership of about 94% of South Africa’s MultiChoice Group, which it valued at around $3.2 billion, and that it would go ahead with plans to pursue a secondary listing in ...

No fewer than 31 workers engaged in customer outreach services for MultiChoice Group in Abuja have alleged abrupt termination of their appointments without prior notice. The affected workers, who ...

Showmax shuts down as a standalone service on 30 April 2026.Local hits move to higher-priced DStv Stream tiers.Canal+ ...