On October 13 2009, the First Pan-European Opera and Culture HD channel BravaHDTV will be added to the HD-packages of the French digital satellite and DSL pay television service CANALSAT. It is the latest addition to BravaHDTV’s European footprint, which includes already France (Numericable), Holland, Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Portugal and very soon in Spain, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Scandinavia.              

Placed in Europe through NOA Productions, BravaHDTV will join the CANALSAT offer in the ‘Music’ section on number 150 and in the ‘HD’ section on number 190. BravaHDTV welcomes its new French audience with an attractive opening night on October 13th. Viewers of CanalSat can watch a sensational French opera production of the composer Jean Philippe Rameau with French orchestra, French conductor and a cast of mainly French singers. In addition BravaHDTV will broadcast the festive opening concert of the famous Carnegie Hall of 2006.

CanalSat is a French digital satellite and DSL pay television service owned by Canal+ Group (66%) and Lagardere Active (34%), a subsidiary of Lagardère. CanalSat was founded in 1992 as CanalSatellite. The channels that make up the CanalSat France packages broadcast from the Astra 19.2°E satellite position, using the Astra 1H, Astra 1L, and Astra 1M satellites.

Canal+ Group is the leader in pay-TV in France with more than 10.5 million subscriptions to a wide range of offers including Canal+, CanalSat and the former TPS, present in all networks, at home or on-the-go, in order to reach all customers, whatever their way of watching TV and whenever they are.