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Canal Plus Completes Acquisition Of TPS

By JJ McCoy | January 9, 2007

French pay-TV operator Canal Plus has finalized a deal to acquire its direct-to-home (DTH) rival TPS and create a new platform, Canal Plus France.

The merger reportedly makes Canal Plus the second largest DTH operator in Europe behind BSkyB. Canal Plus France has nearly 5 five million satellite pay-TV subscribers, roughly 1 million subscribers ahead of Sky Italia.

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