Canal+ Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (trade name: Canal+ Benelux & Central Europe) is a Luxembourg-based television provider owned by the French media conglomerate Canal+ it was knows before as M7 and M7 Group.
It operates several direct broadcast satellite pay TV platforms: Canal+ Austria in Austria, Télésat in Belgium and Luxembourg, TV Vlaanderen in the Flanders region in Belgium, Skylink in Czech Republic and Slovakia, Direct One in Hungary, Canal Digitaal, Canal+ (ott/streaming) and Online.nl in the Netherlands, and Focus Sat in Romania. It also operates a terrestrial pay television platform in Flanders, Belgium, and offers B2B multimedia services.
Groupe Canal+ bought the company in 2019, and Canal+ Benelux & Central Europe has been rebranding some of its services as Canal+ since January 29, 2024.
History
The private equity firm Astorg acquired a majority of the company in July 2014 for €350 million[2] via its Fund V from Providence and Airbridge Investments.[3]