Ciné+
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| Country | France |
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| Broadcast area | France |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | French |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Canal+ Thématiques |
| History | |
| Launched | January 7, 1991 (33 years, 178 days) |
| Closed | July 3, 2024 |
| Replaced by | Ciné+ OCS |
| Former names | CinéCinémas (1991–2002) CinéCinéma (2002–2011) |
| Links | |
| Website | Ciné+ |
Ciné+ (formerly known as CinéCinémas and later CinéCinéma) is a French thematic pay television channels broadcasting movies. They are published by the Canal+ Thématiques and are distributed by the Canal+ satellite TV as well as cable and ADSL providers. Channels broadcast all foreign films in their original language on a secondary audio channel with two subtitling tracks in French, one for translation from a foreign language and the other for the hearing impaired.
The six channels as of 2023 are:[1]
- Ciné+ Premier[clarification needed]
- Ciné+ Frisson, horror and action films
- Ciné+ Émotion, romance films
- Ciné+ Famiz, animated films
- Ciné+ Club, world cinema
- Ciné+ Classic, films from the 1930s through the 1970s
Ciné+ comprised seven channels until 30 August 2013, when Ciné+ Star was discontinued.[2][3][4]
History[edit]
On January 7, 1992 , Canal+ along with Ellipse Cable had announced that they launched a new cinema channel on cable television, which was called CinéCinémas. It was originally only broadcasted on Cable until 1992 where it launched on CanalSatellite. In 1996, CinéCinemas announced that they've launched two channels which were named CinéCinémas Prime and CinéCinémas Seconde.
On September 14, 2002, it was announced that CinéCinemas was being renamed to CinéCinéma along with their two channels being which were also being renamed CinéCinéma Premier and CinéCinéma Émotion respectively with CinéCinema launching four new channels which were CinéCinéma Frisson, CinéCinéma Auteur, CinéCinéma Succès and CinéCinéma Classic.
On May 17, 2011, Canal+ announced that CinéCinema was being renamed to Cine+ along with the channels being renamed as well in order to add a link with the group's main cable television channel, Canal+ by adopting the network's branding into Cine+. Thus, the six channels became: Ciné+ Premier, Ciné+ Frisson, Ciné+ Émotion, Ciné+ Famiz, Ciné+ Star, Ciné+ Club and Ciné+ Classic.
In April 2018, Cine+ announced that they launched two channels that are only available on Canal+'s exclusive streaming services MyCanal and Canal a la Demande which were Ciné+ Western and Ciné+ Horreur.[5]
In September 2018 after the success of their first two streaming channels on MyCanal and Canal+ a La Demande, Canal+ announced that they had launched two new steaming channels named Ciné+ British and Ciné+ de Quariter.[6]
In May 2024 after Groupe Canal+'s acquisition of the OCS pay-tv service and its production arm Orange Studio was completed in January of that year, Canal+ had announced that their restructuring their movies and drama offerings along with the rebranding Ciné+ by merging OCS into the former by creating the new on demand merged service named Ciné+ OCS.[7]
Current channels[edit]
Ciné+ Premier[edit]
On Janaury 7 1991, Ellipse Cable launched CinéCinemas which focused on recent movies and had a monthly subscription service was 66 francs, and CinéCinéfil which was dedicated to cinema classics from the 1930s to the 1960s, whose monthly subscription was 46 francs. The films on the two channels were recent and originally broadcasted as a second exclusive on television (after Canal+, but before launching on free national channels) and very often in the original English version and with French subtitles. It primarily targets all cinema lovers. Every day, documentaries about the cinema and portraits of actors complete the film offering.[8]
This channel was reformatted to movie premieres and recent films on September 3, 1998 with CinéCinemas rebranded as CinéCinémas 1. On September 14 2002, when CinéCinémas changed their name to CinéCinéma, their channel CinéCinémas 1 was rebranded and renamed to CinéCinéma Premier and was after the service.
Ciné+ Frisson[edit]
In April 1996 after when CanalSatalie switched their broadcasting services to digital broadcasts which made possible to multiply channels under one hour, MultiThématiques announced that they created two themed channels to the CinéCinémas brand which were CinéCinemas Prime and CinéCinémas Seconde.
Ciné+ Famiz[edit]
On September 15 2002, CinéCinémas, the cinema television network of MultiThématiques announced thay they were being remodeled by renaming themselves to CinéCinéma and launched three new channels including CinéCinéma Succès, a channel dedicated to great cinema, with films with cult phrases along with scenes with cinema specialist Denis Parent.
Two years later on August 28 2004, CinéCinéma announced that they've rebranding the channel to CinéCinéma Famiz with the channels focus being changed to childrens and family films.
Cine+ Club[edit]
Cine+ Club was founded on August 23 1999 by TPS under the name Cinéfaz and became the forth channel in the TPS channel bouquet.
On September 12 2002, when MultiThematiques announced that their cinema operation CinéCinémas were being rebranded and remodeled they launched and created CinéCinéma Auteur along with three new channels.
When TPS Premium was launched on September 1 2003, Cinéfaz announced that they changed their name to TPS Cinéculte.
On March 21 2007 after when TPS merged with its competetor CanalSat in 2006 and after the two companies merge their television distribution packages along with TPS branded movie channels being merged into Canal+'s owned CinéCinéma package, TPS Cinéculte was merged into CinéCinéma Auteur and as a result the latter channel was being renamed under the new name called CinéCinéma Culte. However one year later on October 1 2008, when CinéCinéma was being rebranded again, CinéCinéma Culte announced that the channel was being renamed again this time to CinéCinéma Club.
References[edit]
- ^ "RAT + : l'offre CANAL + avec Netflix, Disney +, OCS et Paramount + pour moins de 20 euros". Ouest-France (in French). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ Schmitt, Fabienne (10 June 2013). "CanalSat contraint de partager ses chaînes cinéma avec ses concurrents" [CanalSat forced to share its cinema channels with its competitors]. Les Echos (in French).
- ^ Whittock, Jesse (11 June 2013). "Ruling opens Canal+ channels to web rivals". TBI Vision. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
Previously the seven channels – Ciné+ Premier, Frisson, Emotion, Famiz, Classic, Club and Star were only available to cable operator Numericable as a third party provider.
- ^ Soares, Damien (7 September 2013). "Nouvelle mémorisation CanalSat le 10 septembre". Planète CSAT (in French). Retrieved 5 September 2023.
transl. Some channels will see their number change due to these launches. Especially since certain numbers have freed up following the shutdown of the following channels: CINE STAR, ESPN CLASSIC and ESPN AMERICA.
- ^ Oliver, Julian (27 July 2018). "Two exclusive channels launch on MyCanal". Broadband TV News. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Ciné+ British & Ciné+ de quartier arrivent sur MyCanal". Canal+. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ Thomson, Stuart (13 May 2024). "Canal+ to launch new Ciné+ OCS offering". Digital TV Europe. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "ENTRETIEN CANAL JIMMY DANS LA BATAILLE DU CÂBLE Michel Thoulouze entre en résistance contre les chaînes américaines". Le Monde. 19 September 1993. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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