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Hit by Industry Protests, France’s Canal Plus Halts Free Offer During Lockdown

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French pay TV service Canal Plus made headlines on March 16 when it announced it would be free for two weeks during the country’s lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, but four days later, the company said it had to stop the special offer.

Several industry sources told Variety Canal Plus was urged to go back to being a pay TV group because the free offer disrupted the country’s window policy and the chain of rights.

Indeed, the current policy sets the window for pay TV at four months and the one for free-to-air channels at 22 months. But for the last four days, Canal Plus has been freely showing movies that have been bought by free-to-air channels such as TF1 and M6 and were supposed to air in 22 months.

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