22 September 2025 marked a historic moment for Africa’s broadcasting industry. French entertainment giant CANAL+ announced that its mandatory takeover offer for the shares of MultiChoice Group it did not already own has become unconditional, with all regulatory approvals secured. The deal gives CANAL+ effective control of MultiChoice, Africa’s largest pay-TV operator, and sets the stage for the integration of the two companies. Together, they will serve more than 40 million subscribers across nearly 70 countries, creating one of the world’s largest media and entertainment groups. The Road to Effective Control CANAL+ has steadily built its stake in MultiChoice, the…
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Vincent Bolloré, born in 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, inherited and transformed his family’s modest paper-manufacturing business into a sprawling, multinational conglomerate. Under his leadership, Bolloré Group expanded into diverse sectors, from logistics and media to energy and plantations, marking a strategic pivot from traditional industry to global influence A media powerhouse Media and communications have become central to Bolloré’s empire, with the group holding substantial stakes in major media and entertainment firms, including Universal Music Group (18.5%), Canal+ (30.4%), Havas (30.4%), Vivendi (27.6%), and Louis Hachette Group (30.4%). These holdings position Bolloré as a key figure in shaping global media…
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Ugandans will determine whether French media giant Groupe Canal+ effectively completes the takeover of South Africa’s MultiChoice and GOTV in Uganda. The move is part of a larger acquisition in more than 50 countries. In a notice on Tuesday, broadcast regulator, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), noted that Groupe Canal+ had applied for the transfer of shares for the control of MultiChoice subsidiaries in Uganda. This followed the completion of a $3 billion deal in July to acquire 100% of MultiChoice Group, the parent company of DStv and GOtv in Uganda. The move marks the latest step in a transaction that…
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Pay television company MultiChoice Uganda, which operates DStv and GOtv, will adjust its package prices, effective August 1. The adjustment, MultiChoice said in a notice, were occasioned by economic pressures…
Pay television service providers lost at least 31.9% subscribers in the 12 months to December 2024, according to the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Market Performance Report. The loss is contained in four UCC Market Performance Reports, all of which registered a decline in subscriber numbers with the worst drop recorded in the three months to September 2022. The data was collected in over four quarters between January and December 2024. The 31.9% drop, according to UCC data, translates to an aggregate loss of 470,000 subscribers, which signals an increasing difficult operating environment for pay television service providers and the…
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Colin Asiimwe is back at MultiChoice Uganda as the Head of Marketing, overseeing the DStv, GOtv, Showmax, and Pearl Magic brands. Asiimwe previously worked with MultiChoice before leaving the business….
Pay television platform – DStv – is losing at least UGX2.7 billion due to illegal reproduction of its exclusive content by third parties through internet live streaming. An investigation by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), which followed a formal complaint by MultiChoice Uganda found that residential and commercial piracy had led to enormous financial bleeding with DStv, as one of the its affected platforms losing at least UGX 2.74 billion per year. DStv, a direct broadcast satellite television service, is owned by MultiChoice. The company also owns GOtv. Thus, UCC has instituted a multi-agency probe that is seeking to find…
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Most TV stations in Uganda aim to serve Ugandans in the country, with international audiences reached through digital platforms. However, Signet’s limitations force TV station owners to get hybrid licenses to reach their intended audience.
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It’s Matchday 2 action from the UEFA Champions League, with matches scheduled to run from Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 September 2021. DStv and GOtv is the only true home of football in Africa, offering a range and depth of action that no other rival can match – it’s literally ‘Unbeatable Football’! If you’re going to spend your money on something, it may as well be on the best football in the world. Tuesday opens with Ajax hosting Besiktas and Italian champions Internazionale away to Shakhtar Donetsk in the early evening, but the pick of the games comes from Parc…
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Viewers on DStv can look forward to seeing Nigerian outside linebacker Julian Okwara in National Football League (NFL) action as ESPN 2 features live action from the Regular Season today. DStv is your home of the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Born in London, but raised in Lagos, Okwara and his family moved to the United States when he was just a boy. He went on to attend Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, North Carolina and then the renowned University of Notre Dame to play college football from 2016 to 2019. In 2020, he was selected in the third…
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