The Canal + Group controls Canal + France, which benefits from the TPS / Canalsat merger that took place in 2008. In 2007, Canalsat was wholly owned by the Canal + Group, itselfĬontrolled by Vivendi and operates, for its distribution, the Astra satellites at 19.2 degrees East. The operator was initially launched under the name Canalsatellite in analog version on November 14, 1992, then in digital on April 27, 1996.ĭuring 2006, Canalsat absorbed its direct competitor TPS and the two offers merged under the name "New Canalsat" as part of a commercial and business agreement. The R2 unit includes the technical maintenance and sales assets of Mediaset’s pay-TV subsidiary Premium and the transaction is part of a wider commercial deal between Mediaset and Sky signed nearly a year ago that gave the latter’s satellite customers access to Premium’s cinema and TV series channels at no additional cost and allowed Sky to launch a pay-TV service via DTT.Canal +, previously Canal from Canalsat, is a satellite and IP television operator with or without commitment.
It will therefore be determined whether the operation will strengthen Sky’s dominant position in the pay-TV sector and ‘in the market for wholesale access services to the digital terrestrial pay-TV technical platform’. Mediaset Premium’s digital terrestrial technical platform, which in the past was substantially Sky’s only competitor in the pay-TV market.” The Authority intends to assess “the possible competitive effects of the acquisition by Sky, the dominant operator in the pay-TV market, of R2, i.e. (Mediaset Premium’s pay operation branch) by Sky Italia S.r.l. The Antitrust Authority focuses its attention on the Sky-Mediaset Premium transaction, initiating an investigation procedure “aimed at assessing the concentration transaction consisting in the acquisition of control of the company R2 S.r.l. Italy’s antitrust watchdog AGCM has opened an investigation into Sky Italia’s acquisition of the R2 unit of commercial broadcaster Mediaset.
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