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Canal Web
CanalWeb, founded in Paris in July 1998 by Jacques Rosselin, is an internet television
network featuring highly specialised channels and programmes. With a staff of 120 and four
webcasting studios, CanalWeb offers 65 hours of live broadcasts each week and 7,000
hours of archived programs, available on-demand at any time and from anywhere.
With more than a hundred weekly programs (70% thematic, 20% general, 10% free access)
and the raising of 130 million FF in May 2000 with the help of new foreign investors,
CanalWeb has established its position as the French and European leader in internet
televison, and is expanding the range of its business in a number of sectors:
CanalWebCast - A webcast platform producing and distributing interactive television
content and managing affiliated distributors. CanalWeb has its own studios where each
week over 100 programs of 30 to 60 minutes each are produced or co-produced, and
provides a variety of outside webcasting services.
CanalWeb Corporate - CanalWeb has also developed (with the IEC Professional Media) a
business-to-business model for internet television.
Hyperthematic Programme Catalogue - The CanalWeb library currently holds over
7000 hours of programs, available for international distribution. The archive is regularly
enriched with new programs produced or co-produced by CanalWeb.net. These highly
targeted programs correspond to market needs that the economics, audience requirements
and programming of traditional broadcasters cannot satisfy.
International Affiliates - CanalWeb is now opening affiliates in Barcelona (with
Ovideo/Barcelona TeleVision), Berlin and London which will allow the production of thematic
programs in the four principal European languages.
Regional Partnerships - CanalWeb has joined forces with five partners from the French
regional press (Groupe Sud-Ouest, Le Telegramme, La Nouvelle Republique, La Depeche et
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui) to create TVWebRegions, the first network of local television on
the internet.
Television - Finally, in September 2000 CanalWeb was granted the right to broadcast a
selection of its programmes on cable and satellite by the CSA (the French broadcasting
authority) .
Additional information about Canal Web can be found at canalweb.net.
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