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

MultiChoice is heading for a major staff shake-up after the Canal+ takeover, with a three-year retrenchment moratorium likely delaying deeper job cuts rather than preventing them.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...