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90% -- pay tv market share for Canal+, MultiChoice and StarTimes combined (2025)
Canal+, MultiChoice, and StarTimes combined control roughly 90% of Africa's pay-TV business.
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90%
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Data Vintage
2025
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60
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20
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30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
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Digital TV Research
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https://www.billionaires.africa/2025/09/22/canal-plus-vincent-bollore-multichoice-2-billion-deal/ ↗
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Canal+ moves ahead with $2 billion MultiChoice deal
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Groupe Canal+ S.A. (Canal+), the media arm of Vivendi and part of French billionaire Vincent Bollore’s Bollore Group, said Monday that all conditions tied to its R35 billion ($2.02 billion) offer for MultiChoice have been met, making the transaction unconditional.
The deal gives Ca…
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Approximate combined control of Africa's pay-TV business, attributed to Digital TV Research; approximate figure ("roughly")
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Canal+, MultiChoice and StarTimes combined: 90% pay tv market share. Source: Digital TV Research (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/africa-pay-tv-market-share-canal-multichoice
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/africa-pay-tv-market-share-canal-multichoice" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>90%</strong> -- pay tv market share for Canal+, MultiChoice and StarTimes combined<br><small>Source: Digital TV Research (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/africa-pay-tv-market-share-canal-multichoice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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